Canada Transportation Act

Marginal note:Compliance with steps for discontinuance

• 142 (1) A railway company shall comply with the steps described in this Division before discontinuing operating a railway line.

• Marginal note:Limitation

  (2) A railway company shall not take steps to discontinue operating a railway line before the company’s intention to discontinue operating the line has been indicated in its plan for at least 12 months.

• Marginal note:Community-based groups

  (3) Subsection (2) does not apply and a railway company shall without delay take the steps described in section 143 if

  • (a) the federal government, a provincial, municipal or district government or a community-based group endorsed in writing by such a government has written to the company to express an interest in acquiring all or a portion of a grain-dependent branch line that is listed in Schedule I for the purpose of continuing to operate that line or portion of a line; and

  • (b) that line or portion of a line is indicated on the company’s plan as being a line or a portion of a line that the company intends to take steps to discontinue operating.