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(1)It shall be the duty of the Railways Board in the exercise of their powers under this Act to provide railway services in Great Britain and, in connection with the provision of railway services, to provide such other services and facilities as appear to the Board to be expedient, and to have due regard, as respects all those railway and other services and facilities, to efficiency, economy and safety of operation.
(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1
(3)Subject to this Act, the Railways Board shall have power—
[F2(a)to carry goods and passengers by rail within, to or from Great Britain,
(aa)to carry goods and passengers by rail between places outside Great Britain in so far as they consider it expedient to do so in connection with the exercise of their powers under paragraph (a) above,]
[F3(b)in the circumstances specified in sections 4 and 4A of this Act respectively, to carry goods by road and to secure the provision by other persons of services for the carriage of passengers by road]
(c)to operate the harbours owned or managed by the Railways Board, and to provide port facilities at those harbours,
(d)to consign goods on behalf of other persons from any place in Great Britain, or from any place to which the Railways Board have themselves carried the goods in question to any other place, whether in Great Britain or elsewhere,
(e)to store within Great Britain goods which have been or are to be carried by the Railways Board, and, so far as any premises provided for the purposes of that or any other part of their business are not required for those purposes, to use them to provide facilities for the storage of other goods,
(f)to enter into and carry out agreements—
(i)with carriers outside Great Britain for the through carriage of goods and passengers under one contract or at a through charge or in the same vehicles or containers, and
(ii)with any person engaged in coastal shipping for co-ordinating the activities of that person with those of the Board, and in particular for facilitating the through carriage of goods, for the quoting of through rates and for the pooling of receipts or expenses.
[F4(g)to do anything which appears to the Board to be expedient for the purposes of or in connection with the provision by the Board of railway services outside Great Britain.]
(4)Subsections (1) and (2) of this section shall not be construed as imposing, either directly or indirectly, any form of duty or liability enforceable by proceedings before any court to which the Board would not otherwise be subject.
Textual Amendments
F1S. 3(2) repealed by Transport (London) Act 1969 (c. 35), Sch. 6
F2S. 3(3)(a) substituted by Channel Tunnel Act 1987 (c. 53, SIF 102), s. 39(1)
F3S. 3(3)(b) substituted by Transport Act 1985 (c. 67, SIF 126), s. 139(2), Sch. 7 para. 6
F4S. 3(3)(g) added by Channel Tunnel Act 1987 (c. 53, SIF 102), s. 39(1)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 3(1) excluded by Transport Act 1981 (c. 56, SIF 126), s. 3(2); excluded (24.12.1994) by 1993 c. 43, s. 144(1), 150(1)(j); S.I. 1993/3237, art. 2(1).
C2S. 3(3)(e) extended by Transport Act 1968 (c. 73), s. 50(1)
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