Rail Vehicle Accessibility Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

Sleeping accommodation

16.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) a regulated rail vehicle with sleeping accommodation for passengers shall have not less than one wheelchair-compatible sleeping compartment.

(2) If there is more than one regulated rail vehicle with sleeping accommodation for passengers in a a train, there shall be not less than two wheelchair compatible sleeping compartments in the train.

(3) The doorway into a wheelchair-compatible sleeping compartment and the space beside the bed in such a compartment shall be not less than 850 millimetres wide.