The Coal and Other Mines (Locomotives) Order 1956 No. 1771

FIRST SCHEDULE THE COAL AND OTHER MINES (LOCOMOTIVES) REGULATIONS, 1956, HAVING EFFECT AS IF MADE UNDER SECTION ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-ONE OF THE MINES AND QUARRIES ACT, 1954

PART V Working and maintenance of locomotives

Drivers of locomotives

21.—(1) In any mine of coal or fireclay no person shall use a locomotive for moving any vehicle otherwise than by hauling from in front, except during shunting operations.

(2) In any mine of stratified ironstone or shale no person shall use a locomotive for moving any vehicle otherwise than by hauling from in front except—

(a) during shunting operations; or

(b) for moving a single vehicle at a place within twelve hundred feet of a working face; or

(c) in a length of road in which a locomotive was used for hauling material before the first day of May, nineteen hundred and forty-nine.

(3) Where in any mine of stratified ironstone or shale any vehicle is moved by a locomotive otherwise than by hauling from in front in pursuance of sub-paragraph (c) of the last preceding paragraph, a white light visible at a distance of two hundred feet shall be attached to the front of the vehicle or, if there is more than one, of the leading vehicle:

Provided that nothing in this paragraph shall apply to any single vehicle so moved within twelve hundred feet of any working face.