# The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Non-Interoperable Rail System) Regulations 2010, Paragraph 8: Floors


(1) The floors of all areas used by passengers in a rail vehicle must be slip-resistant.
(2) Subject to sub-paragraphs (3) and (5), the floor of a vestibule to a passenger doorway in the side of a rail vehicle must contrast with the adjoining floor of the passenger saloon of the vehicle.
(3) Subject to sub-paragraph (5), where the passenger doorway in the side of a rail vehicle is not opposite another external doorway, the extent of the floor of the vestibule which must contrast with the floor of the passenger saloon must only be the extent indicated in sub-paragraph (4).
(4) The extent of the floor of the vestibule referred to in sub-paragraph (3) is that area of it which extends from the internal edge of the door sill of the external door across the internal width of the rail vehicle for not less than 560 millimetres and not more than one third of that width.
(5) The requirements of sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) do not apply where the vestibule and adjoining passenger saloon are separated by a doorway.
(6) At a passenger doorway in the side of a rail vehicle the floor must have a band of single colour running parallel with the full width of the entrance—
(a) not less than 50 millimetres and not more than 100 millimetres wide;
(b) the edge of which furthest from the entrance must not be more than 100 millimetres from the edge of the floor at the entrance; and
(c) which contrasts with the adjoining floor surface.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/432/schedule/1/paragraph/8 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/rail-vehicle-accessibility-non-interoperable-rail-system-regulations-2010/schedule-1/paragraph-8
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