Dock railways

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25 Dock railways

25.1. General provisions

25.1.1. Dock railways should be constructed, equipped, main-

tained and operated in accordance with the relevant provisions of

safety rules governing railways of the national system.

25.1.2. Sufficient clearance to ensure safety should be allowed

between structures or piles of material and railway tracks.

25.1.3. Where buildings have doorways opening directly on to

dock railway tracks, at blind corners or at other places where the

field of vision is particularly restricted, workers should be protected

against stepping on to the tracks in front of moving vehicles by

suitable warning signs and, where practicable, by fixed detour railings

across the direct path so installed as to ensure safe clearance for

trainmen riding on cars.

25.1.4. Ground levers working points should be so placed that

persons working them are clear of adjacent lines and as little obstruc-

tion as possible is caused to persons employed.

25.1.5. Where necessary to prevent danger, point rods and signal

wires should be sufficiently covered or otherwise guarded.

25.1.6. Warning signs and obstruction guards on dock railways

should be made conspicuous by painting, for example with alterna-

ting black and yellow stripes.

25.1.7. Where dock railways are operated during hours of

darkness, all warning signs and obstruction guards should be

illuminated.

25.1.8. Locomotive drivers should act only on signals given by

an authorised person; provided that stop signals should always be

acted on, irrespective of their source.

25.1.9. Locomotive warning devices should be actuated before

setting standing locomotives or trains in motion and when approach-

ing level crossings and hazardous places.

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