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Such passenger or person may be expelled by such Station Master or other servant as aforesaid from the railway premises.

No gunpowder or other explosive or dangerous materials shall be carried by any passenger train.

Each passenger, on paying his fare, will be furnished with a ticket, which he is to show whenever required by any Station Master, or authorised Porter, or by the Guard in charge of the train; and if it be a return ticket, he must allow it to be marked when required; and every ticket (whether single return or periodical) must be delivered up on demand of any Porter or servant authorised 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 provisions 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 provisions 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 authorised by the Superintendent, 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 accommodation 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 exceeding 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 authorised officer, travel outside of a carriage or any railway under any circumstances, 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 exceeding 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 authorised crossing-place or elsewhere, when an approaching train is in sight, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

No driver or conductor of any cab, hackney carriage, omnibus, express, or other public vehicle, shall ply for hire within the railway premises without a license in writing from the Superintendent or other authorised 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 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 authorised by the Superintendent, 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 refreshment-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 employ on or about the railway or wharf with intoxicating liquor, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding two pounds, and shall be dismissed 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 promissory 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, and a special agreement entered into for the same; nor for any loss or damage to any goods in their hands as carriers (or in their warehouses, or on their landing-places, arising from fire (except from their own engine or apparatus), the act of God, civil commotion, or foreign enemies; nor for the loss of or damage done to goods put into boxes or packages described as empties; nor for damage of any packages or packages insufficiently or improperly packed, or containing a variety of articles liable by breaking to damage each other or other articles; nor for leakage; nor for any loss or damage whatsoever by reason of accidental or unavoidable delays in transit or otherwise.

No claim for loss or damage will be allowed unless specified in writing and made within two days after delivery in case of partial loss or damage, or within seven days after the due time of delivery in case of total loss.

The railway will refuse to receive for carriage any goods which, in the judgment of their agents may be of a dangerous character.