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Article 3 Construction and maintenance of scheduled works

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(1)

Union Railways may construct and maintain the scheduled works, being—

(a)

works for a station at Stratford in London for use in connection with the rail link,

(b)

railways near St Pancras in London providing access between the rail link and the West Coast Main Line by means of a connection to the North London Line, and

(c)

works ancillary to the works mentioned in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) above.

(2)

Subject to paragraph (5) below, the scheduled works shall be constructed in the lines or situations shown on the deposited plans and in accordance with the levels shown on the deposited sections.

(3)

Union Railways may, for the purposes of or in connection with the scheduled works, do any of the following within the Order limits—

(a)

make, provide and maintain all such approaches, bridges, subways, interchanges, roundabouts, turning places, lifts, stairs, escalators, ramps, passages, means of access, shafts, stagings, buildings, apparatus, plant and machinery as may be necessary or convenient,

(b)

make junctions and communications (including the provision of steps or ramps for the use of persons on foot) with any highway or access way intersected or interfered with by, or contiguous to, any of those works, and widen or alter any highway or access way for the purpose of connecting it with any of those works or another highway, or of crossing under or over the highway or access way,

(c)

construct, provide and maintain all such embankments, aprons, abutments, retaining walls, wing walls, culverts and other works as may be necessary or convenient,

(d)

alter or remove any structure erected upon any highway or adjoining land,

(e)

alter the position of apparatus, including mains, sewers, drains and cables,

(f)

alter the course of, or otherwise interfere with, non-navigable rivers, streams or watercourses, and

(g)

carry out and maintain such other works, of whatever description, as may be necessary or expedient.

(4)

Union Railways may within the Order limits—

(a)

carry out and maintain landscaping and other works to mitigate any adverse effects of the construction, maintenance or operation of any of the authorised works, and

(b)

carry out and maintain works for the benefit or protection of land affected by any of the authorised works.

(5)

In constructing or maintaining any scheduled work, Union Railways may—

(a)

as regards a scheduled work not comprising Stratford station, deviate laterally from the lines or situations shown on the deposited plans within the limits of deviation for that work;

(b)

as regards the scheduled work comprising Stratford station, construct that work within the limit for Stratford station;

(c)

in any case, deviate vertically from the levels shown on the deposited sections—

(i)

to any extent not exceeding 3 metres upwards, or

(ii)

to any extent downwards.

(6)

Without prejudice to the generality of paragraphs (3) and (4) above, Union Railways may construct a pedestrian link at Stratford in the London Borough of Newham either—

(a)

between points X and Y, or

(b)

between point X and the existing subway serving Stratford station which is within the limit of deviation of Work No. 1E and identified on the deposited plans, with such works within that limit as may be necessary or expedient to make a connection of the link with that subway.

(7)

The power conferred by paragraph (3)(b) above does not include a power to extinguish any public right of way over any highway.