Parkes to Peak Hill Railway Act 1911 (NSW)

Act No. 14, 1911,

~Barkes to Peak Hill Railway.

Act No. 14, 1911.

i?““; ™ An Act to sanction the constniction of a line

—	01 railway from Parke s to Peak H ill; to
authorise the construction of the said line on public roads ; to amend the Public Works Act, 1900, so far as it relates to the making and maintaining of fences along the said line; to provide for the use of the said line by the Constructing Authority, or by persons authorised by him; and for other purposes consequent thereon or incidental thereto. [lÔ A November, 1911.]

Preamble.	VTTHEREAS in accordance with the provisions of the Public Works
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Act, 1900, the Legislative Assembly did by resolution declare that it was exjiedient to carry out a certain work, namely, the construc­ tion of a line of railway from Parkes to Peak Hill : And whereas, on the passing of the said resolution, a statutory duty was by the said Act imposed on the Minister for Public Works to introduce a Bill into the said Assembly to sanction the carrying out of the said work ; Be it therefore enacted by tke King’s Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South IVales in Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows :—

Sliort title. 1 . This Act may he cited as the “ Parkes to Peak Hill Railway

Act, 1911.”

Work sanctioned. 2 . The carrying out of the said work (more particularly described

in the Schedule to this Act), is hereby sanctioned, and the Minister for Public IVorks or the member of the Executive Council for the time being performing tbe duties of the said Minister, is hereby authorised to undertake and carry out the said work, subject to the provisions of this Act, and for that purpose shall bo and shall have

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the powers and duties of a Constructing Authority within the meaning

of the Public Works Act, 1900.

Phmof work 3. Tlic plan of tlic said work is the plan marked “ Parkes to Peak Hill Railway,” signed by the Minister for Public Works, and countersigned by the Chief Engineer for Railway and Tramway Construction, and deposited in the public ofB.ee of the said Minister.

Act No. 14, 1911.

Parkes to Peak Hill Paihoay.

4. The cost of carrying out the said work, estimated at one Cost, how to be

hundred and thirteen thousand one hundred and fifteen pounds, shall he defrayed from such loan votes as are now, or may hereafter be, applicable to that purpose, and shall not, under any circumstances, exceed the estimated cost by more than ten per centum.

5 . The said line of railway may be constructed on or along or Line may be

by the side of any public road or highway. constructed on road.

6. Notwithstanding the provisions of section eighty-four of Fencing not required

the Public Works Act, 1900, the Constructing Authority shall not he required or compelled, nor shall it he the duty of the said authority to make or maintain any fence along the said line of railway for the accommodation of any person or for any purpose whatsoever; hut the said authority may in his discretion make and maintain such fence in connection with the said line of railway as he may think fit.

7. The Constructing Authority and any persons authorised by Constructing

him may use the said line, - or any part thereof, before it is transferred

to the Chief Commissioner for llailways and Tramways, and for that

purpose may run thereon any carriages or wagons propelled or drawn	,
by any motive power.

SCHEDULE.

T his portion of .a connecting line between the Great Southern and Gre.at Western

llailways, begins by a junction with the Molong to Condobolin branch line, at two liundred and sixty-seven miles thirty-three chains from Sydney, and about half a mile west of Parkes station, and proceeds in a generally northern direction through part of the parish of Parkes, and through the parish of Goobang, in the county of Ashburnham, to the range dividing the waters of the Lachlan and Bogan Rivers, also forming the boundaries between the counties of Ashburnham and Kennedy, crosses that range, and in continuing northerly through the parishes of Davidson, Mickibri, Birrill, in the latter county, and par-t of Mingolo in the county of Narromine, pa.s.sos approximately four miles west of Ah-ctown, crosses Mickibri and Ten-mile Creeks, the latter immediately west of the town of Mingolo, descends the right bank of the latter creek for about four miles, to the south-eastern end of the station ground at Peak Hill, where the line ends by a junction with the Narromine to Peak Hill branch railway, at two hundred and ninety-eight and a halt miles from Sydney, vid Molong,—being a total distance of thirty- one miles seven chains, and subject to such deviations and modifications as may be considered desirable by the Constructing Authority.

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