The Coal and Other Mines (Locomotives) Order 1956

5.—(1) Every locomotive shall be provided with—

(a) brakes which can (whether or not any other device for applying them is fitted) be applied by the driver by direct mechanical action;

(b) means for applying sand to the rails;

(c) means for giving adequate audible warnings;

(d) a suitable portable fire extinguisher;

(e) a seat for the driver;

(f) controls so placed that the driver can simultaneously operate them and see ahead without leaning out of the locomotive; and

(g) a portable lamp.

(2) Every locomotive, other than a locomotive which cannot develop more than twenty-five horse power and cannot on a level road exceed a speed of eight miles per hour, shall be provided with a combined speed and mileage indicator so placed as to be easily seen by the driver when he is operating the locomotive:

Provided that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to a locomotive which was in use in a mine before the first day of May, nineteen hundred and forty-nine and which has not been provided with such an indicator before the commencement of the Act.

(3) Every locomotive shall be provided with a headlight with an effective range of at least two hundred feet or, in the case of a locomotive which was in use in a mine before the first day of May, nineteen hundred and forty-nine, if an inspector by notice served on the manager of the mine consents thereto, such a headlight as that with which it was equipped at that date.