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Isle of Wight Railway

Signal Fact 15

E A Cowper invented the railway detonator in 1841. Used to protect trains that had come to a stand unexpectedly.

First adopted by the Great Western Railway, the other companies soon followed suit.

Detonators are still used today.

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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	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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