✨ Railway By-Laws




SEPT. 4.]

  1. No person shall use or attempt to use a ticket on any
    day for which it is not available, or a ticket which has
    already been used on a journey.

  2. No person having paid the fare for a ticket entitling
    him to travel by an excursion train or any other specified
    train shall travel by any train other than that in respect of
    which such fare was paid without previously taking out the
    proper ticket and paying the proper fare therefore respectively.

  3. No person having used a ticket for any part of the
    route for which it is issued shall afterwards use if for
    travelling on any preceding part of such route.

  4. No person having paid the fare for a certain distance
    shall knowingly and wilfully proceed in any carriage beyond
    such distance without previously paying the additional fare
    for the additional distance.

  5. No person shall wilfully alter or deface a ticket issued
    by the Board so as to render the date, number, or other
    material part thereof illegible.

  6. Tickets are the property of the Board, and are in no
    case transferable. No person other than the person to whom
    a ticket has been issued shall travel or attempt to travel
    therewith, and no person to whom a ticket has been issued
    shall do any act by which any other person shall be enabled
    to travel or attempt to travel therewith.

  7. No person shall be entitled to enter, or, having entered,
    shall, without the leave of a servant as aforesaid, be entitled
    to remain in, any carriage which at the time of such entry
    shall contain the full number of persons it is constructed to
    carry. Any person who shall have entered a carriage under
    such circumstances shall leave it immediately upon being
    requested to do so by any such servant. A statement by
    such servant that such carriage is full, or to that effect, shall
    be conclusive evidence that such carriage contains the full
    number of persons it is constructed to carry.

  8. Except by express permission of some servant as
    aforesaid, no male person above or apparently above the
    age of eight years shall travel or attempt to travel or remain
    in any compartment of a carriage marked or otherwise
    indicated as being reserved or appropriated for the exclusive
    use of female persons. Any such male person who shall
    have entered any such carriage shall leave it immediately
    upon being requested to do so by any such servant. A
    statement by such servant that such carriage is so reserved
    or appropriated shall be conclusive evidence that such
    carriage is so reserved or appropriated.

  9. Except by special permission of the Board, a person
    suffering from any infectious or contagious disease or disorder
    shall not enter or remain or be in or upon the Board's
    premises, or travel or attempt to travel on the Board's
    railway; and the Board may refuse to receive or carry
    any such person, or to permit any such person to enter,
    remain, or be in or upon any part of the Board's premises,
    or to travel on the railway. Any person infringing this
    by-law shall, in addition to any other penalty, be liable to the
    Board for the cost of disinfecting the Board's premises and
    any carriage in which such person shall have been. Any
    person who has charge of any person so offending or who aids
    or assists any such person in so offending shall be deemed
    to infringe and offend against this by-law.

  10. Every passenger shall be entitled to have carried free of
    charge in the train in which he travels ordinary personal
    luggage to a weight not exceeding 112 lb. On any excess
    above that weight such passenger shall pay to the Board
    freight according to the scale set forth in the schedule of
    rates for the time being in force. Every passenger shall, on
    being requested by any servant as aforesaid so to do, allow
    his luggage to be weighed by or under the direction of such
    servant at any reasonable time.

  11. All luggage taken by a passenger or placed at his request
    in the carriage in which he travels shall be deemed to be under
    such passenger's own personal control and at his own exclusive
    risk during transit, and the Board shall be under no liability
    in respect thereof. The passenger to whom such luggage
    belongs, or who shall have control thereof as aforesaid, shall,
    immediately after the arrival of the train at the station at
    which he leaves it, remove from the train all such luggage.
    Any such luggage left by him in the train shall remain at his
    sole risk until removed as hereinafter provided.

  12. No servant of the Board shall have, or be deemed or
    assumed to have, any authority to undertake any charge or
    responsibility in respect of luggage brought to or left upon
    any station.

  13. Luggage not claimed and removed within twenty
    minutes after the arrival of the train at the terminus to which
    it is travelling will be taken to the luggage-room of the Board
    for safe custody. The Board shall be entitled to charge 6d.
    for each and every package, whether large or small, so taken
    to the luggage-room; and in addition 1d. for every day or
    fraction of a day after the day it is so taken to such luggage-

room during which it shall remain in the Board's custody.
Before such luggage shall be delivered to any person claiming
the same he shall pay all such charges to the Board and
in all other respects conform with these by-laws.

  1. The Board will not be responsible to the owner of any
    luggage carried by it as aforesaid to a greater value than Β£10,
    unless the full value thereof be declared in writing, signed by
    such owner, when the same was delivered to the Board for
    carriage, and unless insurance be paid thereon at the rate of
    6d. in the pound upon such declared value above the said sum
    of Β£10. In no case shall the Board be liable for more than the
    value so declared. Notwithstanding any such declaration of
    value, it shall be the duty of the person claiming or making
    any claim in respect of any such luggage to prove that such
    luggage was in fact of the declared value at the least at the
    time when such declaration was made.

  2. Luggage not claimed and removed within one calendar
    month after having been placed in a luggage-room as herein-
    before provided, or in a store as hereinafter provided in respect
    of luggage left at a flag station, shall be treated as abandoned
    by the owner thereof, and may at any time thereafter be sold
    by the Board at auction at the risk of such owner, in such
    manner, at such time, and subject to such conditions as the
    Board shall think fit. For the purposes of such sale the Board
    may cause any box, trunk, or other package whatsoever to be
    opened, and the contents examined and catalogued, if con-
    sidered necessary for the purposes of the sale.

  3. The moneys received upon any such sale shall be
    applied in the first place in payment of the costs of and
    incident to the sale, and in the next in the payment of the
    storage charges upon the luggage so sold, and the balance
    shall be held by the Board for the use of the owner of the
    luggage so sold, to be paid over to him on the due proof that
    he is the person entitled to such moneys.

  4. No claim for compensation for loss of luggage will in
    any case be recognized by the Board unless made in writing
    addressed to the Traffic Manager, and either delivered to
    him at his office within seven days after the date of the
    alleged loss, or posted to him addressed to such office at
    such a time that the letter so posted would if delivered in
    the ordinary course of post be delivered to him within the
    said period of seven days. Such writing shall contain a
    full description of any address or addresses on the said
    luggage, and the name of the station at which it was de-
    livered to the Board, and that of the station to which it was
    addressed, and a list, as far as practicable, of the contents
    of the box, trunk, or other package alleged to have been
    lost.

  5. With regard to the luggage of passengers joining or
    leaving a train at a flag station the following regulations
    shall apply, and where inconsistent with the foregoing by-law
    the following regulations shall prevail:

(1.) The luggage of any passenger joining a train at a
flag station, except such as he shall keep under his
personal control, shall be delivered by him to the
Guard of the train, to whom he shall at the same
time state the name of the station at which he
proposes to leave the train.

(2.) All luggage to be delivered at a flag station shall on
the arrival of the train thereat be placed upon the
platform of such station, and shall thereupon be
and remain at the risk of the owner of such luggage,
whether he be present to take charge of the same
or not. If such luggage be not removed from such
platform, and if there be a store or shed on such
station, the Board shall be at liberty (but not so
as to impose on the Board any liability in the event
of the Board not so doing) to put such luggage
into such store or under such shed so as to prevent,
as far as practicable, damage by rain or storm, and
such luggage shall thenceforth be and remain in
such store or shed at the risk of the owner as afore-
said.

(3.) If there be no store or shed at such station, then the
Board shall be at liberty (but so as not to impose
on the Board any liability in the event of the Board
not so doing) to carry such luggage on to the
nearest station at which the same can be stored
in a luggage-room or other place for the receipt
of goods, and such luggage shall thenceforth be
and remain therein at the risk of the owner as
aforesaid.

(4.) The Board shall be at liberty to charge in respect of
any luggage put into a shed or store as aforesaid
or carried on to a luggage-shed as aforesaid the
same amount of storage in respect of the time
during which such luggage shall be so kept by
the Board as the Board is entitled to do under
By-law 19 of this Part of the Board's by-laws.



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πŸš‚ Ohai Railway Board By-Laws (continued from previous page)

πŸš‚ Transport & Communications
25 August 1924
By-Laws, Railway Board, Ohai, Tickets, Luggage, Passengers