General Tramways Act 1884

The promoters from time to time may dig up and alter the surface of any road, and with the consent of the road authority temporarily stop the traffic thereof, for the purpose of making, forming, laying down, maintaining and renewing any tramway duly authorised, or any part or parts thereof respectively, upon, over, or through any road, or over any river or stream, subject to the following regulations:

they shall give to the road authority notice of their intention so to do, specifying the time at which they will begin, and the portion of road proposed to be opened or broken up; such notice to be given seven days at least before the commencement of the work;

they shall not open or break up any road except under the superintendence and to the reasonable satisfaction of the road authority, unless that authority refuses or neglects to give such superintendence at the time specified in the notice, or discontinues the same during the work;

they shall not alter the level of any road unless authorised so to do by the special Act, and in all cases in which they do so alter the level they shall alter the level over the whole width of the road, and remake and remetal the same to the satisfaction of the road authority;

they shall pay all reasonable expenses to which the road authority is put on account of such superintendence;

they shall not, without the consent of the road authority, open or break up at any one time and place a greater length than one hundred yards of any road, and they shall leave an interval of at least three hundred yards between any two places at which they shall open or break up any road at the same time.

Where the carriage-way in or upon which any tramway is proposed to be formed or laid down is crossed by any railway or tramway on the level, any work which the promoters may be empowered to construct, and which affects or in anywise interferes with such railway or tramway or the traffic thereon, shall be constructed and maintained under the superintendence (at the cost of the promoters) and to the reasonable satisfaction of the person, corporation, company, or authority owning such railway or tramway, unless, after notice to be given by the promoters seven days at least before the commencement of such work, such superintendence is refused or withheld.