Interpretation
2.—(1) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them:
“the Borough Council” means the Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council in the County of Tyne and Wear;
“the City Council” means the Sunderland City Council in the County of Tyne and Wear;
“the Company” means The Bowes Railway Company Limited incorporated under the Companies Act 1985(1) and whose registered office is at the Town Hall and Civic Centre, Burdon Road, Sunderland, SR2 7DN;
“the Corporation” means the British Coal Corporation (formerly the National Coal Board);
“the principal Act” means the Light Railways Act 1896;
“the former railway” means the former railway of the Corporation described in the Schedule to this Order;
“the Company’s railway” means the railway authorised to be constructed, made and maintained by the Company pursuant to article 4 of this Order and such parts thereof as shall have been constructed for the time being;
“the Council’s railway” means the railway authorised to be constructed, made and maintained by The Tyne and Wear County Council (Bowes Railway) Light Railway Order 1981(2) and now operated under powers vested in the Borough Council and the City Council(3).
(2) All directions and distances stated in the descriptions of the former railway shall be construed as if the words “or thereabouts” were inserted after each direction and distance, and distances between points on the railway shall be taken to be measured along the railway.