PART 2CARRIAGE OF GOODS BY RAIL
7. Where orange-coloured plates bearing a HIN are required to be displayed in accordance with regulation 20(3) and section 5.3.2 of RID, then the HIN shall be replaced by the appropriate EAC for the substance in question.
8. Where dangerous goods are being carried in tanks, a telephone number where specialist advice concerning the dangerous goods in question may be obtained in English at any time during carriage shall be displayed—
(a)in the immediate vicinity of each orange-coloured plate; and
(b)against an orange-coloured background in black digits of not less than 30mm in height.
9.—(1) The information required to be displayed on placards and orange-coloured plates in accordance with section 5.3.1 of RID and paragraph 7 and the telephone number required to be displayed pursuant to paragraph 8 may all be shown on hazard warning panels provided that any such panel meets the conditions set out in sub-paragraph (2).
(2) The conditions referred to in sub-paragraph (1) for a hazard warning panel are that it shall—
(a)be displayed in accordance with paragraph 8 as if it were an orange-coloured plate; and
(b)comply with the requirements of paragraphs 6(2)(c) to (f).