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RAILWAYS CLAUSES CONSOLIDATION ACT 1845 - SECT 68



68. The company shall make and at all times thereafter maintain the following
works for the accommodation of the owners and occupiers of lands adjoining
the railway; (that is to say,)Such and so many convenient gates, bridges,
arches, culverts, and passages, over, under, or by the sides of or leading to
or from the railway, as shall be necessary for the purpose of making good any
interruptions caused by the railway to the use of the lands through which
the railway shall be made; and such works shall be made forthwith after the
part of the railway passing over such lands shall have been laid out or
formed, or during the formation thereof;Also sufficient posts, rails, hedges,
ditches, mounds, or other fences, for separating the land taken for the use of
the railway from the adjoining lands not taken, and protecting such lands from
trespass, or the cattle of the owners or occupiers thereof from straying
thereout, by reason of the railway, together with all necessary gates, made to
open towards such adjoining lands, and not towards the railway, and all
necessary stiles; and such posts, rails, and other fences shall be made
forthwith after the taking of any such lands, if the owners thereof shall so
require, and the said other works as soon as conveniently may be:Also all
necessary arches, tunnels, culverts, drains, or other passages, either over or
under or by the sides of the railway, of such dimensions as will be sufficient
at all times to convey the water as clearly from the lands lying near or
affected by the railway as before the making of the railway, or as nearly so
as may be; and such works shall be made from time to time as the railway works
proceed;Also proper watering places for cattle where by reason of the railway
the cattle of any person occupying any lands lying near thereto shall be
deprived of access to their former watering places; and such watering places
shall be so made as to be at all times as sufficiently supplied with water as
theretofore, and as if the railway had not been made, or as nearly so as may
be; and the company shall make all necessary watercourses and drains for the
purpose of conveying water to the said watering places:

Differences as to accommodation works to be settled by justices.



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