http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/345/article/8The Banchory and Crathes Light Railway Order 2012Rail transportLegislationGas supplyenTRANSPORTStatute Law Database2026-07-08Expert Participation2015-10-16 This Order, made following an application by The Deeside Railway Company Limited (“the Company”), empowers the Company to construct, make and maintain a railway on lands owned by, leased or licensed to the Company. 8 1 The Company may operate and use the railway as a system, or part of a system, of transport for the carriage of passengers and goods. 2 Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), the motive power to be used on the railway shall be steam, diesel-electric, diesel, internal combustion, electric-battery or such other motive power as the Scottish Ministers may in writing approve. 3 Nothing in this Order shall authorise the use of electrical power as motive power on the railway unless such power is obtained from storage batteries or from a source of generation entirely contained in, and carried along with, the engines and carriages. 4 If electrical power is used as motive power on the railway, such electrical power shall not be used in such a manner as to cause, or be likely to cause, any interference with any electronic communications apparatus or with the use of such apparatus. 5 Nothing in this Order, or in any enactment incorporated with or applied by this Order, shall prejudice or affect the operation of Part I of the Railways Act 1993. 6 The railway shall be operated on a gauge of 1.435 metres (four feet eight and one half inches). 1993 c.43, as amended by the Transport Act 2000 (c. 38) and the Railways Act 2005 (c.14). Art. 8 in force at 28.12.2012, see art. 1