{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lydney-and-parkend-light-railway-extension-and-amendment-order-1994/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lydney-and-parkend-light-railway-extension-and-amendment-order-1994/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/1331",
  "legislation_title": "The Lydney and Parkend Light Railway (Extension and Amendment) Order 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lydney-and-parkend-light-railway-extension-and-amendment-order-1994",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Gauge of railway and motive power",
  "text": "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:\nProvided 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;\nProvided 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) or with telecommunication by means of such apparatus.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1984 c. 12."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/1331/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:33:05.116802+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}