COMMUNITY group Save Our Rail’s application for an injunction to stop the state government’s plan to cut the rail line on Boxing Day has been approved.
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Save Our Rail president Joan Dawson headed to Sydney on Friday morning to file papers with the Supreme Court and seek a hearing next week.
The injunction is part of a challenge to the state government’s stance that it not required to have act of Parliament to remove the heavy rail infrastructure.
S99A of the Transport Administration Act 1988 (NSW) says the rail infrastructure owner must not, unless authorised by an Act of Parliament, close a railway line.
A railway line is deemed closed if the land concerned is sold or otherwise disposed of or the railway tracks and other works concerned are removed.
Previously the state government said it did not believe it needed an act of Parliament ‘‘at this stage’’, depending on final plans for the soon-to-be vacant rail corridor land.
