{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-clauses-act-1863/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-clauses-act-1863/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/26-27/92",
  "legislation_title": "Railways Clauses Act 1863",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-clauses-act-1863",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Trains not to be shunted over level crossings.",
  "text": "Where the company is authorized by the special Act to carry the railway across a turnpike road or public carriage road on a level, it shall not be lawful for the company in shunting trains to pass any train over the level crossing, or at any time to allow any train, engine, carriage or truck to stand across the same.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 3-5, 12 incorporated (with modifications) (29.4.1992) by S.I. 1992/1113, art. 3(1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 5 incorporated (29.6.1995) by S.I. 1995/2143, art. 3(2)S. 5 excluded (31.3.1994) by 1994 c. iv, s. 15(3) (with s. 28)S. 5 incorporated (with modifications) (4.4.1996) by S.I. 1996/937, art. 3(2)(3)S. 5 incorporated (with modifications) (16.10.1996) by S.I. 1996/2660, art. 4(2)(3)S. 5 incorporated (2.11.1996) by S.I. 1996/2867, art. 3(2)S. 5 incorporated (with modifications) (9.10.1997) by S.I. 1997/2534, art. 3(2)(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 5 incorporated (with modifications) (E.W.S.) (3.7.2006) by Port of Blyth (Battleship Wharf Railway) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1518), arts. 1, 3(2), 3(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "S. 5 incorporated (with modifications) (E.W.S.) (14.10.2008) by Felixstowe Branch Line and Ipswich Yard Improvement Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2512), arts. 1, 3(2), 3(3) (with art. 36(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Ss. 5-7 incorporated (E.W.) (26.9.2012) by The Network Rail (Ipswich Chord) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/2284), arts. 1, 3(2) (with art. 26(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "S. 5 incorporated (with modifications) (E.W.S.) (6.11.2012) by The Network Rail (North Doncaster Chord) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/2635), arts. 1, 3(2), 3(3) (with art. 35(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "S. 5 incorporated (with modifications) (E.W.S.) (21.11.2013) by The Network Rail (Redditch Branch Enhancement) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/2809), arts. 1, 3(2), 3(3) (with arts. 27(2), 39, Sch. 10 paras. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C8",
      "text": "S. 5 incorporated (with modifications) (E.W.S.) (21.4.2014) by The Network Rail (Norton Bridge Area Improvements) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/909), arts. 1, 3(2), 3(3) (with art. 34(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C9",
      "text": "S. 5 incorporated (E.W.S.) (5.12.2022) by The Portishead Branch Line (MetroWest Phase 1) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/1194), arts. 1, 3(2)(a)(3) (with art. 51)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/26-27/92/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:06:23.000031+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."
}