UN 0055 Cases, cartridge, empty, with primer RID 2025 (Shortinfo)

This article may only be carried under the provisions of Chapter 3.4 if, as presented for carriage, the package is capable of passing the test in accordance with Test Series 6 (d) of Part I of the Manual of Tests and Criteria as determined by the competent authority.

Substances and articles of Class 1 shall be loaded into closed wagons or closed containers. Articles which, because of their dimensions or their mass, cannot be loaded into closed wagons or closed containers may equally be carried in open wagons or open containers. They shall be covered by sheets. Only wagons fitted with regulation sheet steel spark-guards shall be used for the carriage of substances and articles of divisions 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.5 and 1.6, even when these substances and articles are loaded into large containers. For wagons fitted with a combustible floor, the sheet steel spark-guards shall not be fixed directly to the floor of the wagon. Military consignments of substances and articles of Class 1 which form part of military equipment and of the structure of military material, may also be loaded into open wagons under the following conditions: - consignments shall be accompanied by the competent military authority or, by order of this authority, - means of initiation not having at least two effective protective devices shall be removed, unless the substances and articles are placed in locked military vehicles.

An express parcels package shall not weigh more than 40 kg. Express parcels consignments may be loaded in railway wagons which can simultaneously serve for the carriage of persons, but only up to a limit of 100 kg per wagon.