TRANSPORT AND WORKS ACT 1992

BITTON RAILWAY ORDER

Notice is hereby given that application is being made by the Bitton Railway Company Limited (“the Company”) to the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions for an Order under sections 1 and 5 of the Transport and Works Act 1992, for purposes of which the following is a concise summary:
1. To authorise the Company to reconstruct and maintain a part of the former Bath to Bristol railway (380 metres in length) commencing in South Gloucestershire, parish of Bitton, at a point 30 metres north-west of the river Avon bridge, crossing the river by the existing bridge and terminating in Bath and North East Somerset, parish of Saltford, at a point 300 metres south-east of the river Avon bridge. The reconstructed railway will be laid beside the Bath to Bristol Railway Path and the Order will authorise the stopping-up and diversion of part of that path.
2. To incorporate, with or without modification, certain enactments; to make special provision for the reconstruction, maintenance and operation of the said railway, including power to operate that railway for the carriage of passengers and goods; and to provide for the transfer by the Company of the said railway and of the railway in South Gloucestershire authorised by the Bitton Light Railway Order 1991.
And notice is further given that:
(a) A waiver direction has been given by the Secretary of State in respect of certain provisions of the Transport and Works (Applications and Objections Procedure) Rules 1992 and forms one of the documents submitted with the application.
(b) A copy of the application and of all plans and other documents submitted with it may be inspected, free of charge, from 19th April until 31st May 2000, at the following places and times:
Bitton Railway Station, Willsbridge, Bristol, between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. every day (including Sunday), and
Saltford Public Library, 478 a Bath Road, Saltford, between 1.30 p.m. and 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Thursday, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Friday and 9.30 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Saturday. (The library is closed every Monday, Wednesday and Sunday and, owing to the Easter and May bank holidays, will be closed on 21st to 26th April inclusive and on 1st May.)
(c) Any person may object to the making of the Order by giving notice in writing not later than 31st May 2000, to the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, Department of the Environment, Transport and Regions, c/o the TWA Processing Unit, Zone 3/11, Great Minster House, 76 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DR. An objection will not be valid unless it (i) is received by the due date, (ii) is made in writing, (iii) states the grounds of objection, and (iv) gives the objector’s name and address.
All requests for further information, and notices or other documents required to be served upon the applicants, may be sent to the under-mentioned Solicitors and Parliamentary Agents.
Winckworth Sherwood, 35 Great Peter Street, Westminster, London SW1P 3LR, Solicitors and Parliamentary Agents.
18th April 2000.