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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/south-tynedale-railway-light-railway-order-1996/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/south-tynedale-railway-light-railway-order-1996/article-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1829",
  "legislation_title": "The South Tynedale Railway (Light Railway) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/south-tynedale-railway-light-railway-order-1996",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Level crossings",
  "text": "(1) The undertakers may in the construction of the railway make level crossings across the road and footpaths mentioned in column 1 of Schedule 2 to this Order at the locations mentioned in column 2 of that Schedule with a double line of rails or (in the case of Footpath No. 12) a single line of rails.\n(2) The undertakers shall provide and maintain at the level crossings mentioned in paragraphs 1 and 3 of the said Schedule 2 the signs specified in Schedule 3 to this Order.\n(3) (a) The undertakers shall provide, maintain and operate at or near the level crossing mentioned in paragraph 2 of the said Schedule 2 such barriers, gates or other protective equipment as the Secretary of State may from time to time approve in writing, and subject to such requirements as he may from time to time lay down.\n(b) In this paragraph “protective equipment” includes lights, traffic signs, (within the meaning of section 64(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, as prescribed in Schedule 3 of the Traffic Signal Regulations and General Directions 1994) manual, mechanical, automatic, electrical or telephonic equipment or other devices.\n(4) Where the undertakers are authorised by this Order to carry the railway across a footpath on the level, it shall not be lawful for the undertakers to shunt any train over the level crossing.\n(5) The Council and the Company may enter into agreements with respect to the construction and maintenance of the level crossings mentioned in Schedule 2 to this Order; and such an agreement may contain such terms as to payment or otherwise as the parties consider appropriate.\n(6) Notwithstanding anything in any enactment the undertakers shall not be required to erect or maintain a station or lodge at any of the level crossings mentioned in Schedule 2 to this Order or to provide keepers.\n(7) Section 30 (Company to erect stations or lodges and gates at level crossings) of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Carlisle Branch Railway Act 1846 shall not apply to any of the level crossings mentioned in Schedule 2 to this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1984 c. 27."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1994/1519."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1846 c. cccxciv."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1829/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:39:06.811864+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."
}