Railway Interswitching Regulations (SOR/88-41)

2 In these Regulations,

Act

Act means the Canada Transportation Act; (Loi)

car block

car block means 60 or more cars that, as a block, are interswitched at an interchange and are destined to, or originate from a single shipper at a siding; (rame de wagons)

siding

siding means

• (a) a private siding that connects with a line of railway of a terminal carrier,

• (b) a team track of a terminal carrier,

• (c) a track where traffic may be loaded or unloaded directly from or into a shipper’s facility abutting a terminal carrier’s tracks,

• (d) a track for loading or unloading in a public stockyard, and

• (e) a point of origin or a point of destination, as those expressions are defined in section 87 of the Act,

but does not include

• (f) a track that is used by a terminal carrier for the transfer of traffic between cars or between a car and a warehouse owned by the terminal carrier, or

• (g) a track that serves a reload or distribution compound, a container terminal or any other facility operated by a terminal carrier or its agent or for the terminal carrier’s own purposes; (voie d’évitement)

terminal carrier

terminal carrier means a railway company that interswitches traffic at an interchange to or from a siding. (transporteur de tête de ligne)