Railways Act (with its variations) is a stock

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Malaysia Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. Featuring the Tanjung Piai, southernmost point of continental Eurasia, it is a federation, federal constitutional monarchy consisting of States and federal territories of Malaysia, 13 states and thre ...

and the

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for legislation relating to

railway Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

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India

*The

Indian Railways Act 1890 Indian or Indians may refer to: Associated with India * of or related to India ** Indian people ** Indian diaspora ** Languages of India ** Indian English, a dialect of the English language ** Indian cuisine Associated with indigenous peoples o ...

*The

Railways Act, 1989 The Railways Act, 1989 is an Act of the Parliament of India which regulates all aspects of rail transport. The Act came into force in 1989, replacing the Railways Act of 1890. The Act provides in detail the legislative provisions regarding ra ...

Malaysia

*The Railways Act 1991 *The Railways (Successor Company) Act 1991

United Kingdom

* The

Railway Regulation Act 1844 The Railway Regulation Act 1844 ( 7 & 8 Vict. c. 85) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom providing a minimum standard for rail passenger travel. It provided compulsory services at a price affordable to poorer people to enable t ...

**see also

Parliamentary train A parliamentary train was a passenger service operated in the United Kingdom to comply with the Railway Regulation Act 1844 that required train companies to provide inexpensive and basic rail transport for less affluent passengers. The act req ...

*The

Regulating the Gauge of Railways Act 1846 The Railway Regulation (Gauge) Act 1846 ( 9 & 10 Vict. c. 57) or the Regulating the Gauge of Railways Act 1846 or the Gauge of Railways Act 1846 is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, that was designed to standardise railway track ...

( 9 & 10 Vict. c. 57) *The

Railway Clearing Act 1850 The Railway Clearing House (RCH) was an organisation set up to manage the allocation of revenue collected by pre-grouping railway companies for the conveyance of passengers and goods over the lines (or using the rolling stock) of other compani ...

*The Railways Act 1873 *The

Light Railways Act 1896 The Light Railways Act 1896 ( 59 & 60 Vict. c. 48) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. History Before the act each new railway line built in the country required a specific act of Parliament to ...

*The

Railways Act 1921 The Railways Act 1921 ( 11 & 12 Geo. 5. c. 55), also known as the Grouping Act, was an act of Parliament enacted by the British government, and was intended to stem the losses being made by many of the country's 120 railway companies, by "grou ...

*The

Transport Act 1947 The Transport Act 1947 ( 10 & 11 Geo. 6. c. 49) was an Act of Parliament of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Under the terms of the Act, the railway network, long-distance road haulage and various other types of transport were nationalised ...

*The

Railways Act 1993 The Railways Act 1993 (c. 43) was introduced by John Major's Conservative government and passed on 5 November 1993. It provided for the restructuring of the British Railways Board (BRB), the public corporation that owned and operated the nation ...

*The

Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003 The Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003 (c 10) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Purposes of the Act The purposes of the Act include:- *the creation of the Rail Accident Investigation Branch *the replacement of the Rail ...

*The

Railways Act 2005 The Railways Act 2005 (c. 14) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom concerning the regulatory structure for railways in the United Kingdom. Overview The bill was introduced and published on 25 November 2004 and received royal a ...

The Railway and Canal Traffic Acts 1854 to 1894 is the

collective title A collective title is an expression by which two or more pieces of legislation may, under the law of the United Kingdom, be cited together. A famous example is the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949. Construction of references to citation with a group ...

of the following Acts: *The Railway and Canal Traffic Act 1854 ( 17 & 18 Vict. c. 31) *The Regulation of Railways Act 1873 ( 36 & 37 Vict. c. 48) *The Board of Trade Arbitrations Act 1874 ( 37 & 38 Vict. c. 40), Part II *The

Railway and Canal Traffic Act 1888 The Railway and Canal Commission was a British court of record A court of record is a trial court or appellate court in which a record of the proceedings is captured and preserved, for the possibility of appeal. A court clerk or a court rep ...

( 51 & 52 Vict. c. 25) *The Railway and Canal Traffic Act 1892 ( 55 & 56 Vict. c. 44) *The Railway and Canal Traffic Act 1894 ( 57 & 58 Vict. c. 54) The Railway Regulation Acts 1840 to 1893 is the

of the following Acts:The Short Titles Act 1896, section 2(1) and Schedule 2 *The Railway Regulation Act 1840 ( 3 & 4 Vict. c. 97) *The Railway Regulation Act 1842 ( 5 & 6 Vict. c. 55) *The

( 7 & 8 Vict. c. 85) *The Regulation of Railways Act 1868 ( 31 & 32 Vict. c. 119) *The

Regulation of Railways Act 1871 Regulation is the management of complex systems according to a set of rules and trends. In systems theory, these types of rules exist in various fields of biology and society, but the term has slightly different meanings according to context. Fo ...

( 34 & 35 Vict. c. 78) *The Railway Regulation Act (Returns of Signal Arrangements, Working, &c.) 1873 ( 36 & 37 Vict. c. 76) *The

Regulation of Railways Act 1889 The Regulation of Railways Act 1889 ( 52 & 53 Vict. c. 57) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It is one of the Railway Regulation Acts 1840 to 1893. It was enacted following the Armagh rail disaster. Safety It empowered the B ...

( 52 & 53 Vict. c. 57) *The Railway Regulation Act 1893 ( 56 & 57 Vict. c. 29)

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House of Lords Archive: An Act for Regulating Railways 1840

House of Lords Archive: An Act to attach certain Conditions to the Construction of future Railways 1844

House of Lords Archive Railway Clearing Act 1850

House of Lords Archive: An Act for regulating the Gauge of Railways 1850

House of Lords Archive: Regulation of Railways Act, 1889
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Railway acts Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

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