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Signal Fact 51
When colour light signalling was commissioned at Borough Market Junction in 1926, the overlap on the Down Charing Cross Home signal was just 15 yards - 45 feet against a typical carriage length for 57 feet.
At times of fog, this signal was fog-signalled.
Maryport & Carlisle 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. |
The Maryport & Carlisle Railway set out its directions of travel on the basis that the Down direction was from Carlisle to Maryport and this was perpetuated by the LMSR and BR-LMR.
The section of line from Carlisle No.5 to Carlisle No.8 was altered from 24 September 1951 to be down from Carlisle No.8 to Carlisle No.5. The change was published in weekly notice W1-38.
With the completion of stage 9 of the Carlisle resignalling on 3 June 1973 the Down direction was altered to be Down from Whitehaven Bransty to Carlisle No.8 to match the rest of the surviving Cumbrian railway lines. The change was published in signalling notice 3G of 1973, a copy of which is held in our digital archive.
The listings on this page show the Down direction used by the Maryport & Carlisle Railway - that is Down from Carlisle to Maryport.
| RailRef | Line Detail | SBR | ELR |
|---|---|---|---|
| MC001 | Carlisle No.5 - Wigton datum Maryport Junction 27m56c Carlisle No.5 (South) JunctionArticle: Steam Days 2015 October. |
CBC3 | |
| MC002 | Bog Goods (Crown Street) - Main Line Junction datum |
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| MC003 | Maryport & Carlisle Goods
0m00c Carlisle No.8 (Currock) Junction MC001 |
MCG | |
| MC004 | Forks Junction - Crown Street Goods v original alignment datum |
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| MC005 | Forks Junction - Citadel Station v original alignment datum |
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| MC006 | Crown Street Station - Bog Junction datum |
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| MC007 | South Carlisle Goods datum Currock Junction 0m29c Carlisle No.9 (Forks) Junction MC003 |
SCG | |
| MC010 | Wigton - Maryport Junction
16m20c Wigton MC001(1) Dearham until 1867. |
CBC3 | |
| MC011 | Bolton Branch datum Maryport Junction 14m78c Aikbank Junction MC010 |
BBH | |
| MC012 | Derwent Branch datum Maryport with reversal at Bullgill 4m40c Bullgill Junction MC010 |
DER | |
| MC013 | Maryport - Senhouse Dock (South Quay)
0m00c Maryport |
MDB | |
| MC014 | Ropery - Elizabeth Dock datum Maryport 0m24c Ropery MC013 |
MYT |
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