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Signal Fact 73

The first installetion of the Sykes Lock & Block system was at Cambria Junction on the London, Chatham & Dover Railway in May 1876.

The Lock & Block system was used by that railway and also by the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway, the South Eastern Railway and the Great Eastern Railway.

Away from the London area, the system was used by the Hull & Barnsley Railway.

This page should be regarded as “Work in Progress”. The webmaster will welcome additional information for this page.

County pages contain details of Industrial and other Private lines that do not form part of any of the principally listed companies on this web site. RailRefs generally remain un-numbered in the county lists.

In the list below the information is set out in tabular form, spread over four columns. The column entries are -

RailRef	The Line Code used in RailRef system.
Line Detail	The principal locations included within the Line Code. They are arranged in 'down' direction order. Locations shown are primarily stations and junctions to allow easy cross check against published atlases. Signal box names appear in italics where these are 'intermediate' to stations or have been shown to facilitate links from other pages on this web site. The inclusion of a station or junction name does not imply that there was always a signal box of that same name!
SBR	The section reference used in the relevant Signal Box Register published by the Society.
ELR	The corresponding Engineer's Line Reference(s). This will be blank for railways that never came within British Railways terms of reference. It will also be blank where British Railways had no surviving responsibility for infrastructure at the time the ELR system came into use.

RailRef	Line Detail	SBR	ELR
ENTRIES BELOW ALL HAD THEIR OWN LOCOMOTIVES
Beckton Gas Works
	Extensive standard gauge system which included signal boxes and signalling. Article: Railway Bylines 2016 May & June.
Mangapps Farm, Burnham-on-Crouch
	Private museum with standard gauge running track.
Samuel Williams & Sons Ltd, Dagenham Dock
Off	Article Railway Bylines 2014 January.
Ministry of Supply, Enfield Lock
Off GE020	For details see Middlesex County list.
Wouldham Works, West Thurrock
Off MR050	BPCM. Article: Railway Bylines 2013 June.
Port of London Authority
Off	Millwall Docks Article: Railway Bylines 2014 January.
Off MR050	Tilbury Docks
Ford Motor Company.
Off	Dagenham Article: Railway Bylines 2013 October.

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