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Hoerbiger-Origa rodless pneumatic cylinders are driving the automatic doors on the latest generation toilet cubicles for trains, providing easy accesses for wheelchair bound passengers.

 

Train operators are reassessing the design of their carriages following the enactment of the Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Amendment) Regulations 2000, which amongst other issues requires wheelchair access to toilet cubicles.

 

With much of the nation’s rolling stock being renewed or refurbished as the whole rail system reinvigorates itself for the 21st Century, carriage builders have turned to suppliers like Jones Garrard Ltd of Leicester for innovative solutions to increasingly complex problems.

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