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Signal Fact 44

There was a limit beyond which mechanical facing points were not permitted to be worked from a signal cabin.

As time went by the permitted distance was extended:
1874: 120 yards
1877: 150 yards
1885: 180 yards
1900: 200 yards
1908: 250 Yards
1925: 350 yards

North Union Joint Railway (LYR, LNWR)

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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.

Only the lines that remained joint after 1889 are included here.

RailRef	Line Detail	ELR
NU001 LY130 NW850	Euxton Junction - Preston Station datum Newton-le-Willows Junction 16m22c Euxton Junction LY110 NW550 16m59c Euxton Coal Siding 17m54c Leyland 18m12c Bashall's Siding 18m76c Farington Junction NU002 19m01c Farington Goods 19m21c Farington 20m08c Farington Curve Junction LY220 LY227 20m41c Skew Bridge Junction 20m44c Skew Bridge 21m07c Ribble Sidings 21m13c Ribble Junction 21m39c Preston South Junction NU003 21m41c Preston No.1 (up) 21m42c Preston No.1A (down) 21m53c Preston No.3 Junction LY222 21m54c Preston No.2A 21m56c Preston No.2 21m57c Preston NU004 First edition OS 1:10,560 maps show mileposts incrementing southward with a datum of Preston. The 1894 edition shows mile posts from Newton-le-Willows - the present day mileages.	CGJ5
NU002 LY131 NW851	Farington Old Curve 0m00c Farington Junction NU001 0m18c Farington East Junction (NU/LYR boundary) LY224	LHL
NU003 LY132 NW853	Strand Road Branch 21m39c Preston South Junction NU001 21m47c Preston No.1A junction change of datum 0m00c Preston No.1A junction 0m08c Preston No.2A 0m40c present NR/RSR boundary 0m42c Strand Road LC 0m44c BR/PCD boundary Strand Road 1m56c Maritime Way LC 1m70c Lockside Road LC Preston Council Depot PSR1 Preston South Junction - Preston 1A Junction PSR2 Preston 1A Junction - Preston Docks 1937 Appendix regards the branch as commencing at Preston No.1A	PSR
NU004 LY133 NW854	Preston Station - Dock Street Junction 0m00c Preston NU001 0m16c Dock Street Junction NW860	CGJ6

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