Rail Vehicle Accessibility Regulations

Applicability

Regulated Features

• Boarding devices
• Catering
• Doors
• Door controls
• Door handles
• Exterior doorways and through routes
• Interior doorways
• Floors
• Handholds
• Handrails
• Passenger information
• Request-stop controls
• Seats
• Steps
• Toilets
• Transparent surfaces
• Wheelchair spaces

  Key Means

• exterior doors, steps, floors and handrails contrast strongly visually with adjacent areas of the vehicle.
• door handles, door controls and request-stop controls can be used by the widest range of people.
• handrails are provided at doorways, on seat backs and in toilets.
• nominated doorways are accessible to wheelchairs.
• wheelchair spaces and wide throughways to those spaces from the accessible doorways are provided.
• interior glazed panels are clearly marked to aid visibility.
• passenger information is clearly communicated, both visually and audibly.
• toilets are provided that are accessible to disabled people, including wheelchair users.
• seats are nominated that are accessible to disabled people.
• catering facilities that are provided are accessible to all.
• boarding devices are provided to allow wheelchair users to enter and leave the vehicle.