Railways Act (with its variations) is a stock short title used in India, Malaysia and the United Kingdom for legislation relating to railways.
List India The Indian Railways Act 1890 The Railways Act, 1989
Malaysia The Railways Act 1991 The Railways (Successor Company) Act 1991
United Kingdom The Railway Regulation Act 1844 (7 & 8 Vict. c. 85) see also Parliamentary train The Regulating the Gauge of Railways Act 1846 (9 & 10 Vict. c. 57) The Railway Clearing Act 1850 (13 & 14 Vict. c. xxxiii) The Railways Act 1873 (36 & 37 Vict. c. 48) The Light Railways Act 1896 (59 & 60 Vict. c. 48) The Railways Act 1921 (11 & 12 Geo. 5. c. 55) The Transport Act 1947 (10 & 11 Geo. 6. c. 49) The Railways Act 1993 (c. 43) The Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003 (c. 20) The Railways Act 2005 (c. 14)
The Railway and Canal Traffic Acts 1854 to 1894 is the collective title of the following Acts:The Short Titles Act 1896, section 2(1) and Schedule 2 The Railway and Canal Traffic Act 1854 (17 & 18 Vict. c. 31) The Regulation of Railways Act 1873 (36 & 37 Vict. c. 48) The Board of Trade Arbitrations Act 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 40), Part II The Railway and Canal Traffic Act 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 25) The Railway and Canal Traffic Act 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. 44) The Railway and Canal Traffic Act 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 54)
The Railway Regulation Acts 1840 to 1893 is the collective title of the following Acts:The Short Titles Act 1896, section 2(1) and Schedule 2 The Railway Regulation Act 1840 (3 & 4 Vict. c. 97) The Railway Regulation Act 1842 (5 & 6 Vict. c. 55) The Railway Regulation Act 1844 (7 & 8 Vict. c. 85) The Regulation of Railways Act 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 119) The Regulation of Railways Act 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 78) The Railway Regulation Act (Returns of Signal Arrangements, Working, &c.) 1873 (36 & 37 Vict. c. 76) The Regulation of Railways Act 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. 57) The Railway Regulation Act 1893 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 29)
See also List of short titles Bills C-1 and S-1
References
External links House of Lords Archive: An Act for Regulating Railways 1840 House of Lords Archive: An Act to attach certain Conditions to the Construction of future Railways 1844 House of Lords Archive Railway Clearing Act 1850 House of Lords Archive: An Act for regulating the Gauge of Railways 1850 House of Lords Archive: Regulation of Railways Act, 1889