RE: Railway Crossing Gate

1999-11-12 Thread Geoff Lister
Richard, I had a look at the BSI site, and after several layers of unwanted pages, got to their standards search engine with a URL of http://bsonline.ihserc.com/BSONLINE/search/standardsearch/DWSearch.asp?L S=&LR=&LD=&Src=default.asp&Dest=Search/StandardSearch/ResetSearch.asp&La st=&SessID=&M

RE: Railway Crossing Gate

1999-11-12 Thread Alan Brewster
Nute [mailto:ri...@sdd.hp.com] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 1999 2:48 PM To: abrews...@ccsemc.com Cc: rl...@concentric.net; emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: Re: Railway Crossing Gate > Will a child hold on to the gate as it opens in order to= > "ride" it and if so what pr

Re: Railway Crossing Gate

1999-11-11 Thread Rich Nute
> Will a child hold on to the gate as it opens in order to= > "ride" it and if so what prevents injury. As I child, I was a paper boy. The papers were delivered to our town by train. We picked up our route package at the train station as it was thrown from the baggage car and then we

RE: Railway Crossing Gate

1999-11-11 Thread Crane, Lauren
I suspect, but don't know, that such a device may be covered by a different directive concerned with railway issues. I suspect this because I notice exceptions in a few directives for railway carriages. If there is not a directive for railway line equipment then I think the Machinery Directive

RE: Railway Crossing Gate

1999-11-11 Thread Alan Brewster
Richard, The Machinery Directive is applicable and would definitely be concerned with the control electronics from a number of points of view. The interesting issue with these types of products are the "Human Nature" hazards. Will a child hold on to the gate as it opens in order to "ride" it and if