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Isle of Wight Railway

Signal Fact 36

Daylight colour light signals were first introduced on the Liverpool Overhead Railway in 1921.

They were also the first to be operated automatically using track circuit detection.

They remained in use until the line closed in 1956.

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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
IW001
LB144
SW211
Ryde Pier Head - Ryde St Johns Road
0m00c Ryde Pier Head
0m32c Ryde Esplanade
1m19c Ryde St John's Road North IW010
Mileposts measured from St Johns Road when line opened. Changed by Southern Railway in 1920s.
  IOW
IW010 Ryde St Johns Road - Ventnor
datum Ryde Pier Head
1m19c Ryde St John's Road North IW001
1m19c Ryde St John's Road
2m10c Smallbrook Junction IC001
  Brading Junction IW011
4m55c Brading
  Sandown Junction IC003
6m42c Sandown
7m24c Lake
8m29c Shanklin
  Wroxall
12m44c Ventnor
IOW: Ryde - Shanklin
IWS: Shanklin - Ventnor

Mileposts originally measured from Ryde St Johns Road. Changed by Southern Railway in 1920s.

  IOW
IWS
IW011 Brading - Bembridge
0m00c Brading Junction IW010
  St Helens
2m65c Bembridge
  IWB

 





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