The Duffield and Wirksworth Light Railway Order 1996

Gauge of the Company’s Railway and motive power

5.—(1) The Company’s Railway shall be operated on a gauge of 1435 millimetres and the motive power shall be diesel or steam or internal combustion or such other motive power as the Secretary of State may approve in writing.

(2) Nothing in this Order shall authorise the Company to use electrical power as motive power on the Company’s railway unless such power is obtained from storage batteries or from a source of generation entirely contained in and carried along with the engine and carriages.

(3) If electrical power is used as motive power on the Company’s Railway, such electrical power shall not be used in such a manner as to cause, or be likely to cause, any interference with telecommunications apparatus (as defined in Schedule 2 to the Telecommunications Act 1984(1)) or with telecommunication by means of such apparatus.