Section 21: Authority to execute necessary works

The Corporation may, for the purposes of constructing a railway or additions or alterations to a railway or accommodation or other works connected therewith, enter upon any land and-(a) make or construct in, upon, across, under or over any lands or any streets, hills, valleys, roads, railway or tramways, or any rivers, canals, brooks, streams or other waters, or any drains, water-pipes. gas-pipes or electric power wires or telegraph or telephone lines or such temporary or permanent inclined planes, arches, tunnels, culverts, embankments, aquaduct, bridges, roads, line of railway, ways, passages, conduits, drains, electric power or telegraph or telephone lines, piers, abutments, cuttings and fences, as the Corporation thinks proper;
(b) alter the course of any rivers, brooks, streams or water-courses, for the purposes of constructing and maintaining tunnels, bridges, passages or other works over or under them; and divert, widen, narrow or alter, temporarily or permanently, the course of any rivers, brooks, streams or water-courses, or any roads, streets, or ways; or raise or sink the level thereof in order, the more conveniently to carry them over or under or by the side of the railway as the Corporation thinks proper;
(c) convey water by means of drains or conduits into, through or under any lands adjoining the railway;
(d) erect and construct such houses, warehouses, offices and other buildings, and such yards, stations, wharfs, engines, machinery, apparatus, and other works and conveniences, as the Corporation thinks proper;
(e) alter, repair or discontinue such buildings, works and conveniences as aforesaid or any of them, and substitute others in their stead; and
(f) do all other acts necessary for making, maintaining, altering or repairing and using the railway.