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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railway-safety-regulations-1999/schedule/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railway-safety-regulations-1999/schedule/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2244",
  "legislation_title": "The Railway Safety Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railway-safety-regulations-1999",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "“Railway” means a system of transport employing parallel rails which provide support and guidance for vehicles carried on flanged wheels and form a track which either is of a gauge of at least 350 millimetres or crosses a carriageway (whether or not on the same level), except that it does not include–\n(a) a tramway;\n(b) any part which runs along and at the same level as a street or in any other place to which the public has access (including a place to which the public has access only on making a payment);\n(c) any part where the permitted speed is such as to enable the driver to stop the train in the distance he can see ahead in clear weather conditions;\n(d) any part normally used other than for the carriage of fare paying passengers; or\n(e) such a system if on no part of it there is a line speed exceeding 25 miles per hour.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/599",
      "affecting_title": "The Railways and Other Guided Transport Systems (Safety) Regulations 2006"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2244/schedule/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:07:46.935992+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."
}