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Signal Fact 33
Somersault sempahore signals, centre balanced, were developed as a response to the Abbots Ripton collision of 1876 when snow had interfered with the correct operation of slotted post signals.
They were adopted by the Great Northern Railway, Belfast & Northern Counties Railway and Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway among a few others, including Australia.
Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway (GNR, MR)
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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. |
Milepost mileages are taken from a series of civil engineering documents forming part of RAIL798 at the Public Record Office. These were compiled by the LNER and variously date from 1928 to 1940, and remained in use by BR. In these documents zero mileposts are at Bourne Station, Coke Ovens Junction, North Walsham, Saxby Junction, South Lynn Junction, and Wisbech Junction and run as shown against the line codes below.
As might be expected some of the lines originally had mileposts based on more historic zero points and these mileages, as shown on 19th century OS maps published in the mid 1880s, are mentioned within the line code notes. Where it has been possible to calculate these by cross reference to the LNER series the calculated mileages are shown in brackets.
What is not known as yet is the date(s) when the old mileages were changed to those visible in RAIL798. A plan deposited in 1898 in connection with doubling of the line at Langor Bridge clearly shows a milepost from South Lynn thus indicating that South Lynn Junction had replaced King's Lynn (GER) mileages by that date. As the South Lynn to Bawsey Sidings line only opened in 1885 this points to a possible date somewhere between then and 1898.
| RailRef | Line Detail | SBR | ELR |
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| MG001 GN050 MR110 |
Peterborough, Wisbech, Sutton Bridge & Lynn
0m00c Wisbech Junction MR101 0m26c Wisbech Sidings East SB 1m43c Paston No.80 LC 2m44c Dogsthorpe No.79 LC 2m46c Dogsthorpe Siding SB Eye Green West SB 4m33c Eye Green for Crowland station 4m44c Eye Green East SB 5m12c Mill Hill No.78 LC 7m42c Thorney LC Thorney West SB 7m58c Thorney station 7m63c Thorney East SB 9m61c Wryde LC 9m76c Wryde SB 9m78c Wryde station 12m20c Turf Fen No.77 LC 13m22c Murrow Curve Junction JN021 13m25c Murrow No.76 LC 13m27c level crossing of JN 13m53c Murrow station 13m57c Murrow East SB 14m60c Murrow Lane No.75 LC 16m00c Sandbank No.74 LC 16m73c Wisbech St.Mary 16m76c Wisbech St Mary SB 16m76c Wisbech St Mary LC 18m00c Panswell No.73 LC 18m45c Barton Lane SB No.72 LC 19m25c Wisbech station (1) 19m30c Wisbech Station SB (1) 19m30c Wisbech LC 19m43c Leverington Road SB LC 19m52c Wisbech Goods 19m62c Horse Shoe Lane SB No.71 LC 19m70c Goods Loop Junction MG002 20m71c Bludwick Drove No.70 LC 21m13c Gipsy Lane No.69 LC 21m62c Ferry SB 21m65c Ferry station 23m08c Catlings Lane No.68 LC 23m55c The Chase No.67 LC 24m07c Foul Anchor No.66 LC 24m33c Tydd SB 24m79c Tydd station 26m40c Sutton Bridge Junction MG004 26m54c Sutton Bridge station 26m61c Sutton Bridge SB Cross Keys Bridge Turret 26m68c Sutton Bridge East SB No.65 LC Wingland SB 28m76c Pingle Lane No.62 LC 29m35c Walpole station 30m18c Market Lane No.60 LC 30m33c Buntings Well No.59 LC 30m51c Bates No.58 LC 31m32c Terrington West SB 31m34c Terrington No.57 LC Terrington East SB 31m66c Greens Lane No.56 LC 32m05c White Cross Lane No.55 LC 32m58c Clenchwarton station 32m61c Clenchwarton SB 35m14c West Lynn SB No.54 LC 35m36c Single Line Junction SB 35m52c South Lynn West SB 35m58c South Lynn station 35m66c South Lynn Junction SB 35m69c South Lynn Junction MG007 MG010 (1) Wisbech North from 1948 The 1938 mileages (above) would appear to be a re-measurement by the LNER as the milepost positions are recorded anything up to 2 chains from the measured position. 1886-1890 OS maps show mileposts: Wisbech Junction - Sutton Bridge Junction, dual datums Peterborough and Sutton Bridge. These are marked with whole mileages from Peterborough and half mileages from Sutton Bridge. Official M&GN documents from c1900 quote mileages from Wisbech Junction. Was the OS in the habit of dual mileaging or did the MR do this - I have seen similar in other Midland Railway areas and the MR originally operated this section. Sutton Bridge Junction - South Lynn previously datum Spalding. They are referred to as such in the notice published in the London Gazette for 15 November 1881 (page 5977) and MR still showed these in weekly notices issued in 1899. |
R1 | PMY1 |
| MG002 GN051 MR111 |
Wisbech Harbour Branch Junction
Goods Loop Junction |
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| MG003 GN125 MR112 |
Saxby & Bourne Line datum Saxby, Bourne Line Junction 13m07c Little Bytham Junction (end on) MR103 |
R2 | SYS |
| MG004 GN052 MR113 |
Spalding & Bourne Line datum Bourne Station GNR (earlier GNR mileages pre M&GN are in brackets, datum Spalding No.1 Junction)
0m15c Bourne East Junction GN124 0m20c Austerby Crossing GB No.107 LC 0m46c Four Cross Roads SB No.106 LC 1m54c Bourne Eau SB 3m51c Twenty SB 3m53c Twenty station 5m17c Counter Drain No.105A LC 5m18c Counter Drain SB 5m75c Iron Bar Drove No.105 LC 7m05c North Drove station 7m46c South Drove No.104A LC 8m09c Cuckoo Junction No.104 LC MG005 Spalding & Sutton Line Duck Hall SB 9m32c (0m33c) Welland Bank Junction MG006 Water Lane SB 9m39c (0m40c) Welland Bank 9m42c (0m43c) Cowbit Road No.102 LC 9m71c (Om72c) Clay Lake SB No.101 LC 10m13c (1m12c) Cunningham's Drove SB No.100 LC 10m58c (1m57c) Low Road No.99 LC 10m71c (1m70c) Kellet Gate No.98 LC 11m29c (2m28c) Whyles Bank No.97 LC 11m66c (2m67c) Weston station 12m14c (3m13c) Delgate Road No.96 LC 12m68c (3m67c) Long Lane No.95 LC 13m26c (4m27c) Moulton station 13m30c (4m31c) Moulton SB 13m62c (4m61c) Hogs Gate No.94 LC 14m33c (5m34c) Whaplode station 15m17c (6m16c) Crane's Gate No.93 LC 16m01c (7m00c) Cranmore Lane No.92 LC 16m33c (7m34c) Holbeach West SB 16m52c (7m53c) Holbeach station 16m56c (7m57c) Holbeach East SB 17m03c (8m02c) Dam Gate No.91 LC 17m41c (8m40c) Branches Lane No.90 LC 18m32c (9m31c) Fleet Hall Road No.89 LC 18m43c (9m42c) Hockles Gate No.88A LC 18m56c (9m57c) Fleet SB 18m57c (9m58c) Fleet station 19m17c (10m16c) Pinstock Lane No.88 LC 19m53c (10m52c) Stonegate Lane No.87 LC 20m00c (11m01c) Gedney SB 20m02c (11m03c) Gedney station 20m46c (11m45c) Carters Lane No.86 LC 20m63c (11m62c) Garnsgate Road No.85 LC 21m14c (12m15c) Long Sutton station 21m17c (12m18c) Long Sutton SB 21m55c (12m54c) Seagate Road No.84 LC 22m44c (13m43c) Hundred Lane No.83 LC 22m72c (13m71c) Hospital Drove No.82 LC 24m16c (15m17c) Sutton Dock Junction No.81 LC 24m17c (15m18c) Sutton Bridge Dock Junction SB 24m70c (15m71c) Sutton Bridge Junction MG001 Mileages are from RAIL798/270 at the PRO and match 19th century OS map evidence as far as Welland Bank Junction. A GNR Gradient book shows Bourne Junction 0m00c to Spalding Junction 8m36c which seems to match the PRO evidence if zero is Bourne station rather than Bourne Junction. The same gradient book shows Spalding (Holbeach Line) Junction 0m00c to Sutton Bridge Goods 15m58c (shown in brackets - but calculated from the PRO mileages - hence the discrepancy) and this is supported by the 1889 OS maps evidence as being milepost mileages. The date of change is unknown. |
R3 | SYS SSB |
| MG005 GN053 MR114 |
Spalding & Bourne Line, datum Bourne Station GNR.8m09c Cuckoo Junction MG004Mileages are from RAIL798/271 (March 1940) at the PRO and match 19th century OS map evidence. |
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| MG006 GN054 MR115 |
Spalding & Sutton Line.0m00c (0m33c) Welland Bank Junction MG004GNR gradient book shows zero at Holbeach Line Junction end (shown in brackets) and continuing to Sutton Goods and this is supported by the 1889 OS maps evidence as milepost mileages. It is also supported by the notice published in the London Gazette in 1881 (see under MG001). |
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| MG007 GN055 MR116 |
Kings Lynn Branch datum Wisbech Junction. 35m69c South Lynn Junction MG001 MG010Originally mileposted from Spalding. |
SOL | |
| MG008 GN056 MR117 |
Lynn Harbour Branch
Harbour Branch junction MG007 |
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| MG010 GN060 MR120 |
Lynn & Fakenham Line.
Lynn Loop 0m00c South Lynn Junction MG001 MG007 0m65c Hardwick Narrows No.1A LC 1m15c Hardwick Road Goods 3m41c Gayton Road station Boam 3m42c Gayton Road SB 4m42c Bawsey Siding SB 4m45c Bawsey Junction MG011 Lynn & Fakenham Line 5m23c Common Road No.3 LC 6m11c Roydon Road No.4 LC 6m27c Grimston Road station 6m30c Grimston Road SB 6m31c Grimston Road LC 8m29c Hillington for Sandringham station 8m32c Hillington SB 8m32c Hillington LC 8m67c Flitcham Road No.5 LC 10m41c Hill Road No.6 LC 11m47c Peddars Way No.7 LC 13m07c Massingham station 13m11c Massingham SB 13m45c Massingham Road No.8 LC 14m35c Kipton Heath No.9 LC 15m42c West Rudham No.10 LC 16m17c East Rudham LC 16m18c East Rudham SB 16m20c East Rudham station 18m15c Raynham Park SB 18m18c Raynham Park station 19m04c Dunton Road No.1 No.11 LC 19m48c Dunton Road No.2 No.12 LC 21m60c Fakenham West (No.2) SB 21m78c Fakenham Lynn & Fakenham Extension Line 22m03c Fakenham East (No.1) SB 24m77c Langor Bridge SB 25m05c Langor Bridge Goods 25m77c Holbrigg Lane No.14 LC 28m38c Thursford station 28m42c Thursford SB 29m09c Thursford Road No.15 LC 29m78c Gunthorpe No.16 LC 31m33c Melton West SB 31m37c Melton Constable West Junction MG020 31m42c Melton Constable station 31m50c Melton East SB 31m51c Melton Constable East Junction MG030 33m07c Reepham Road No.23 LC Thurning Siding SB 36m35c Corpusty & Saxthorpe station 36m35c Corpusty & Saxthorpe SB 39m17c Bluestone station Bluestone SB 39m26c Oulton Road No.23A LC 39m59c Bluestone Road No.24 LC 41m20c Codling Lane No.25 LC 43m06c Aylsham Town station 43m08c Aylsham SB 44m04c Green Lane No.26 LC 45m35c Banningham No.27 LC 46m30c Felmingham station & SB 47m55c Skeyton Road No.28 LC 48m14c North Walsham No.29 LC 48m48c North Walsham Junction MG021 Yarmouth & North Norfolk (Y&NN) Line 48m54c North Walsham station & SB 51m28c Worstead Road No.30 LC 51m23c Honing West SB 51m49c Honing station 51m53c Honing East SB 53m42c East Ruston No.31 LC 55m03c Stepping Stones Lane No.32 LC 55m37c Stalham station 55m39c Stalham SB 55m65c Stalham No.33 LC 56m03c Catfield Road No.34 LC 56m26c Sutton Staithe No.35 LC 57m43c Catfield station 57m79c New Road No.36 LC 58m68c Potter Heigham Road No.37 LC 59m21c Reynold's Lane No.38 LC 59m79c Ludham Road No.39 LC 60m28c Potter Heigham station 60m31c Potter Heigham SB 60m65c Potter Heigham Bridge station 61m74c Common Road No.40 LC 62m26c Martham & Repps No.41 LC 62m70c Repps Road No.42 LC 63m06c Martham SB 63m08c Martham for Rollesby Hemsby SB 65m73c Hemsby for Winterton 66m79c Little Ormesby station 67m00c Thoroughfare Lane No.43 LC 67m51c Great Ormesby station 67m54c Great Ormesby SB 67m76c Mill Road No.44 LC 68m11c Mill House No.45 LC 68m12c Scratby station 68m43c California station 69m40c Caister Camp station 70m30c Caister-on-Sea station Caister GB 72m26c Newtown station 72m28c Salisbury Road SB 72m60c Yarmouth Yard SB 72m62c Lowestoft Line Divergence MG014 72m73c Yarmouth Beach station 73m01c end of line Bawsey Sidings to North Walsham previously mileposted from King's Lynn (GER) via Gaywood Junction and this sequence was extended through to Yarmouth at some point after the two ends linked up in 1883. The 1885 OS map shows a 59mp from Kings Lynn at Potter Heigham station. Kings Lynn mileages over the Y&NN section may have been short lived - South Lynn to Bawsey Sidings opened in 1885. The 1886 1:10,560 OS map shows a 1 mile post from Beach Station north of Salisbury Road Crossing and the 1880s 1:2,500 maps between Felmington and Honing show some dual mileage figures from both King's Lynn and Yarmouth thus indicating that the Y&NN was initially miled from Yarmouth Beach station. |
R4 | PMY2 |
| MG011 GN061 MR121 |
Gaywood Junction - Bawsey Sidings datum King's Lynn Gaywood Junction GE110Mileposts may not have been changed from the original, likely to be King's Lynn Junction (same ? as Hunstanton line). Bawsey Sidings was after the 3 mile post (c 3m21c). |
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| MG012 GN062 MR122 |
Austin Street Branch
Austin Street |
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| MG013 GN063 MR123 |
Norfolk & Suffolk Joint Railway.
0m00c Coke Ovens Junction GE142 0m21c Laundry Lane No.1 LC 1m51c Lowestoft North SB 1m52c Lowestoft North 2m14c Hubbards Loke No.2 LC 3m06c Corton 3m13c Corton SB 3m23c Corton No.3 LC 4m35c No.4 LC 5m14c Hopton-on-Sea 5m20c Hopton SB 5m73c (Kennel Farm) No.5 LC 6m21c Gorleston Golf Links 6m36c (Cliffe Farm) No.6 LC 7m06c Gorleston-on-Sea SB 7m15c Gorleston-on-Sea 8m38c Gorleston North 8m69c Gorleston North Junction SB 8m71c Gorleston North Junction MG014 GE144 From 8 April 1968 the down direction was reversed so that the line was down from Yarmouth to Lowestoft (weekly notice E for week 14, 1968). |
R5 | YAL |
| MG014 GN064 MR124 |
Gorleston North Junction - Lowestoft Line Junction datum South Lynn Junction.
75m36c Gorleston North Junction MG013 GE144 74m17c Breydon South SB 74m16c Breydon South Junction 73m75c Breydon North SB 73m74c Breydon North Junction 73m26c Caister Road Junction SB 73m24c Caister Road Junction MG015 73m13c Churchill Road LC 73m05c Nelson Road SB LC 72m62c Lowestoft Line Junction MG010 |
R5 | YEG |
| MG015 GN065 MR125 |
Caister Road Junction - North Quay Junction GER datum Yarmouth Beach (1) North Quay Junction GE146(1) shown as such on 1885 OS Town Plan. |
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| MG020 GN070 MR130 |
Lynn & Fakenham Line datum South Lynn Junction
31m37c Melton Constable West Junction MG010 32m13c Bringingham Road No.51 LC 32m35c Bringingham Single Line Junction No.52 LC 36m41c Holt station 36m45c Holt SB 37m54c Holt (NNR) station 39m00c Kellings Heath No.53 LC 39m44c Kelling Heath Park (NNR) 40m05c Weybourne station & SB 42m37c Sweetbriar Lane LC 42m54c Sheringham West SB 42m59c Sheringham station 42m66c Sheringham East SB 43m69c Beeston Regis No.3 LC 44m36c West Runton station 45m15c Runton West Junction MG021 45m16c Runton West Junction SB 45m61c Runton East Junction MG022 45m69c Runton East Junction SB 46m33c Cromer Yard SB 46m40c Cromer Beach station 46m45c end of line NSM: Melton Contable - Holt. CRS: Sheringham - Cromer Beach. WHC3: Runton East Junction - Cromer Beach Originally mileposted from King's Lynn (GER) at least as far as Holt - see MG010 37m50c to 42m66c now North Norfolk Railway. |
R6 | NSM CRS WHC3 |
| MG021 GN071 MR131 |
Mundesley Branch
0m00c North Walsham Junction MG010 0m32c Antingham Road Junction GE153 0m44c Antingham Road Junction SB 3m30c Paston & Knapton station 5m00c Mundesley South SB 5m09c Mundesley-on-Sea station 5m09c Mundesley North SB Cromer & Mundesley Line 7m55c Trimmingham station 7m60c Trimingham SB 9m04c Sidestrand station 10m07c Overstrand station 10m15c Overstrand SB 10m76c Cromer Links station 11m52c Roughton Road Junction SB 11m53c Roughton Road Junction GE155 13m11c Newstead Lane Junction MG022 13m12c Newstead Lane Junction SB 13m62c Runton West Junction MG020 RNW2: North Walsham - Roughton Road Junction RNW1: Newstead Lane Junction - Runton West Junction |
R8 | RNW2 RNW1 |
| MG022 GN072 MR132 |
Cromer & Mundesley Line datum North Walsham Junction 13m11c Newstead Lane Junction MG021 |
WHC2 | |
| MG030 GN080 MR140 |
Lynn & Fakenham Extension Line datum South Lynn Junction
31m51c Melton Constable East Junction MG010 33m49c Hindolvestone station 33m50c Hindolveston SB 33m61c Hindolestone Road No.17 LC 35m19c Freshgap Lane No.18 LC 35m38c Skitfield Road No.19 LC 36m06c Guestwick SB 36m07c Guestwick station 36m26c Foulsham Road No.20 LC 37m34c Themelthorpe No.21 LC 37m40c Themelthorpe South Junction MG031 40m07c Whitwell & Reepham station 40m10c Whitwell & Reepham SB 41m69c Heath Lane No.22 LC 42m29c Lenwade LC 42m29c Lenwade SB 42m31c Lenwade station 44m01c Attlebridge station 48m22c Drayton for Costessey station 48m25c Drayton SB 50m58c Hellesdon station 50m59c Hellesdon SB 52m29c Norwich North Junction MG032 52m47c Norwich South SB 52m58c Norwich City station 52m64c end of line Originally mileposted from King's Lynn (GER) - see MG010 |
R7 | NSM |
| MG031 GN081 MR141 |
Themelthorpe Curve datum Norwich via Wroxham GER Themelthorpe East Junction GE151 |
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| MG032 GN082 MR142 |
Norwich City Goods Yard datum South Lynn Junction 52m29c Norwich North Junction MG030Originally mileposted from King's Lynn (GER) - see MG010 |
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