{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-act-2005/section-57",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-act-2005/section-57.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2005/14",
  "legislation_title": "Railways Act 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-act-2005",
  "path": "section/57",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "57",
  "heading": "Meaning of “Wales-only service” and “Welsh service”",
  "text": "(1) In this Act—\n“Welsh component of a Welsh service” means a Welsh service (other than a Wales-only service) so far as it involves the carriage of passengers by railway in Wales, but not any part of the service excluded by subsection (1A);\n“Wales-only service” means a railway passenger service which—\n(a)starts and ends in Wales and does not make any other scheduled calls outside Wales; ...\n(b)...\n“Welsh service” means a railway passenger service which starts in Wales, ends in Wales or otherwise makes at least one scheduled call in Wales.\n(1A) For the purposes of the definition of “Welsh component of a Welsh service” in subsection (1) the following parts of a service are excluded—\n(a) any part of the service after the last scheduled call wholly in Wales before each occasion when the service leaves Wales;\n(b) any part of the service before the first scheduled call wholly in Wales after each occasion when the service enters Wales; and\n(c) any part of the service between two scheduled calls not wholly in Wales where there is no intervening scheduled call wholly in Wales.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 57(1) inserted (13.6.2018) by The Welsh Ministers (Transfer of Functions) (Railways) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/631), art. 1(2)(b)(xvi), Sch. para. 63(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 57(1) omitted (13.6.2018) by virtue of The Welsh Ministers (Transfer of Functions) (Railways) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/631), art. 1(2)(b)(xvi), Sch. para. 63(2)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 57(1) omitted (13.6.2018) by virtue of The Welsh Ministers (Transfer of Functions) (Railways) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/631), art. 1(2)(b)(xvi), Sch. para. 63(2)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 57(1A) inserted (13.6.2018) by The Welsh Ministers (Transfer of Functions) (Railways) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/631), art. 1(2)(b)(xvi), Sch. para. 63(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 57(2)(3) omitted (13.6.2018) by virtue of The Welsh Ministers (Transfer of Functions) (Railways) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/631), art. 1(2)(b)(xvi), Sch. para. 63(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 57 in force at 8.6.2005 by S.I. 2005/1444, art. 2(1), Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2005/14/section/57",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:16:06.853495+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}