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Railway Station, means outer wall of the main building of a station, conceivably not fronting any street falls within railway station, Corpn. of Madras v. Oriental Mercantile Company Ltd., Madras, (1967) ILR 3 Mad 818: (1966) 2 Mad LJ 440: (1966) 79 Mad LW 671...
Railway
Railway. A road owned by a private person or public company on which carriages run over iron rails; if the road is a public highway, that part of it on which the rails are laid is called a tramway. Every railway in this country (except a few private railways running through land owned by the owner of the railway) is constructed and managed (1) under a local and personal Act of Parliament; and (2) under the Companies Clauses, Lands Clauses, and Railways Clauses Consolidation Acts; and (3) under the general Acts relating to railways. The (English) Railway Act, 1921, provides for the reorganization of almost all the railways in England.Railway Companies as Carriers, The powers of railway companies as carriers are given by the 86th section of the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, and controlled by the (English) Railway and Canal Traffic Acts of 1854, 1873, and 1888. The (English) Act of 1845, s. 86, enacts that:-It shall be lawful for the company [authorized (see s. 3) by the speci...
Sky Sign
Sky Sign. This expression is defined in s. 91 (3) of the Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1907, as follows:-'Sky sign' meansAny word, letter, model, sign, device, or representa-tion in the nature of an advertisement, announce-ment, or direction supported on or attached to any post, pole, standard, framework, or other support wholly or in part upon, over, or above any house, building or structure which, or any part of which, sky sign shall be visible against the sky from some point in any street or public way, and includes all and every part of any such post, pole, standard, framework, or other support.The expression 'sky sign' shall also include:Any balloon, parachute, or other similar device employed wholly or in part for the purposes of any advertisement or announcement on, over, or above any house, building, structure, or erection of any kind, or on or over any street or public way;But shall not include:(a) Any flagstaff, pole, vane, or weathercock unless adapted or used wholly or ...
Station to station rate
Station to station rate, means a special reduced rate applicable to a specific commodity booked between specified stations. [Railways Act, 1989 (24 of 1989), s. 2(38)]...
Metro railway
Metro railway, means rail-guided mass rapid transit system having dedicated right-of-way, with steel wheel or rubber-tyred wheel coaches, but excluding tramways, for carriage of passengers, and includes-(A) all land within the boundary marks indicating the limits of the land appurtenant to a metro railway, (B) all rails tracks, sidings, yards or branches worked over for the purposes of, or in connection with, a metro railway, (C) all stations, offices, ventilation shafts and ducts, warehouses, workshops, manufactories, fixed plants and machineries, sheds, depots and other works constructed for the purpose of, or in connection with, a metro railway. [Delhi Metro Railway (Operation and Maintenance) Act, 2002 (60 of 2002), s. 2(1)(i)]...
Near
Near. In the Railway and (English) Canal Traffic Act, 1854, used of railway stations not more than one mile distant from each other; and in the (English) Unemployed Workmen Act,1905, s. 1 (a), by which the Ministry of Health may make orders extending s. 1 to 'boroughs or districts adjoining or near to London,' used without any definition. [S. 40(1)(e), Cr.P.C.]...
Untoward incident
Untoward incident, means:(1)(i) The commission of a terrorist act within the meaning of sub-s. (1) of s. 3 of the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, 1987 (28 of 1987); or(ii) the making of a violent attack or the commission of robbery or dacoity; or(iii) the indulging in rioting, shoot-out or arson,by any person in or any train carrying passengers, or in a waiting hall, cloakroom or reservation or booking office or on any platform or in any other place within the precincts of a railway station; or(2) the accidental falling of any passenger from a train carrying passengers. [Railways Act, 1989 (24 of 1989), s. 123(c)]...
Baggage master
One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel...
Lorrie
A small cart or wagon moving on rails as those used on the tramways in mines to carry coal or rubbish also a barrow or truck for shifting baggage as at railway stations...
Generating station
Generating station, 'generating station' or 'station' means any station for generating electricity, including any building and plant with step-up transformer, switch-gear, switch yard, cables or other appurtenant equipment, if any, used for that purpose and the site thereof; a site intended to be used for a generating station, and any building used for housing the operating staff of a generating station, and where electricity is generated by water-power, includes pen stocks, head and tail works, main and regulating reservoirs, dams and other hydraulic works, but does not in any case include any sub-station. [Electricity Act, 2003 (36 of 2003), s. 2(28)]...
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