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Signal Fact 59

The Great Western Railway started developing its automatic train control (ATC) system with a trial in 1906.

The system was installed across the Great Western Railway between 1910 and 1930.

West Riding & Grimsby Joint Railway

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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
WR001 GC210 GN310	Doncaster - Wakefield datum Kings Cross Frenchgate Junction GN270 156m46c Don Bridge 156m63c Dock Hills No.1 LC 157m47c Bentley 157m52c Bentley Crossing Castle Hills South Junction WR002 158m62c Castle Hills 158m69c Castle Hills North Juntion WR003 159m10c Atkinsons No.8 LC 159m79c Carcroft & Adwick-le-Street 160m06c Carcroft 160m13c Carcroft Junction WR004 160m57c Adwick Junction WR006 162m24c Hampole 162m31c Hampole 163m26c Moorhouse Junction WR007 164m01c South Elmshall No.23 LC 164m38c South Elmshall Station 164m48c South Elmsall 164m53c South Elmsall junction SK008 165m79c South Kirkby Junction SK006 166m03c South Kirkby Colliery Junction WR016 166m67c Hemsworth South Junction HB007 167m60c Hemsworth 169m02c Fitzwilliam Colliery Junction 169m15c Fitzwilliam (2nd) 169m25c Fitzwilliam (1st) 170m28c Nostell 170m35c Nostell Station 170m50c Nostell South Junction GC298 171m10c Nostell North Junction GC290 171m66c Hare Park & Crofton 171m72c Hare Park Junction WR008 Hare Park Colliery 172m63c Shay Lane 174m01c Sandal Junction WR009 174m05c Sandal & Agbrigg (1st) 174m12c Sandal (2nd) 175m37c West Riding Junction (Wakefield South Junction) GN320 In the GNR Leeds District re-miling exercise of 1897 "the positions of posts showing London mileage will be altered southward 12 to 20 chains".	C1	DOL1
WR002 GC212 GN311	Castle Hills South - Castle Hills West Junction 0m00c Castle Hills South Junction WR001 0m16c Castle Hills West Junction WR003		CHN
WR003 GC211 GN312	Castle Hills North Junction - Brodsworth Colliery 0mooc Castle Hills North Juntion WR001 Castle Hills West Junction WR002 1m45c Brodsworth Colliery	C2	BRC
WR004 GC213 GN313 opened 1909	Carcroft & Bramwith Branch datum Kings Cross 160m08c Carcroft Junction WR001 160m59c Skellow Junction WR005 WR006		CJS
WR005 GC214 GN314	Stainforth Junction - Skellow Junction datum Kings Cross 166m70c Stainforth Junction GC190 165m42c Stainforth Road LC Bramwith Signal Box 164m72c Bramwith Road LC 164m53c Don Navigation Bridge 164m48c Thorpe Road LC 164m11c Thorpe Marsh Junction LY368 163m59c Applehurst Lane LC 163m45c Thorpe Marsh Junction WR015 163m27c Applehurst Junction NE002 162m46c Booth's No.1 LC 162m32c Booth's No.3 LC 160m59c Skellow Junction WR004 In the GNR Leeds District re-miling exercise of 1897 this section was altered to be zero from Adwick Junction and is shown as such in the GNR Gradient Diagram book. The 1893 OS map also shows mileposts from Adwick Junction! Presumably it changed again later, possibly following the opening of WR004 in 1909. Logically this line is down from Stainforth Junction to Skellow Junction and is shown that way in the 1960 Appendix.		CJS
WR006 GC215 GN315	Skellow Junction - Adwick Junction 0m00c Adwick Junction WR001 0m61c Skellow Junction WR004 In the GNR Leeds District re-miling exercise of 1897 this section was altered to be zero from Adwick Junction.		SKA
WR007 GC216 GN316	Moorhouse Junction - Moorhouse & South Elmsall HBR Moorhouse Junction WR001 Moorhouse & South Elmsall Junction HB011		HMH
WR008 GC217 GN317	Hare Park Junction - Crofton West Junction LYR datum Kings Cross 171m72c Hare Park Junction WR001 172m63c Sharlston West 173m22c Crofton West Junction LY341	C3	HPC
WR009 GC218 GN318	Sandal Junction - West Riding Junction MR Sandal Junction WR001 West Riding Junction MR840		SBM
WR015	Thorpe Marsh Branch datum Kings Cross 163m45c Thorpe Marsh Junction WR005 164m46c Thorpe Marsh Power Station		TMP
WR016	South Kirkby Colliery Branch datum Kings Cross 165m40c South Kirkby Colliery Junction WR001 166m40c South Kirkby Colliery		SKB

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