# The Coal and Other Mines (Locomotives) Order 1956, Paragraph 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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1956/1771/schedule/FIRST/paragraph/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/coal-and-other-mines-locomotives-order-1956/schedule-FIRST/paragraph-5
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