[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 49, Volume 4]

[Revised as of October 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 49CFR214.327]



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                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION

 

       CHAPTER II--FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF 

                             TRANSPORTATION

 

PART 214_RAILROAD WORKPLACE SAFETY--Table of Contents

 

                   Subpart C_Roadway Worker Protection

 

Sec. 214.327  Inaccessible track.



    (a) Working limits on non-controlled track shall be established by 

rendering the track within working limits physically inaccessible to 

trains at each possible point of entry by one of the following features:

    (1) A flagman with instructions and capability to hold all trains 

and equipment clear of the working limits;

    (2) A switch or derail aligned to prevent access to the working 

limits and secured with an effective securing device by the roadway 

worker in charge of the working limits;

    (3) A discontinuity in the rail that precludes passage of trains or 

engines into the working limits;

    (4) Working limits on controlled track that connects directly with 

the inaccessible track, established by the roadway worker in charge of 

the working limits on the inaccessible track; or

    (5) A remotely controlled switch aligned to prevent access to the 

working limits and secured by the control operator of such remotely 

controlled switch by application of a locking or blocking device to the 

control of that switch, when:

    (i) The control operator has secured the remotely controlled switch 

by applying a locking or blocking device to the control of the switch, 

and

    (ii) The control operator has notified the roadway worker who has 

established the working limits that the requested protection has been 

provided, and

    (iii) The control operator is not permitted to remove the locking or 

blocking device from the control of the switch until receiving 

permission to do so from the roadway worker who established the working 

limits.



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    (b) Trains and roadway maintenance machines within working limits 

established by means of inaccessible track shall move only under the 

direction of the roadway worker in charge of the working limits, and 

shall move at restricted speed.

    (c) No operable locomotives or other items of on-track equipment, 

except those present or moving under the direction of the roadway worker 

in charge of the working limits, shall be located within working limits 

established by means of inaccessible track.