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RAILWAYS CLAUSES CONSOLIDATION ACT 1845 - SECT 51

The width of the bridges need not exceed the width of the existing roads in certain cases.

51. Provided always, that in all cases where the average available width for
the passage of carriages of any existing roads within fifty yards of the
points of crossing the same is less than the width herein-before prescribed
for bridges over or under the railway the width of such bridges need not be
greater than such average available width of such roads, but so nevertheless
that such bridges be not of less width, in the case of a turnpike road or
public carriage road, than twenty feet: Provided also, that if any time after
the construction of the railway the average available width of any such road
shall be increased beyond the width of such bridge on either side thereof,
the company shall be bound, at their own expence, to increase the width of the
said bridge to such extent as they may be required by the trustees or
surveyors of such road, not exceeding the width of such road as so widened, or
the maximum width herein or in the special Act prescribed for a bridge in the
like case over or under the railway.

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