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Originally Posted by Deathbyteacup
I would suggest all locomotives, certainly these days, will be required to carry a form of user-operated fire extinguisher, as do all carriages / DMUs.
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Due to vandalism many TOCs have removed fire extinguishers from inside the coaches. There is no requirement to provide them. At my company ASLEF carried out an investigation into how many instances a fire had been fought by carriage fire extinguishers - and there were none.
So now our EMUs have 2 large AFFF extinguishers in each cab, and none in the saloons (which is probably just as well since we wouldn't want any passengers squirting foam near the 25Kv equiment).
Modern safety policy dictates that a fire on a train should be considered as an Emergency Evacuation. Human life is most important - OHLE and stations can be rebuilt.
FP