Article 6 Level crossing

The undertaker may construct the authorised railway so as to carry it over the level crossing and across the specified highway given in Part I of Schedule 2 to this Order.

The undertaker may provide, maintain and operate at or near the new level crossing the protective equipment specified in Part II of Schedule 2 to this Order or such additional or substituted protective equipment as the Secretary of State may in writing approve.

In paragraph (2) above “protected equipment” includes lights, traffic signs (within the meaning of section 64(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984^f1), manual, mechanical, automatic, electrical and telephone equipment and other devices.

Any traffic sign placed pursuant to this article on or near a highway or other road to which the public has access shall be treated for the purposes of section 64(4) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 as having been authorised under that subsection.

The undertaker may in the exercise of the powers of this article alter the level of the highway.

The highway authority may enter into agreements with the undertaker with respect to the construction and maintenance of the level crossing; and such an agreement may contain such terms as to payment or otherwise as the parties consider appropriate.