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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...
Light Railway
Light Railway. Light railways, on which engines and carriages of eight tons weight or less may be brought upon the rails by any one pair o wheels, and the speed of trains is not to exceed twenty-five miles an hour, could and still can be authorized by the Board of Trade under s. 27 of the (English) Regulation of Railways Act, 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 119).These powers have been little, if at all, exercised; but the (English) Light Railways Act, 1896 (59 & 60 Vict. c. 48), established a Light Railway Commission for the purpose of authorizing light railways, with special aid from the Treasury in certain circumstances and cases. By the (English) Light Railways Act, 1912 (2 & 3 Geo. 5, c. 19), the powers of the Light Railway Commissioners were continued for five years and several amendments made in the Act of 1896. See also Part V. of the (English) Railways Act, 1921....
Railway and Canal Commission
Railway and Canal Commission, a body established by the Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1888, to supersede the Railway Commissioners, who had been appointed under the (English) Regulation of Railways Act, 1873 (36 & 37 Vict. c. 48), with all the jurisdiction conferred by s. 3 of the (English) Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1854 (see infra), on the several courts and judges empowered to hear and determine complaints under that Act, and exercise their jurisdiction with enlarged powers, and consisting of two appointed (one to be of experience in railway business) and three ex-officio commissioners: one for England, one for Scotland, and one for Ireland, bring each of them a judge of a superior Court in England, Scotland, or Ireland respectively, and not required to attend out of the part of the United Kingdom for which he is appointed. The ex-officio Commissioner presides at the sittings, and his opinion upon any question of law prevails. As to appeal to 'superior Court of Appeal,' see ss....
Metro railway administration
Metro railway administration, in relation to-(i) a Government metro railway means the General Manger of that railway; or (ii) a non-Government metro railway means the person who is the owner or lessee of that metro railway or the person working that metro railway under an arrangement with the owner or lessee of that metro railway. [Delhi Metro Railway (Operation and Maintenance) Act, 2002 (60 of 2002), s. 2(1) (j)]...
Railway administration
Railway administration, the definition of 'railway administration' in s. 3(6) of the Railways Act, 1890, that it would mean the manager of the railway does not warrant the inference that a suit against the railway administration can be brought against the manager of that railway, State of Kerala v. General Manager, AIR 1976 SC 2538: (1976) 4 SCC 265: (1977) 1 SCR 419....
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)]...
Non-Government railway
Non-Government railway, 'non-Government railway' means a railway other than a Government railway. [Railways Act, 1989 (24 of 1989), s. 2(25)]...
Operation and maintenance of a railway
Operation and maintenance of a railway, before any one can be charged with the offence u/s. 3 of the Railway Stores (Unlawful Possession) Act, 1955, it must be shown that he was in possession of railway stores which by the definition of s. does not include all articles which are the property of a railway administration but only those which are used or intended to be used in the construction, operation or maintenance of a railway, Kashmiri Lal v. State of Uttar Pradesh, AIR 1970 SC 1868: (1970) 2 SCR 187: (1969) 2 SCC 706....
Railway Rates Tribunal
Railway Rates Tribunal. A tribunal established by the (English) Railways Act, 1921, ss. 20 et seq., which is composed, either with or without other assistance, of one person experienced in commercial affairs, one experienced in railway business, and the president, who shall be an experienced 'lawyer.' The jurisdiction of the tribunal is dealt with by ss. 27 and 28, which transfer to it some of the powers exercised by the Railway and Canal Commission in addition to granting new powers [(English) Road and Rail Traffic Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 53)], Part II., ss. 37 et seq. Its authority does not extend to Ireland. See also (English) Railway Rates Tribunal Rules, 1922, No. 906....
Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1854
Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1854, (English) an Act by ss. 2 and 3 of which the Courts of Common Pleas in England and Ireland and the Court of Session in Scotland were empowered to compel railway and canal companies (1) to grant reason-able facilities for the receiving, forwarding, and delivering their own traffic; (2) to abstain from giving an undue preference to any particular person or traffic; and (3) to forward traffic without delay in cases of continuous communication. The object of the Act, which was amended in 1873 and 1888, was to ensure freedom and economy of transit from one end of the kingdom to the other. The law has been further amended by the Railway and Canal Traffic Acts, 1894 and 1912, and Railways Act, 1921. See last title....
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