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The Railway Safety Regulations 1999

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Prohibition of Mark I rolling stock

4.—(1) No person shall operate, and no infrastructure controller shall permit the operation of, any Mark I rolling stock on a railway.

(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to rolling stock which at the relevant time is being exclusively operated other than for the carriage of fare paying passengers or by London Underground Limited, Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive, Strathclyde Passenger Transport Executive or Serco Metrolink Limited.

(3) Until 1st January 2005 paragraph (1) shall not apply to Mark I rolling stock which has been modified so as to ensure that in the event of a collision–

(a)the underframe of one vehicle will not ride over the underframe of another vehicle so modified (whether or not the other vehicle is part of the same train);

(b)where sub-paragraph (a) is not practicable, the extent of any such riding over is as small as can practicably be achieved by a modification to the rolling stock.

(4) In this regulation “modified” means modified by the installation of interlocking devices on vehicles and “modification” shall be construed accordingly.

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