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RailRef Line Codes EW
East & West Yorkshire Union Railway
Signal Fact 31
In 1863 Charles Spagnoletti, Telegraph Superintendent of the Great Western Railway, devised a block instrument in which a disc swung to show the legend Train on Line or Line Clear in a little window.
Instruments of this type were still used by British Railways well through that organisation's life span!
This page should be regarded as “Work in Progress”. The webmaster will welcome additional information for this page.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EW001 | Main Line datum GNR / EWU boundary GN322 |
LOS | |
| EW002 | Newmarket Colliery Branch datum Newmarket Branch Junction EW001(1) aka Patrick Green Cobb shows LNER involvement only to Royds Green but 1938 OS 1:10,560 map 435055 425165 marks entire branch as LNER. |
RHN | |
| EW003 | Thorpe Colliery Branch datum Robin Hood Junction EW001 |
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| EW004 | Beeston Colliery Branch datum Beeston Colliery South Junction EW001 |
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| EW005 | Beeston Colliery Loop datum Beeston Colliery West Junction EW004 |
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