The Network Rail (West Coast Main Line) Order 2003

Principal Powers

Power to construct and maintain certain works

4.—(1) Network Rail may construct and maintain the scheduled works.

(2) Subject to article 6, the scheduled works shall be constructed in the lines or situations shown on the deposited plans and in accordance with the levels shown on the deposited sections.

(3) Network Rail may on the land specified in columns (1) and (2) of Parts I and II of Schedule 2 to this Order carry out and maintain any works specified in relation to that land in column (3) of those Parts of that Schedule with all necessary works and conveniences in connection therewith.

Power to construct and maintain ancillary works

5.—(1) Subject to paragraph (3), Network Rail may do such of the following as may be necessary or expedient for the purposes of, in connection with or in consequence of, the construction of the authorised works, namely—

(a) construct and maintain such offices and other buildings, yards, machinery, plant, apparatus and other works and conveniences as Network Rail thinks fit;

(b) make, provide and maintain all such approaches, bridges, subways, interchanges, roundabouts, turning places, lifts, stairs, escalators, ramps, passages, means of access, shafts and stagings as Network Rail thinks fit;

(c) make junctions and communications (including the provision of steps or ramps for the use of persons on foot) with any highway or access way intersected or interfered with by, or contiguous to, any of those works, and widen or alter any highway or access way for the purpose of connecting it with any of those works or another highway, or of crossing under or over the highway or access way;

(d) construct, provide and maintain all such embankments, aprons, abutments, retaining walls, wing walls, culverts and other works as may be necessary or convenient;

(e) alter or remove any structure erected upon any highway or adjoining land;

(f) alter the position of apparatus, including mains, sewers, drains and cables; and

(g) alter the course of, or otherwise interfere with, non-navigable rivers, streams or watercourses.

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), Network Rail may carry out and maintain such other works (of whatever nature) as may be necessary or expedient for the purposes of, in connection with or in consequence of, the construction of the authorised works.

(3) Paragraphs (1) and (2)—

(a) shall only authorise the carrying out or maintenance of works outside the limits of deviation for the scheduled works if the works are carried out on land specified in columns (1) and (2) of Parts I and II of Schedule 2 to this Order for the purpose specified in relation to that land in column (3) of those Parts of that Schedule; and

(b) shall not authorise the carrying out or maintenance of works to alter the course of, or otherwise interfere with, navigable rivers or watercourses.

(4) Any power authorised by paragraph (1)(c) which affects a highway shall not be exercised without the written consent of the relevant highway authority, but such consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

(5) Network Rail may within the Order limits—

(a) carry out and maintain landscaping and other works to mitigate any adverse effects of the construction, maintenance or operation of the authorised works; and

(b) carry out and maintain works for the benefit or protection of land affected by the authorised works.

Power to deviate

6.  In constructing or maintaining any of the scheduled works, Network Rail may—

(a) deviate laterally from the lines or situations shown on the deposited plans within the limits of deviation for that work shown on those plans; and

(b) deviate vertically from the levels shown on the deposited sections—

(i) in the case of Work Nos. 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 16C, 23, 24, 25, 29, 30 and 31, to any extent not exceeding 0.75 metres upwards or downwards; and

(ii) in the case of any of the remaining works, to any extent not exceeding 3 metres upwards or downwards.