Rail Safety (Adoption of National Law) Regulation 2018
31Train communications systems
Start here
Get a plain-English read of 31
Turn the raw legal text into a practical explanation grounded in Rail Safety (Adoption of National Law) Regulation 2018.
31 Train communications systems
31 Train communications systems
(1) A rolling stock operator must ensure that each train for which the person is responsible is, at all times when the train is on the NSW rail network, fitted with a radio communications system that complies with this clause and a back up means of communication to be used if the radio communications system fails.
Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.
(2) A rail infrastructure manager must ensure that a rolling stock operator of rolling stock operated on any part of the NSW rail network vested in or owned, managed or controlled by the rail infrastructure manager complies with subclause (1).
Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.
(3) A radio communications system for a train must—
(a) enable the driver of the train to verbally communicate with any network control officer responsible for the area in which the train is operating, and
(b) be working at all times when the train is being operated, and
(c) be capable of receiving and transmitting emergency calls, and
(d) be fitted with an emergency button that enables an emergency call from the train to be given priority over all other calls and that enables direct communication between the train and the network control officer responsible for the area in which the train is operating, and
(e) be capable of transmitting an emergency communication in a form that will allow any network control officer responsible for the area in which the train is operating to transmit the communication to other trains in that area.
(4) A rail transport operator is taken to comply with subclause (2) if the radio communications system fails but the back up means of communication is operational.
(5) In this clause—
NSW rail network means the railway lines vested in or owned by or managed or controlled by a rail infrastructure owner, within the meaning of the Transport Administration Act 1988, (including passing loops and turnouts from those lines and loops and associated rail infrastructure facilities that are so vested or owned or managed or controlled).