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Consultation Summary

Changes in technology, updates to rolling stock standards and the need for clarity in certain topic areas were drivers to revise the standard and the associated instructions.
The topic areas that have been subject to change are:
• Communications in case of a train defect 
• Vehicle formation in case of non-operative brakes  
• Doors on passenger vehicles 
• Driver’s safety device (DSD) and driver’s vigilance equipment 
• Hot axle box and activations of lineside hot axle box detectors 
• On-train data recorder (OTDR) 
• Sanding equipment to assist train braking 
• Vehicle with locked wheels/wheel flats/shifted tyres/dragging brakes 
• Fire detection and fire suppression systems.

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