✨ Railway By-law Regulations
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must be delivered up on the demand of any Porter or
servant authorized to collect tickets. Single tickets
not used on the day of issue, or a return ticket not
used within the prescribed time, shall be deemed to be
cancelled. Any person offending against the provi-
sions of this regulation shall be liable to a penalty not
exceeding five pounds.
Tickets are not transferable, and any person using
or attempting to use a transferred ticket, or a ticket
the time for the proper use of which has expired,
shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.
Any person knowingly, and with intent to defraud,
travelling upon the railway in a carriage of a superior
class to that for which he is provided with a ticket,
or altering a return or other ticket, shall be liable to
a penalty not exceeding ten pounds.
Tickets, whether single or return, shall be used by
passengers only to convey them to the station named
thereon, or to a station short of that destination.
In no case, however, shall any "cheap excursion"
ticket be used for any other station than that for
which such ticket is issued. Any person using or
attempting to use a ticket in violation of the provi-
sion of this section, shall be liable to a penalty not
exceeding two pounds.
No person will be allowed to break his journey by
stopping at any intermediate station, and thereafter
proceeding by a subsequent train with the same
ticket, under a penalty not exceeding two pounds.
Any person, not duly authorized by the Superin-
tendent, who shall sell or offer for sale any free pass
ticket or portion of a return ticket, shall be liable to
a penalty not exceeding two pounds.
No male passenger shall be allowed to enter any
waiting-room or carriage set apart for the accom-
modation of females; and any person remaining in
any such room or carriage after being warned to
leave the same, shall be liable to a penalty not ex-
ceeding two pounds.
Any person, not being a railway servant, who shall
open any carriage for the purpose of entering the
same after the tickets have been examined and the
carriage doors locked by the person appointed for
that purpose, or who shall let himself out of any
carriage, or attempt to do so, at any station or at any
time during the journey, by the use of a private key
or other instrument, shall be liable to a penalty not
exceeding two pounds.
No person shall, without the consent of the
Superintendent or other authorized officer, travel
outside a carriage on any railway under any circum-
stances, or get into or upon or quit any railway
carriage when the train is in motion; and any person
doing so, or attempting to do so, shall be liable to a
penalty not exceeding two pounds.
Smoking is strictly prohibited in any of the railway
sheds, offices, or waiting-rooms; and any person found
so smoking shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding
two pounds.
Smoking is strictly prohibited in any railway
carriage except those set apart for the purpose; and
any person found smoking in a carriage not set
apart for the purpose, shall forfeit a penalty not ex-
ceeding two pounds, and may be removed from the
carriage by any railway servant.
Dogs will be conveyed and charged for according
to printed conditions, but will not on any account
be allowed to accompany passengers in the carriages.
Any person persisting in taking a dog into a passenger
carriage, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding
two pounds.
No gratuity shall be, under any circumstances,
allowed to be received by a railway servant on pain
of dismissal. Any person giving or offering a gratuity
to any such servant, shall be liable to a penalty not
exceeding two pounds.
Any person making use of insulting or abusive
language to any railway officer or servant while in
the execution of his duty, or making use of indecent
or blasphemous language in any carriage or upon
any railway platform or premises, shall be liable to a
penalty not exceeding five pounds.
Any person in or upon any railway carriage or
station, being in a state of intoxication, or committing
any nuisance, or gambling, or wilfully interfering
with the comfort of any passenger, shall be liable
to a penalty not exceeding five pounds, and to
removal from such carriage or station as soon as
shall be practicable.
Any person driving or attempting to drive sheep,
horses, cattle, or other animals across the railway,
either at an authorized crossing-place or elsewhere,
when an approaching train is in sight, shall be liable
to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds.
No driver or conductor of any cab, hackney car-
riage, omnibus, express, or other public vehicle, shall
ply for hire within the railway premises without a
license in writing from the Superintendent or other
authorized officer; and any person offending contrary
to this section, shall be liable to a penalty not
exceeding five pounds.
No person will be allowed to come upon any
railway platform for the purpose of removing any
passenger or luggage, unless required by a passenger
and engaged by him for such purpose, and no person
will be allowed to come upon any railway premises
for the purpose of soliciting custom or hire. Any
person attempting to evade or being guilty of a
breach of this section, or not quitting the premises
when required by a Station Master or other railway
servant, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding
two pounds.
Any person, unless authorized by the Superin-
tendent, who shall post or stick any placard or bill
within or on any of the property or premises, shall
be subject to a penalty not exceeding two pounds.
Any person who shall wilfully injure, wholly or in
part, any of the linings or blinds, or break or deface
any of the windows, or remove or injure any number-
plate or advertisement, or remove or extinguish any
of the lamps, or otherwise damage any railway
carriage, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding
five pounds, in addition to the payment of the
amount of damage done.
No article shall be sold on any railway premises
without the consent of the Superintendent, and every
person offending against the provisions of this section
shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds.
All persons employed on or about the railway or
wharf are strictly prohibited from using the refresh-
ment-room; and every such person partaking of
intoxicating liquor at such refreshment-room will be
liable to instant dismissal.
Any person attending upon the refreshment-room
who shall supply an employé on or about the railway
or wharf with intoxicating liquor, shall be liable to a
penalty not exceeding two pounds, and shall be dis-
missed from their service.
Merchandise.
The railway will not be accountable for any articles
unless the same be signed for as received by their
clerks or agents; nor will they be responsible for the
loss of or damage to money in cash, or bills, or pro-
missory notes, or securities for money or jewellery,
trinkets, rings, precious stones, bullion, gold and
silver plate, clocks, watches, mirrors, marbles, lace,
furs, silks, writings, title deeds, prints, paintings,
maps, or other valuables; nor for damage done to
china, glass, musical instruments, furniture, toys,
castings, or any other such hazardous or brittle
articles, unless they shall have been declared as such,
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Order in Council Confirming Dunedin-Port Chalmers Railway By-laws
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🏗️ Infrastructure & Public Works28 May 1873
Railway regulations, Tickets, Penalties, Conduct, Smoking, Dogs, Gratuities, Merchandise, Dunedin, Port Chalmers
NZ Gazette 1873, No 34A