Strathfield Railway Crossing Act 1898 (NSW)

Act No. 39. 1898.

Strathfeld Railway Crossing.

Act No. 39, 1898.

r.ul™ crossino . to enable the Railway bonimissioners of

— New South Wales to close a certain level crossing- near Strathfiehl Railway Station,

• and to i)i‘ovide a way in siihstitution thereof; and to declare certain portions of that way to he a public thoroughfare. [24/A December, 1898.]

T ) E it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, by and with

1 f the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative

Assembly of New South M ales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Railway Com-

misHioner.s may close	1. The Railway Commissioners of New South M’ales are hereby authorised and empowered to close the level crossing over the land included within the lines of the boundary fences of the railway between Sydney and Parramatta, situate adjacent to the western end of the Strathfield platforms, and distant seven miles sixteen chains from Redfern Railway Station, and provided to give access across the railway line between the Boulevard on the southern and Everton-road and Moseley-street on the northern side of the railway at Strathfield Station.
level crossing.
On and after the publication of a notification in the Gazette by the said Commissioners that the said crossing has been closed under the authority of this Act, all rights-of-way on and over such crossing shall be extinguished.
rommissiouer.8 shall

provide overhead	2. The said Commissioners shall in substitution for such level
So much of the way

bridge.	crossing and before closing the same provide and open for public traffic
outside railway fence	an overhead bridge and approaches thereto extending from the Boulevard
is declared to be	to Everton-road, and so much of the land comprising the way provided
publicthoroughfarc.	by such overhead bridge and approaches as is not situate within the lines of the boundary fences of the railway is hereby declared to be a public thoroughfare.

Sliort till(5. 3. This Act may be cited as the “ Strathfield Railway Crossing

Act, 1898.”

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