The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Non-Interoperable Rail System) (London Underground Metropolitan Line S8 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2011

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Non-Interoperable Rail System) (London Underground Metropolitan Line S8 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2011 and shall come into force on 14th February 2011.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order—

“boarding device requirement” means the requirement to fit a boarding device at wheelchair-compatible doorways set out in paragraph 1(1) of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Non-Interoperable Rail System) Regulations 2010(1);

“Metropolitan Line” means the London Underground route between Aldgate and Amersham, Chesham, Watford and Uxbridge stations, including platforms 1 and 4 at Neasden and Willesden Green stations;

“MS exempt vehicle” means a rail vehicle of the type known as Metropolitan Line 2010 Tube Stock (S8) and with a number in the series 24001 to 24116;

“step-free access” means access from the station entrance to the platform level without the use of stairs or escalators.

Exemption relating to boarding devices at wheelchair compatible doorways

3.  Subject to article 4, an MS exempt vehicle is authorised to be used for carriage on the Metropolitan Line even if it is used in a manner that does not conform with the boarding device requirement, but only in so far as the vehicle is stationary at a station platform named in table 1 in the Schedule.

Expiry

4.  The exemption specified in article 3 expires—

(a) in relation to Harrow on the Hill station, platform 2, at the end of 30th November 2013;

(b) in relation to a station platform named in table 2 in the Schedule, when step-free access is provided to that station platform.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Norman Baker

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Transport

13th January 2011