The Manchester, Liverpool Road (Castlefield Properties Limited) Light Railway Order 1993

Power to make railway

5.—(1) The Company may on lands and works comprised in the Board’s railways or on any part thereof, construct, make and maintain the following railway with all the necessary works and conveniences connected therewith and work the same as a light railway under the principal Act and in accordance with the provisions of this Order:—

• In the Metropolitan County of Greater Manchester, partly in the City of Manchester and partly in the City of Salford—

  • A railway (137 metres in length) commencing in the City of Salford at a point on the west bank of the River Irwell 28 metres south-west of the western end of Princes Bridge, continuing thence in a generally easterly direction across the said river and terminating in the City of Manchester at a point by the south-east side of Water Street adjoining the junction of that street with the road carried by the said Princes Bridge.

(2) The railway shall be laid on the same levels as, and within the existing formation of, the Board’s railways.

(3) The foregoing description of the railway or anything otherwise contained in this Order shall not be deemed to prohibit or preclude the Company from making, constructing, laying or erecting any further branches, sidings, junctions and other conveniences with all rails, plates and other works in connection therewith provided and so far as the same shall be solely on land belonging to the Company and situated within the boundaries shown edged red on the deposited plan.