The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-09-19 00:00:00

ATOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN, that the
111 LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAIL-
WAY COMPANY intend to APPLY to the Board
of Trade for the CONFIRMATION OF THE BYE-
LAWS contained in the Schedule hereto, which Bye-
Laws have been framed by the said Compan:le
the Loading,
e said Act, for Regulating the Conveyance,
and Unloading of Gunpowder, and other Explosives, on
the railways of the said Company, and for declaring
and regulating the other matters to which the said
Bye-Laws relate. And Notice is Hereby also Given,
that during one calendar month from the date of this
Notice, any loud authority, corporation, or person
Interested may forward objections or suggestions with
respect to the said Bye-Laws to the Asidstant Et
(Railway Department), Board of Trade, N'=
Gardens, S. W.

The SCHEDULE above referred to.
Bye-Laws for the regulation of the
Loading,
Unloading, and Conveyance of Explosives on t
Rail-
way, of the London and South-Western Railway
Company (herein-slier palled the Company), and as
the railways worked by thor,ompany, made under and
in pursuance of the Explosives Act, 1875 In Vict.,
chap. 17), and every other power and authority vested
In the Compay.
(a) The words and expressions used in the following
Bye-Laws shall respectively have and include the
ral seve meanings to them or defined in "The
Explosive. Act,1875, and in the Order of Her hiajestx
in CA:lance, dated sth of August, 1875, made in
pursuance of Section 108 of the said Act, unless the
subject or context otherwise requires.
(b) The term "Explosive" means and shall include
and apply to every article and substance mentioned am
or defined to be ar Explosive in and by the fled Section
of the said Act, or the said Order in Council, or any
Order in Council which may hereafter be made in
pursuance of the said Act.
(c) Where by any of these Bye-Laws any time is
proscribed or allowed for giving any notice to the
Company, or for the doing of any act by the Company,
such time shall he computed exclusively of Sunday,
Christmas Day, Good Friday, and any statutory Bank
Holiday.
L No carriage containing any Explosive which the
Company shall, by any notice or regulating for the
time being in force notify that they will not receive,
forward, or carry, ;shall be delivered to the Company
for coqveysmce, or be brought, sent, or forwarded to or
upon ny Railway of the Company.
2. No person shall send to the Company any con-
signment of Explosive, unless he has given to the
Company forty-eight hours previous 'soda in writing
of his intention to send such consignment, and stating
the true name, description, and quantity of the
Explossive proposed to be conveyed, and his own name
and address, and also the name and address of the
proposed consignee, and ham had an intimation in
writing from the Company that they are prepared to
receive such consignment.
3. Consignments of Explosive shall be sent to the
Company's forwarding Station, and shall be received
by their servants, only at such times during the hours
of daylight, that is toy, between sunrise and sunset,
as the Company may appoint ; and every consignment
and package containing any xplosiveroposed to be
conveyed on any Railway of the Company shall
immediately on the arrival thereof at the Company'.
Station, Wharf, or Railway, be delivered to and be
received .by the Company's servants authorised to
receive dangerous goods, and by no other person
whatsoever.

4. No explosive shall be loaded or unloaded on the
Company's premises by the consignor or consignee
thereof or their servants, except between sunrise and
sunset. _ _ _

-5. gaiety Cartridges and Percurion Caps and Safety.
fuse (for blaring) may be conveyed by Passenm
Train, provided all due precautions be taken by the
sender for the prevention of accident by fire or
explosion; also Railway Fog Signals for the Com-
pany's own use; but, except as aforesaid, no Explosive
whatever shall be convoyed by Passenger Train.
6. Gunpowder, or any Explosive made with Gun-
powder included in the 2nd division of the 6th
(ammunition) Clam of Explosives, as eified by the
said Order in Council of the sth of August, 1875, if
packed in metallic cylinders of a pattern approved by
the Company, and similar in construction and
security to those used by Government for the convey-
ance of small quantities of Gunpowder by Railway,
may be conveyed along with ordinary goo & traffio
a carriage not containing any article or substance liable
to cause or communicate fire or explosion.
7. No Explosive of the sth (fulminate) Class, nor
any Explosive of the 6th (ammunition) Class contain-
ing its own means of ignition, nor any Explosive of
the 7th (firework) Class shall be conveyed in the same
carriage with any Explosive not of the clew and
division to which it belongs, unless it be sufficiently
separated therefrom to prevent any fire or explosion
' which may take place in one such Explosive being
communicated to another.
8. There shall not be conveyed in the same carriage
with any Explosive any Lucifer Matches, Fuses,
Pipe-lights, Acids,Naphthe, Paraffin, Petroleum to
I which the Petroleum Act, 1871, or any Act repealing
or amending the same applies or any other volatile
spirit, or substance liable to give off an inflammable
vapour at a temperature below 100 degrees Fahrenheit,
or 'liable to spontaneous ignition, or to cause or com-
! minicar fire or explosion.
, 9. On each aids of every carriage containing any
Explosive there shall be affixed in conspicuous
characters, by means of a securely attached label or
otherwise, the word "Explosive," or the name of the
Explosive with the word "Explosive" except when
, containing Gunpowder or Ammunition packed in
metallic cylinders as provided for in the 6th of those
Bye-laws; and every carriage containing Explosive
, shall be placed as far as practicable from the engine
' attached to the train.
10. Not more than five carriages containing
Explosive shall be loaded or &lout& at or on any
Railway Station or Wharf of the Company, or be
attached to or conveyed by any one train at any one
time; and the quantity of Explosive to be contained
or loaded in any one such carriage at any one time
shall not excised 10,0001bs. in weight, provided always
that the quantity of Explosive to be contained or
loaded in any one such carriage shall not exceed
one ton in weight unless the carriage shall be a
I covered Van.
11. If the Explosive to be conveyed is not
effectually protected from accident by fire from
without, by toeing placed in the interior of a carriage
• which is enclosed on all sides with wood or metal, then
the Explosive shall be completely covered with painted
cloth, tarpaulin, or other suitable material, so as to
effectually protect it against communication of fire.
12. There shall not be any iron or steel in the
interior f the portion of the carriage where ths
Explosive is deposited, unless the same be covered
either permanently or temporarily with leather, wood,
cloth, sheet-lead, or other imitable material.
, 18. When the stowing of Explosive in any carriage,
' or the loading or unloading of any Explosive is under-
, takeseby any person other than the Company, all due
, precaution shall be taken by such person, by careful
stowing and loading and unloading and otherwise, to
prevent and secure such Explosive from being brought
; llnto contact with or endangered by any other article
or substance liable to cause fire or explosion.
14. In loading or unloading any Explosive, the
casks and packages containing the same shall, as far as
practicable, be pared from hand to hand, and not
rolled upon the ground, and in no case shall any such
casks or packages be rolled, unties hides, cloths, or
sheets have been previously laid down on the platform
or ground over which the same are to be rolled. Casks
or packages containing Explosive shall not be thrown
or tried down, but 'khan be carefully deposited and
sto
15. No person while employed in loading, stowing
in any carriage, or unloading any Explosive included
In Classes 1,2, 3,4, or 5 of the clarification of
Explosives as clarified by the said Order in Council
dated August sth, 1875, shall wear boots or shoes with
steal or iron nails, steel or iron heels, or tips of any
kind, or have about his person any Indior match,
explosive, or means of striking .a light; and all persona
employed in the loading, stowing or unloading of any
Explosive shall, while such loading, stowing, or
unloading are going on, abstain from smoking.
16. While the loading, unloading, or conveyance of
Explosive is going on, all persona engaged in such
loading, unloading, or conveyance shall observe all due
precautions for the prevention of accidents by fire or
explosion, and for preventing unauthorised parsons
having
_access to the Explosive so being loaded,
unloaded, or conveyed, and shall abstain from any act
whatever which tends to cause fire or explosion, and is
not reasonably nursery for the purpose of loading,
unloading, or conveyance of such Explosive, or of any
other article carried therewith, and for preventing any
other person from committing any such act ; and au&
other person who after being warned, commits any
such act shall be deemed to outwit a breach of theft
Bye-Laws.
17. The loading or unloadhig of Explosive into or
out of any carriage, when ones begun, eh& be pro-
curled with with all do. "mos until the same Is
completed.
18. Packages containing any Explosive must be
removed by the consignee from the Station, Wharf,
or Depot of the Company to which they have been
conveyed, as soon as practicable and with all due
diligence after arrival; and if not removed within 12
hours after arrival tbe packages and contents may be
forthwith sold by the Company, or otherwise disposed
of as dry think fit' and such packages shall in ths
meantime, and until such removal, are, or diePossi, be
completely covered over with painted cloth, tarpaulin,
or rim suitable material.
19. The Company may refuse to receive, forward,
early, or allow to be brought, or carried upon their
way, any carriage or which they us
to be or sent, or to contain any article or xmn
pack or sent in contravention of the said Act, or
any of these Bye-Laws, or not in accordance therewith,
and in cam any carriage iiiifcrikage which the
Company impact to be so sor out% or to
contain any such article cc thing am atemid, min to
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