The objective of this Standard is to provide purchasers and suppliers, including owners, operators, designers and manufacturers of railway rail with requirements for fishplates for use with rails in accordance with AS 1085.1 in railway track. Changes to the previous edition are as follows: a) Change of title of the AS 1085 series (previously Railway permanent way material). b) The referenced documents list has been revised. c) Reference to the withdrawn Standards AS 1213 and K1 have been removed. d) The most recent version of the informative Appendix ‘Means of demonstrating compliance with this Standard’ has been included.