Warwick Farm Railway Act Extension Act 1911 (NSW)

New South Wales.

ANNO. SECUNDO GEORGII V REGIS.

An Act to continue and amend the provisions of the Warwick Farm Railway Act, whereby the construction and control of a railway from and connecting the line of railway from Sydney to Liverpool, at a point between the Liverpool and Cabramatta railway stations, to and with the Warwick Farm race-course was authorised; and for purposes

consequent thereon or incidental thereto. [30th September, 1911. ]

Warwick Farm Rarway Act EXTXNSTON.

JIEREAS in the fifty-third vear of the reign of Her late Majesty Preamble.

Queen Victoria an Act was passed entitled the Warwick Farm Railway Act, in which it was thereby enacted that it should be lawful for Edwin Ernest Allan Oatley and John Thompson, their heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns, upon the terms and conditions, and subject to the provisions thereinafter contained, to make, con- struct, and control a railway for conveying the passengers, their luggage, and other goods, stock, and material, from a point on the line

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Act, 1911.

Warwick Farm Railway Act Extension. of railway from Sydney to Liverpool, at a point between the Liverpool and Cabramatta railway stations, and with the Warwick Farm race- course, and thence by the lines described in the Schedule to that Act, and to effect a junction between the said line of railway from Sydney to Liverpool and the Warwick Farm race-course, in accordance with section ninety-nine of the Government Railways Act of 1858, and to take and use so much of the streets, roads, or land referred to in the said Schedule as might be required for the purposes of such railway, but so that the same shall not occupy, in any part thereof, a greater space in breadth than fifty feet, including the support and foundations thereof: Provided that the said railway should be completely con- structed between the points above indicated, and brought into use within one year from the passing of that Act; and the same should be constructed in a proper and workmanlike manner; and that the said Edwin Ernest Allan Oatley and John Thompson, their heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns should, at his or their cost, forth- with, upon the request in writing of the Commissioners for Railways, efficiently construct and thereafter maintain such sidings upon the said railway as the said Commissioners should consider necessary for the proper and convenient working of the said railway; and should have all necessary rights of ingress and egress to and over the surface of the streets, roads, and lands before referred to. and all such other rights as should be required for the construction, repair, completion, and use of the said railway; and that the gauge of the said railway shail be same gauge as the Government railways; and that the railway should throughout its course be laid at the general level of the said streets, roads, and lands, and throughout the whole extent of the said railway should be laid with rails subject to the approval of the Commissioners for Railways; and that where the railway should cross any public highway, parish road, on a level, the said Edwin Erncst Allan Oatley and John Thompson, their heirs, exccutors, adminis- trators, or assigns should erect, and at all times maintain, good and sufficient gates across such road on cach side of the railway, where the same shall communicate therewith, subject to certain provisions therein contained ; and that the said railway should he open to public use upon payment of the tolls or charges following, that is to say : For passengers a sum not exceeding sixpence per head each way ; for goods the same rate per mile as are charged on the Government railways, and for this purpose such railway shall be deemed to be a continuation of the Government railway between Sydney and Liverpool; and that the said Edwin Ernest Allan Oatley and John 'Thompson, their heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns should maintain in perfect order and repair the said railway and the pavements of the same between the rails of the said railway, where crossing any roads, and for the space of one foot six inches on each