RAILWAYS CLAUSES CONSOLIDATION ACT 1845 - SECT 16 Works to be executed.

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RAILWAYS CLAUSES CONSOLIDATION ACT 1845 - SECT 16

Works to be executed.

16. Subject to the provisions and restrictions in this and the special Act,
and any Act incorporated therewith, it shall be lawful for the company, for
the purpose of constructing the railway, or the accommodation works connected
therewith, herein-after mentioned, to execute any of the following works;
(that is to say,)They may make or construct in, upon, across, under, or over
any lands, or any streets, hills, valleys, roads, railroads, or tramroads,
rivers, canals, brooks, streams, or other waters, within the lands described
in the said plans, or mentioned in the said books of reference or any
correction thereof, such temporary or permanent inclined planes, tunnels,
embankments, aqueducts, bridges, roads, ways, passages, conduits, drains,
piers, arches, cuttings, and fences, as they think proper;They may alter the
course of any rivers not navigable, brooks, streams, or watercourses, and of
any branches of navigable rivers, such branches not being themselves
navigable, within such lands, for the purpose of constructing and maintaining
tunnels, bridges, passages, or other works over or under the same, and divert
or alter, as well temporarily as permanently, the course of any such rivers or
streams of water, roads, streets, or ways, or raise or sink the level of any
such rivers or streams, roads, streets, or ways, in order the more
conveniently to carry the same over or under or by the side of the railway, as
they may think proper;They may make drains or conduits into, through, or under
any lands adjoining the railway, for the purpose of conveying water from or to
the railway;They may erect and construct such houses, warehouses, offices, and
other buildings, yards, stations, wharfs, engines, machinery, apparatus, and
other works and conveniences, as they think proper;They may from time to time
alter, repair, or discontinue the before-mentioned works or any of them, and
substitute others in their stead; andThey may do all other acts necessary for
making, maintaining, altering, or repairing, and using the railway:Works below
high-water mark not to be executed without the consent of the commissioners of
woods, &c. and of the lords of the admiralty.

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RAILWAYS CLAUSES CONSOLIDATION ACT 1845 - SECT 16