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Chapter 86 Railway or tramway locomotives, rolling-stock and parts thereof; railway or tramway track fixtures and fittings and parts thereof; mechanical (including electro-mechanical) traffic signalling equipment of all kinds

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- 1.
  
  This Chapter does not cover
  - Railway or tramway sleepers of wood or of concrete, or concrete guide-track sections for hovertrains (heading 44.06 or 68.10);
  - Railway or tramway track construction material of iron or steel of heading 73.02; or
  - Electrical signalling, safety or traffic control equipment of heading 85.30.
- 2.
  
  Heading 86.07 applies, inter alia , to
  - Axles, wheels, wheel sets (running gear), metal tyres, hoops and hubs and other parts of wheels
  - Frames, underframes, bogies and bissel-bogies
  - Axle boxes; brake gear
  - Buffers for rolling-stock; hooks and other coupling gear and corridor connections
  - Coachwork
- 3.
  
  Subject to the provisions of Note 1 above, heading 86.08 applies, inter alia , to
  - Assembled track, turntables, platform buffers, loading gauges
  - Semaphores, mechanical signal discs, level crossing control gear, signal and point controls, and other mechanical (including electro-mechanical) signalling, safety or traffic control equipment, whether or not fitted for electric lighting, for railways, tramways, roads, inland waterways, parking facilities, port installations or airfields

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