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PART 3STREETS

Stopping up of streets

19.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this article, Network Rail may, in connection with the carrying out of the authorised works, stop up the street specified in columns (1) and (2) of Schedule 3 (street to be stopped up) to the extent specified in column (3) of that Schedule.

(2) Where a street has been stopped up under this article—

(a)all rights of way over or along the street so stopped up are extinguished; and

(b)Network Rail may appropriate and use for the purpose of its railway undertaking so much of the site of the street as is bounded on both sides by land owned by Network Rail.

(3) Any person who suffers loss by the suspension or extinguishment of any private right of way under this article is entitled to compensation to be determined, in case of dispute, as if it were a dispute under Part 1 of the 1961 Act.

(4) This article is subject to paragraph 2 of Schedule 6 (provisions relating to statutory undertakers, etc.) to this Order.