Article 21 Accessibility
United Kingdom
Railway undertakings and station managers shall, through compliance with the F1NTSN for persons with reduced mobility, ensure that the station, platforms, rolling stock and other facilities are accessible to disabled persons and persons with reduced mobility.
In the absence of accompanying staff on board a train or of staff at a station, railway undertakings and station managers shall make all reasonable efforts to enable disabled persons or persons with reduced mobility to have access to travel by rail.
In this Article “the NTSN for persons with reduced mobility” means the NTSN published for that purpose by the Secretary of State pursuant to regulation 3(B) of the Railways (Interoperability) Regulations 2011.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Word in Art. 21(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Rail Passengers' Rights and Obligations (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1165), regs. 1(2), 13(a) (as substituted by S.I. 2020/318, regs. 1(2)(b), 3(4)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
- F2
Art. 21(3) inserted by The Rail Passengers' Rights and Obligations (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1165), regs. 1(2), 13(b) (as substituted by S.I. 2020/318, regs. 1(2)(b), 3(4)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)