Sentence examples for railways act from inspiring English sources

The RPCs were set up under the Railways Act 1993 to protect the interests of users of the services and facilities provided on Britain's rail network.

The rail passengers committees are independent statutory bodies set up under the Railways Act 1993 to protect the interests of rail users.

The Railways Act of 1921, however, made special provisions with regard to the railways, and the Transport Act of 1962 enacted that the Railways Board shall not be regarded as a common carrier.

He has said that as one of the first moves of a Corbyn government, he would introduce a railways act in 2020 and run them in the public interest in line with social, economic and environmental goals.

The Railways Act 1993 and Transport Act 2000 give the SRA the power to regulate fares through its franchise agreements with the train operators, where this is in the interests of passengers.

Together with Lord Callaghan, he tabled more than 30 separate amendments to the bill that led to the privatisation of the railways in the Railways Act 1993, in an attempt to stall it.

However the presence of linear features in the form of rivers and railways acted as barriers to FMD transmission (odds ratio = 0.507, 95% CIs = 0.297,0.887, p = 0.018).

His Railway Act of 1844 set up minimum requirements for railroad companies and provided for eventual state purchase of railway lines.

For the country as a whole, the Pacific Railway Act of 1864 and subsequent legislation subsidizing the transcontinental railroads — the lines that crossed the continent from the 98th meridian to the Pacific Coast — were the worst laws money could buy.

Also helping spur that drive was the Pacific Railway Act of 1862, which began the construction of the first transcontinental railroad from Omaha and San Francisco, culminating with the famous linking of the Central and Union Pacific lines at Promontory, Utah seven years later.

The Attorney General ruled that it was legally sound, according to the 1866 Pacific Railway Act.