{ "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rail-vehicle-accessibility-regulations-1998/regulation-4", "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rail-vehicle-accessibility-regulations-1998/regulation-4.json", "legislation": "uksi/1998/2456", "legislation_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility Regulations 1998", "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rail-vehicle-accessibility-regulations-1998", "path": "regulation/4", "kind": "regulation", "number": "4", "heading": "Doors", "text": "(1) Each passenger doorway in the side of a regulated rail vehicle shall be indicated clearly by doors (excluding any window in or control device on the doors) rendered to contrast with the exterior of the vehicle to each side of that doorway.\n(2) Each passenger doorway in the side of a regulated rail vehicle shall be fitted with an audible warning device which shall emit warning sounds in accordance with paragraph (3) inside and outside the vehicle in the proximity of each control device for that doorway or, if there is no such control device, adjacent to that doorway.\n(3) The audible warning device shall—\n(a) emit a distinct sound for a period of not less than 3 seconds commencing when the door becomes openable by a passenger;\n(b) only if the door is operated by a member of the operator’s staff, emit a different distinct sound commencing not less than 3 seconds before the door starts to close.\n(4) In this regulation “sound” includes the spoken word.", "extent": null, "status": null, "version": "current", "annotations": [], "outstanding_effects": [ { "type": "restr in pt (temp)", "affecting": "uksi/2001/277", "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (ScotRail Class 334 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2001" }, { "type": "restr in pt (temp)", "affecting": "uksi/2001/847", "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Gatwick Express Class 460 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2001" }, { "type": "restr in pt (temp)", "affecting": "uksi/2001/848", "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (South West Trains Class 458 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2001" }, { "type": "rev. in pt.", "affecting": "uksi/2000/3215", "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Amendment) Regulations 2000" }, { "type": "excluded in pt.", "affecting": "uksi/2000/524", "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (North Western Trains Class 175/0 and Class 175/1 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2000" }, { "type": "excluded in part (temp. until 31.12.2000)", "affecting": "uksi/2000/6", "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Croydon Tramlink Class CR4000 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2000" }, { "type": "excluded (temp. until 31.12.2000)", "affecting": "uksi/2000/6", "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Croydon Tramlink Class CR4000 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2000" }, { "type": "modified (temp. until 31/12/2013)", "affecting": "uksi/2008/2969", "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (London Underground Victoria Line 09TS Vehicles) Exemption Order 2008" }, { "type": "excluded", "affecting": "uksi/2000/770", "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Gatwick Express Class 460 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2000" }, { "type": "excluded", "affecting": "uksi/2000/770", "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Gatwick Express Class 460 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2000" }, { "type": "excluded in pt.", "affecting": "uksi/2000/182", "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (LTS Rail Class 357 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2000" }, { "type": "excluded", "affecting": "uksi/2000/2050", "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Connex South Eastern Class 375 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2000" }, { "type": "excl.in pt. 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(pt 30.9.2001) (pt to 31.12-2000) (temp.)", "affecting": "uksi/1999/2404", "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (South West Trains Class 458 Vehicles) Exemption Order 1999" }, { "type": "excl.in pt.", "affecting": "uksi/1999/2547", "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (ScotRail Class 170/4 Vehicles) Exemption Order 1999" }, { "type": "excluded in pt.", "affecting": "uksi/2000/1349", "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (The Chiltern Railway Company Limited Class 168/1 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2000" }, { "type": "excl.in pt.", "affecting": "uksi/1999/1932", "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Central Trains Class 170/5 Vehicles) Exemption Order 1999" }, { "type": "excluded", "affecting": "uksi/2000/1770", "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Anglia Railways Class 170/2 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2000" }, { "type": "excluded", "affecting": "uksi/2000/1769", "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (ScotRail Class 170/4 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2000" }, { "type": "excl in pt.", "affecting": "uksi/1999/1448", "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (LTS Rail Class 357 Vehicles) Exemption Order 1999" }, { "type": "excluded in pt.", "affecting": "uksi/2000/1441", "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Central Trains Class 170/5 and Class 170/6 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2000" }, { "type": "excluded in pt.", "affecting": "uksi/2000/2953", "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (South West Trains Class 170/3 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2000" }, { "type": "excl.in pt.", "affecting": "uksi/1999/1931", "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Anglia Railways Class 170/2 Vehicles) Exemption Order 1999" }, { "type": "excl.in pt.", "affecting": "uksi/1999/2932", "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Serco Metrolink T68A Vehicles) Exemption Order 1999" }, { "type": "excl in pt", "affecting": "uksi/2003/2408", "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Bristol Harbour Railway Vehicle Number DB978121) Exemption Order 2003" }, { "type": "restr in pt", "affecting": "uksi/2003/1687", "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Festiniog Railway Company Vehicle Number 122) Exemption Order 2003" }, { "type": "excl", "affecting": "uksi/2003/1436", "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Furness Railway Trust North London Coach) Exemption Order 2003" }, { "type": "transtl provns", "affecting": "uksi/2008/925", "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (B2007 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2008" }, { "type": "excl in pt (temp)", "affecting": "uksi/2002/657", "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Cairngorm Funicular Railway) Exemption Order 2002" }, { "type": "excl in pt (temp)", "affecting": "uksi/2002/656", "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (South West Trains Class 458 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2002" }, { "type": "restr", "affecting": "uksi/2002/2873", "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Summerlee Tramcar No. 392) Exemption Order 2002" }, { "type": "restr in pt", "affecting": "uksi/2002/1694", "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Isle of Wight Railway LCDR No. 2515 Vehicle) Exemption Order 2002" }, { "type": "excl in pt", "affecting": "uksi/2002/1188", "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Middleton Railway Drewry Car) Exemption Order 2002" }, { "type": "excluded", "affecting": "uksi/2002/285", "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (East Hayling Light Railway Vehicles) Exemption Order 2002" }, { "type": "excluded", "affecting": "uksi/2002/285", "affecting_title": "The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (East Hayling Light Railway Vehicles) Exemption Order 2002" } ], "provenance": { "source": "legislation.gov.uk", "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2456/regulation/4", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:17:49.649417+00:00" }, "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0", "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/", "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives." }