Traffic signs
28.—(1) Network Rail may, for the purposes of or in connection with the construction or operation of the authorised works, place or maintain traffic signs on any street within the Order limits, or on any street in connection with any instrument made under article 29 (traffic regulation) or any other street as reasonably required for conveying information to traffic.
(2) Network Rail—
(a)must consult with the traffic authority as to the placing of signs; and
(b)unless the traffic authority is unwilling to do so and subject to any directions given under section 65(1) (powers and duties of traffic authorities as to placing of traffic signs) of the 1984 Act, must enter into arrangements with the traffic authority for any such signs to be placed and maintained by the traffic authority.
(3) Any power conferred by section 65 of the 1984 Act to give directions to a traffic authority or local traffic authority as to traffic signs includes a power to give directions to Network Rail as to traffic signs under this article; and, accordingly, the powers conferred by paragraph (1) are exercisable subject to and in conformity with any directions given under that section.
(4) Expressions used in this article and in the 1984 Act have the same meaning in this article as in that Act.
Section 65 was amended by section 153 of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42); section 168(1) of, and paragraph 48 of Part 2 of Schedule 8 to, the 1991 Act; section 48 of, and paragraph 29 of Schedule 4 to, the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40) and section 1(6) of, and paragraphs 70 and 82 of Schedule 1 to, the Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7).