The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Non-Interoperable Rail System) Regulations 2010

Doors

3.—(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), each passenger doorway in the side of a rail vehicle must be indicated clearly by doors which on their exterior contrast with the exterior of the vehicle to each side of the doors (excluding any contrast resulting from a window or control device being set in the doors).

(2) Sub-paragraph (1) does not apply to a rail vehicle operated exclusively on a network where, at all stations or stops, passengers waiting on platforms are separated from the track or way by screens or other barriers which—

(a) obstruct the view of the doors of rail vehicles; or

(b) indicate clearly where the doors of rail vehicles will be once they have stopped for boarding.

(3) Subject to sub-paragraph (4), each passenger doorway in the side of a rail vehicle must be fitted with an audible warning device which must emit warning sounds in accordance with sub-paragraph (5) inside and outside the vehicle in the proximity of each control device for the doorway or, if there is no such control device, adjacent to the doorway.

(4) Sub-paragraph (3) does not apply–

(a) to a passenger doorway which is, at all times when it is capable of being used by a passenger, under the direct supervision of a member of the operator’s staff who is standing adjacent to the doorway;

(b) to a rail vehicle when it is not being used for carriage; or

(c) where a rail vehicle is operated exclusively on a network where, at all stations or stops, passengers waiting on platforms are separated from the track or way by screens or other barriers, if audible warnings of the operation of those screens or barriers, equivalent to those required by sub-paragraph (5), are given at those stations or stops.

(5) Subject to sub-paragraph (6), the audible warning device must—

(a) where the unlocking of all the passenger doors in the side of a rail vehicle is activated by a member of the operator’s staff, emit a distinct sound for a period of not less than 3 seconds commencing when the doors become openable by passengers; and

(b) emit a different distinct sound to that required by paragraph (a) and, where applicable, paragraph 1 of Part 2 of this Schedule, commencing not less than 3 seconds before the door starts to close.

(6) Sub-paragraph (5) (a) need not be complied with if paragraph 1 of Part 2 of this Schedule is complied with instead.

(7) In this paragraph “sound” includes the spoken word.