Railways (Private Sidings) Act, 1904

RAILWAYS (PRIVATE SIDINGS) ACT 1904

CHAPTER XIX.

An Act to amend the Law relating to Private Sidings on Railways. [15th August 1904.]

Be it enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :

Short title.

1. This Act may be cited as the Railways (Private Sidings) Act, 1904.

Facilities with respect to private sidings.

17 & 18 Vict. c. 31.

2. The reasonable facilities which every railway company is required to afford under section two of the Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1854 , as amended or explained by any other Act, shall include reasonable facilities for the junction of private sidings or private branch railways with any railway belonging to or worked by any such company, and reasonable facilities for receiving, forwarding and delivering traffic upon and from those sidings or private branch railways.

Provisions as to order under the Act.

51 & 52 Vict. c. 25.

3. The Railway and Canal Commissioners may at any time review and rescind or vary any order made by them under this Act on the application of any party to the order, but, before such an application is entertained by the Commissioners, the applicant shall show to the Commissioners, in manner provided by rules to be made for the purpose under section twenty of the Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1888, that.there is a primâ facie case for the application.