Article 6 Gauge of railway and motive power

The Company’s new railways shall be maintained and operated on a gauge of 1,435 millimetres (4 feet 8½ inches) and the motive power shall be steam or internal combustion or such other motive power as the Secretary of State may approve:

• Provided that nothing in this Order shall authorise the Company to use electrical power as motive power unless such power is obtained from storage batteries or from of a source of generation entirely contained in and carried along with the engine and carriages;

• Provided also that, if electrical power is used as motive power on the Company’s new railways, such electrical power shall not be used in such a manner as to cause or be likely to cause any interference with any telecommunication apparatus (as defined in Schedule 2 to the Telecommunications Act 1984^f1) or with telecommunication by means of such apparatus.