Definition of "tramway system"

(25) “tramway system” means a guided mass rapid transit system having one, two or more rails or guide ways or a dedicated right-of-way with carriages or coaches having steel flange-wheels or rubber-tyred wheels or any other wheels or systems to operate on the rails or guide ways or dedicated right-of-way and includes monorail, sky train, sky bus and maglev, but excludes sub-urban and other rail lines which are governed by the Railways Act, 1989, for carriage of passengers and luggage within a municipal area and includes:- (a) all land within the boundary marks indicating the limits of the land appurtenant to any tramway system; (b) any part of a tramway system or any siding, turnout, connection, line or track belonging to a tramway system; (c) all tramway stations, offices, ventilation shafts and ducts, warehouses, workshops, factories, fixed plants and machineries, sheds, depots, communication lines and equipment, electrical equipments, electric lines transmitting power to the tramway system from a generating station, or grid sub-stations of the local utility agency to the tramway system, either directly or through a sub-station and other works or facilities constructed for the purpose of, or in connection with the tramway system including the systems for provision of communication and transportation services; The provisions of section 24 shall apply to the opening of the following works if they form part of, or are directly connected with, the tramway system used for the public carriage of passengers and have been constructed subsequent to the giving of report by the Safety Commissioner under sub-section (1) of section 24, namely:-

(i) opening of additional lines of tramway system,

(ii) opening of stations and junctions;

(iii) re-modeling of yards, re-building of bridges, viaducts and tunnels; and

(iv) any alteration or reconstruction materially affecting the structural character of any work.