The Trafford Park Railway Order 1995

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order authorises the operation, use and maintenance of a new length of railway and ancillary works constructed to form part of the Trafford Park freight railway undertaking and the abandonment of certain lengths of the undertaker’s existing railway, consequential upon commissioning of the new length of railway and ancillary works.

Ancillary to that main purpose this Order authorises the stopping up of part of Trafford Park Road to provide an adequate safety zone for the operation of part of the existing railway.

Article 11 and Schedule 2 provide for a Manually Operated Crossing Protection system located on the new length of railway. The controls of this system are interlinked with those of the road traffic light signal system controlling road traffic on the Ashburton Road roundabout (Village Circle) so that road traffic can be brought under road traffic light signal control when it is required to pass a train through the carriageways, footways and cycleways forming the road traffic system.

This Order is supplemental to the West Manchester Light Railways Orders 1890 to 1906 and the Trafford Park Acts 1904 to 1922.

Copies of this Order and the deposited plans are available for inspection free of charge, Mondays to Fridays between the hours of 9.00 am and 5.00 pm, at the following offices:

Trafford Park Company, Neil House, Twining Road, Ashburton, Trafford Park, Manchester M17 1AT;

Trafford Park Development Corporation, Trafford Wharf Road, Wharfside, Trafford Park, Manchester M17 1EX;

Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council, Trafford Town Hall, Talbot Road, Stretford, Greater Manchester M32 0YX,

and at all reasonable hours at the offices of the Secretary of State, Great Minster House, 76 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DR.

The British Standards specification referred to in Schedule 2 paragraph 11 can be obtained from the British Standards Institution at 389 Chiswick High Road, London W4 4AL and also from HMSO bookshops.