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CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF WORKS
CHAPTER IV
CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF WORKS
11.
Power of railway administrations to execute all necessary works.
11. Power of railway administrations to execute all necessary
works.-Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the
time being in force, but subject to the provisions of this Act and the
provisions of any law for the acquisition of land for a public purpose
or for companies, and subject also, in the case of a non-Government
railway, to the provisions of any contract between the non-Government
railway and the Central Government, a railway administration may, for
the purposes of constructing or maintaining a railway--
(a) make or construct in or upon, across, under or over any
lands, or any streets, hills, valleys, roads, railway, tramways,
or any rivers, canals, brooks, streams or other waters, or any
drains, water-pipes, gas-pipes, oil-pipes, sewers, electric
supply lines, or telegraph lines, such temporary or permanent
inclined-planes, bridges, tunnels, culverts, embankments,
adequcts, bridges, roads, lines of rail, ways, passages, conduits,
drains, piers, cuttings and fences, in-take wells, tube wells,
dams, river training and protection works as it thinks proper;
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(b) alter the course of any rivers, brooks, streams or other
water courses, for the purpose of constructing and maintaining
tunnels, bridges, passages or other works over or under them and
divert or alter either temporarily or permanently, the course of
any rivers, brooks, streams or other water courses or any roads,
streets or ways, or raise or sink the level thereof, in order to
carry them more conveniently over or under or by the side of the
railway;
(c) make drains or conduits into, through or under any lands
adjoining the railway for the purpose of conveying water from or
to the railway;
(d) erect and construct such houses, warehouses, offices and
other buildings, and such yards, stations, wharves, engines,
machinery apparatus and other works and conveniences as the
railway administration thinks proper;
(e) alter, repair or discontinue such buildings, works and
conveniences as aforesaid or any of them and substitute others in
their stead;
(f) erect, operate, maintain or repair any telegraph and
telephone lines in connection with the working of the railway;
(g) erect, operate, maintain or repair any electric traction
equipment, power supply and distribution installation in
connection with the working of the railway; and