Power Operated External Doors on Passenger Carrying Rail ...

1 Power OperatedExternal Doors onPassenger CarryingRail VehiclesSynopsisThis document mandates the minimumdesign and maintenance requirements toenable passengers to safely gain accessto, and egress from, Passenger trainsvia External bodyside document contains requirementsthat are amended under the RailwayGroup Standards Code (Issue Three) asa small scale change. Reference to theamended requirements is made in the Issue Record . All other parts of thedocument are unchanged from theprevious document contains one or more pages which contain colourCopyright in the Railway Group Standards is owned byRail Safety and Standards Board Limited. All rights arehereby reserved.

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3 Or any claims arisingtherefrom. This disclaimer applies to all forms of media inwhich extracts from Railway Group Standards may by:RSSBB lock 2 Angel Square1 Torrens StreetLondonEC1V 1NY Copyright 2013 Rail Safety and Standards Board LimitedRailway Group StandardGM/RT2473 IssueTwoDateJune 2013 Uncontrolled When Printed Document comes into force and supersedes GMRT2473 Iss 1 as of 07/09/2013 Superseded by RIS-2747-RST Iss 1 with effect from 04/03/2017 This page has been left blank intentionallyUncontrolled When Printed Document comes into force and supersedes GMRT2473 Iss 1 as of 07/09/2013 Superseded by RIS-2747-RST Iss 1 with effect from 04/03/2017 Power Operated External Doors onPassenger Carrying Rail VehiclesRSSB1 Railway Group StandardGM/RT2473 IssueTwoDateJune

4 2013 Page1of 19 ContentsSectionDescriptionPagePart AA1 Issue record2A2 Implementation of this document2A3 Scope of Railway Group Standards2A4 Deleted2A5 Health and safety responsibilities2A6 Technical content3A7 Supply3 Part BB1 Purpose4B2 Application of this document4B3 Definitions4B4 Principles5B5 Design of Doors and doorways5B6 Operating forces for Power Operated doors6B7 Door control systems7B8 Provision of door controls9B9 Locking Doors out of use10B10 Controls for emergency access10B11 Controls for emergency egress11B12 Selective door operation (SDO)11 Appendix 1 Guidance for measuring the closing forces of Power Operated doors13 Appendix 2 Data format structure15 Appendix 3 Automatic Selective Door Operation (ASDO)

5 Systems17 References19 Uncontrolled When Printed Document comes into force and supersedes GMRT2473 Iss 1 as of 07/09/2013 Superseded by RIS-2747-RST Iss 1 with effect from 04/03/2017 Railway Group StandardGM/RT2473 IssueTwoDateJune 2013 Page2of 19 Power Operated External Doors onPassenger Carrying Rail Vehicles2 RSSBPart AA1 Issue recordIssueDateCommentsOneFebruary 2003 Original DocumentSupersedes GO/OTS300 TwoJune 2013 Replaces issue scale change amendment revisionof clauses , b) to mandate anobstacle extraction test piece and tomandate, where RFID is fitted, the dataformat structure and communicationsprotocol, and inclusion of two newAppendices, Appendix 2 and Appendix or additional parts of revised pages form Part B onwards have beenmarked by a vertical black line in the adjacent Implementation ofthis documentThe publication date of this document is 01 June document comes into force on 07 September dates by which compliance with the requirements of this document is to beachieved are set out in Part B2.

6 Where those dates are later than the date onwhich this document comes into force, this is to give Railway Group membersadditional time to plan and commence implementation so as to achieve fullcompliance by the dates set out in Part document supersedes the following Railway Group Standards, either inwhole or in part as thisdocumentDate(s) as ofwhich sectionsare supersededGM/RT2473 OnePower OperatedExternal Doorson Passenger - Carrying RailVehiclesAll sections07 September2013A3 Scope of RailwayGroup StandardsThe overall scope of Railway Group Standards is set out in the Railway GroupStandards DeletedNo longer Health and safetyresponsibilitiesIn issuing this document, Railway Safety makes no warranties, express orimplied, that compliance with all or any documents published by Railway Safetyis sufficient on its own to ensure safe systems of work or operation.

7 Each user isreminded of its own responsibilities to ensure health and safety at work and itsindividual duties under health and safety When Printed Document comes into force and supersedes GMRT2473 Iss 1 as of 07/09/2013 Superseded by RIS-2747-RST Iss 1 with effect from 04/03/2017 Power Operated External Doors onPassenger Carrying Rail VehiclesRSSB3 Railway Group StandardGM/RT2473 IssueTwoDateJune 2013 Page3of 19A6 Technical contentThe technical content of this document was approved by:Rolling Stock Standards Committee on 18 January document was authorised by RSSB on 25 April SupplyThe authoritative version of this document is available at copies of this document can be obtained from Communications,RSSB, Block 2 Angel Square, 1 Torrens Street, London EC1V 1NY.

8 Telephone020 3142 5400 or e-mail Other Standards andassociated documents can also be viewed at When Printed Document comes into force and supersedes GMRT2473 Iss 1 as of 07/09/2013 Superseded by RIS-2747-RST Iss 1 with effect from 04/03/2017 Railway Group StandardGM/RT2473 IssueTwoDateJune 2013 Page4of 19 Power Operated External Doors onPassenger Carrying Rail Vehicles4 RSSBPart BB1 PurposeThis document mandates the minimum design and maintenance requirements toenable passengers to safely gain access to, and egress from, Passenger trainsvia External bodyside Application of To whom the requirements applyThis document contains requirements that are applicable to Compliance vehicle design requirements set out in this document are to be complied withfrom 07 September to bring existing Power Operated External Doors into compliance with therequirements of this document is not a vehicle is subject to alteration and the nature of the alteration providesa reasonable opportunity to bring the vehicle into conformity, then therequirements of this document applicable to the alteration the compliance date.

9 Or after the date by which compliance is achieved (ifearlier), Railway Group members shall not deviate from the requirements set outin this Exclusions from the application of this documentThe contents of this document do not apply to on-track machines, road-railvehicles, rail-mounted maintenance machines or other vehicles not specificallydesigned for the carriage of DefinitionsAccess deviceAn access device is a device to permit entry from outside a Passenger carryingrail vehicle to the External bodyside door available for Passenger use, including its componentsirrespective of the number of door leaves forceThe average value of the closing force related to the pulse deviceAn egress device is a device to permit evacuation from inside the train to a door is positively held in the closed position such that it cannot beopened without operation of train crew Operated controls or devices.

10 And/oremergency access/egress out of useWhen a door is manually locked by a mechanism other than the normaloperational door controls and unavailable for Passenger use following a defect orfor operational When Printed Document comes into force and supersedes GMRT2473 Iss 1 as of 07/09/2013 Superseded by RIS-2747-RST Iss 1 with effect from 04/03/2017 Power Operated External Doors onPassenger Carrying Rail VehiclesRSSB5 Railway Group StandardGM/RT2473 IssueTwoDateJune 2013 Page5of 19 Passenger Carrying rail vehicleRail vehicle designed and used to convey fare-paying forceThe maximum value of the closing to startA communication signal used to advise the driver that it is permissible to start certificated as competent to carry out the requirements of the Rule Bookfor drivers and release of positive door locking, thus allowing the door to be opened.