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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/oswestry-light-railway-order-1995/article-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1995/2142",
  "legislation_title": "The Oswestry Light Railway Order 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/oswestry-light-railway-order-1995",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Gauge of railways and motive power",
  "text": "(1) The railway shall be operated on a nominal gauge of 1.435 metres (4 feet 8 inches) and the motive power shall be steam, diesel, diesel-electric, internal combustion, electric battery, or such other motive power as the Secretary of State may approve.\n(2) Nothing in this Order shall authorise the Society to use electrical power as motive power on the railway unless such power is obtained from storage batteries or from a source of generation entirely contained in and carried along with the engines and carriages.\n(3) If electrical power is used as motive power on the railway, such electrical power shall not be used in such a manner as to cause or be likely to cause any interference with any telecommunications apparatus (as defined in Schedule 2 to the Telecommunications Act 1984)or with telecommunication by means of any such apparatus.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1984 c. 12."
    }
  ],
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      "affecting_title": "The Communications Act 2003 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2003"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/2142/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:03:48.544781+00:00"
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  "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."
}