C-14 - Railway Act

Section 226 Disposition versions

1977-12-31

226. (1)  Every railway company shall, according to its powers, afford all reasonable facilities to other railway companies for the receiving and forwarding and delivering of traffic upon and from the several railways belonging to or operated by such companies respectively, and for the return of cars, trucks, and other vehicles.

(2)  No company shall give or continue any preference or advantage to or in favour of any particular company, or any particular kind of traffic, in any respect whatsoever, nor shall any company subject any particular company or any particular kind of traffic to any prejudice or disadvantage in any respect.

(3)  Every railway company, owning or operating a railway, which forms part of a continuous line of railway, or which intersects any other railway, or which has any terminus, station or wharf of the one near any terminus, station or wharf of the other, shall afford all reasonable facilities for receiving and forwarding by the one railway all the traffic arriving by the other, without any unreasonable delay, and without any preference or advantage, or prejudice or disadvantage, so that no obstruction may be offered in the using of such railway as a continuous line of communication, and so that all reasonable accommodation may, at all times, by the means aforesaid, be mutually afforded by and to the said railway companies.

(4)  Any agreement made between any two or more railway companies contrary to the foregoing provisions, shall be unlawful, null and void.

R. S. 1964, c. 290, s. 243.