Legal Agreements Etc.
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Due to the continuing connection between the FR and the WHR, no attempt is made to separate them in this listing.
Subsequently, other related legislation - where known (and none exhaustive), has been added.
As documents of this sort have only become available on line in recent years, the links only cover more recent history. There are, of course, several other Acts and Orders that have had significant effects on the railways. Until such time as these are available online they are just listed.
Will posters of details of other relevant documents, please leave comments for inclusion on the relevant, specific, page elsewhere.
[edit]Acts and Orders on Original Railways
including any directly related acts. Note - these have been taken from various sources, hence the format of entries varies.
[edit]19th Century
Act, 1807, Cob {for right to build the Cob}
Act, 1821, Harbour
Act 2/3 William IV Cap. 48 23 May 1832 {the main act establishing the Railway}
Act: 1/2 Victoria Cap. 80 27 July 1838 {referred by Boyd as Finance Act}
Act for Regulating Railways 1840 See here
Act, 1842, Railway Passenger Duty
Act, 1844, Railway Regulation - Act to attach certain Conditions to the Construction of future Railways 1844 see also Parliamentary train See here
Act, 1846 (standard gauge)
Act, 1850, Railway Clearing See here
An Act for regulating the Gauge of Railways 1850 See here
Act, 1853 (Rhiw bach)
Act, 1854, Railway, & Canal Traffic
Act, 1861 (SG)
Act, 1864, Railway Construction Facilities
Act: 32/33 Victoria Cap. 141 26 July 1869 (double tracking and others?)
Act, 1871, Regulation of Forces
Act, 1883, Cheap Trains
Act, 1889, Regulation of Railways See here
Act: 55/56 Victoria Cap. 44 20 June 1892
Act, 1896 Light Railways
Act, 1897, Workmen's Compensation
Order, 1898, Draft Certificate to construct a Deviation
[edit]20th Century
Act, 1900, Railway Employment
Act, 1905, Cheap Trains
Act, 1911, Railway Companies
Act, 1921, Railways Act (Grouping)
Light Railway Order 30 January 1923 (Welsh Highland?)
Transport Act 1947
[edit]Acts and Orders In Preservation Era
[edit]20th Century
Act, 1955, N.W. Hydro Electric Power (Creation of Llyn Ystradau lake)
Act, Light Railways
Light Railway (Amendment) Order 9 February 1968 (Deviation)
Light Railway (Amendment) Order 1975 (Deviation)
[edit]Recent Acts and Orders available online
TRANSPORT AND WORKS ACT 1992 Publication Date: Tuesday, 29 June 1999 Notice Code: 1506 See here
The Welsh Highland Railway (Transfer) Light Railway Order 1995 appears here
The Caernarfon Railway Light Railway Order 1997 appears here
Covering Rail Vehicle Accessibility of new stock
Statutory Instrument 1998 No. 2456 (index page) The Rail Vehicle Accessibility Regulations 1998, appears here
The Welsh Highland Railway Order 1999 appears here
The Communications Act 2003 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2003 appears here Yes, it does have a bearing on WHR legislation !!
The exemption order covering construction of Carriage 122
Statutory Instrument 2003 No. 1687 - The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Festiniog Railway Company Vehicle Number 122) Exemption Order 2003 appears here
Guidance notes from the DfT appear here
A short list of "milestone" agreements that have been made, copies existing on the WHR(P) site
The initial January 1996 Memorandum of Understanding
The second version of the MoU appeared at the end of November 1997
[edit]Culled notes from external sources
Please see this page Legal_Agreements_Etc / source notes