Paragraph 74

Regardless of the temporary stopping up or diversion of any highway under the powers of article 13 (temporary closure, alteration, diversion or restriction of streets and public rights of way), the statutory undertaker is at liberty at all times to take all necessary access across any such stopped up highway and/or to execute and do all such works and things in, upon or under any such highway as is be reasonably necessary or desirable to enable it to maintain any apparatus which at the time of the stopping up or diversion was in that highway.