Vietnam: List of national railway infrastructure

According to Decree No. 46/2018/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, the List of national railway infrastructure includes:

The national railway infrastructure shall include the land area associated with the infrastructure and shall be divided into two types, including:

- The infrastructure associated directly with the train operation;

- The infrastructure not associated directly with the train operation.

The national railway infrastructures associated directly with the train operation are the railway works or railway items or other supporting railway works which serve the train operation, customer service activities and activities in loading and unloading cargos, including:

- The national railways, bridges, culverts, embankments, level crossing, fences separating the national railways and the roads.

- Railway station (the railways built in the station or the roads built in the station for serving the train operation; waiting rooms, warehouses, yards for storing the cargos transported by railway and related directly to train operation; control rooms, equipment rooms where signaling and telecom equipment is installed, platforms, railway roofs, platform crossings, overpasses for station's customers, guard rooms).  

- Depot (is a place where trains are housed for maintenance, repair and other professional procedures are carried out).

- Control rooms at the management centers of national railway transportation.

- Water supply and drainage systems; telecom and signaling systems; electricity supply systems which are associated directly with the train operation.

- Contractors for construction of bridges, roads, national railway signaling systems, national railway signaling installations, bridge watch, tunnel watch and crossing watch posts.

The national railway infrastructures which are not associated directly with the train operation are railway works, railway items or other supporting works which are not associated with the infrastructure specified above, including:

- Internal roads within the railway station, not serving the train operation;

- Station square.

- Warehouses and yards which are not associated directly with the train operation.

- Other service and commercial facilities (for selling products, resting and other services) in the national railway stations.

- Working offices of regulatory agencies in the railway stations.

- Other works and items which are not associated directly with the train operation.

The national railway infrastructures which are associated directly with national defense and security shall be determined in accordance with the law on protection of important works associated with national defense and security.

During the operation process, if it is required to adjust the infrastructure classification between groups, the Prime Minister shall consider approving the adjustments as requested by the Minister of Transport and the Ministry of Finance.

View more details at Decree No. 46/2018/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from March 14, 2018.

-Thao Uyen-

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