# The Railways (Access, Management and Licensing of Railway Undertakings) Regulations 2016, Paragraph 9

Extent: E+W+S

As regards temporary restrictions of the capacity of railway lines, for reasons such as infrastructure works, including associated speed restrictions, axle load, train length, traction, or structure gauge (‘capacity restrictions’), of a duration of more than seven consecutive days and for which more than 30% of the estimated traffic volume on a railway line per day is cancelled, re-routed or replaced by other modes of transport, the infrastructure managers concerned must publish all capacity restrictions and the preliminary results of a consultation with the applicants for a first time at least 24 months, to the extent they are known, and, in an updated form, for a second time at least 12 months before the change of the working timetable concerned.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/645/schedule/4/paragraph/9 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/railways-access-management-and-licensing-of-railway-undertakings-regulations-2016/schedule-4/paragraph-9
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