The Swanage Light Railway Order 1987

Power for the Company to make railway

5.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this Order the Company may construct, make and maintain the railway hereinafter described in the lines and according to the levels and within the limits of deviation shown on the deposited plans and the deposited sections and with all proper rails, plates, sidings, junctions, bridges, culverts, drains, approaches, roads, yards, buildings and other works and conveniences connected therewith;

(2) The said railway is:—

a railway 3 miles or thereabouts in length commencing in Swanage at the former Swanage Railway Station at a point immediately to the west of Rempstone Road and terminating at Harman’s Cross at a point two hundred and fifty metres to the west of the place at which Haycraft’s Lane crosses the former railway line, all in the District of Purbeck in the County of Dorset.

(3) Subject to the provisions of this Order, the Company’s railway or any part thereof shall be subject to all statutory and other provisions applicable to the Board’s railway or any part thereof (insofar as the same are still subsisting and capable of taking effect) and during the continuance of any lease granted under article 4(1) of this Order, the Company shall to the exclusion of the Board be entitled to the benefit of and to exercise all rights, powers and privileges and be subject to all obligations statutory or otherwise relating to the Board’s railway or any part thereof (insofar as the same are still subsisting and capable of taking effect) to the intent that the Board shall be released from all such obligations and in the event of such lease being terminated the County Council shall be entitled to the benefit of the said rights and shall also be subject to the said obligations.