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Signal Fact 29
The first structures which became known as signal boxes were opened by the South Eastern Railway on the approaches to London Bridge in the very early 1860s.
Built by Saxby & Farmer on legs and spanning the tracks, they featured semaphore signals on posts elevated above the signal box structure.
Metropolitan 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 |
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| MT001 | Aldgate - Paddington
Joint/Met boundary MD011(1) Aldersgate Street until 1910; Aldersgate & Barbican from 1923, Barbican from 1968. (2) Farringdon & High Holborn from 1922. (3) Portland Road until 1917. (4) Kings Cross St Pancras from 1925. |
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| MT002 | Connection to GER at Liverpool Street
Liverpool Street GE002Joined GER 3 chains from Bishopsgate Junction. There was then 21 chains owned by GER to link up with GE001 which has been missed in the GER list. Was part of this used as the Liverpool Street (BR) staff canteen in 1960s? |
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| MT003 MD011 |
Minories Junction - Aldgate See Metropolitan District Railway MD011 for detail. |
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| MT005 | Paddington - South Kensington
Praed Street Junction MT001(1) Bayswater (Queen's Road) & Westbourne Grove from 1923. Retained through to South Kensington to allow for old / new alignments in the Cromwell Road area. |
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| MT006 | Bishop's Road Joint Section
Met/Joint boundary MT001 |
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| MT007 GW003 |
Hammersmith & City Line See Great Western Railway GW003 for detail. |
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| MT010 MD002 |
Vallance Road Junction - Mansion House Junction See Metropolitan District Railway MD002 for detail. |
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| MT011 MD003 |
Connection to East London Railway (St Mary's Curve) See Metropolitan District Railway MD003 for detail. |
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| MT012 | Aldgate North Curve
Aldgate East Junction MD002 |
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| MT020 | City Widened Lines
Moorgate |
MCL | |
| MT021 | Smithfield Curve datum Moorgate 0m46c Smithfield Junction MT020 |
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| MT022 | Connection to LCDR
West Street Junction SE107 |
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| MT023 | Up Connection from GNR (York Road Curve aka Eastern Branch) Up Junction GN002a |
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| MT024 | Maiden Lane Curve aka Western Branch
See Railway Magazine May 1962. |
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| MT030 | Baker Street - Harrow South Junction
Baker Street Junction MT001(1) Willesden Green from 1938 (2) Kilburn from 1950 (3) Finchley Road until 1885 |
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| MT031 | Link to Midland Railway
Finchley Road Junction MT030 |
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| MT032 | Stanmore Branch
Wembley Park Junction MT030 |
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| MT033 GC002 |
Harrow South Junction - Quainton Road Junction See Great Central Railway GC002 for detail. |
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| MT034 | Uxbridge Branch
Harrow North Junction GC002 |
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| MT035 | Uxbridge original terminus
Uxbridge Junction MT034Closed 1938 when new one opened |
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| MT036 | Watford South Junction - Watford datum Watford South Junction GC002(1) Croxley from 1949 |
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| MT037 | Watford East - North Curve datum Watford East Junction MT036 |
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| MT039 GC010 |
Chesham Branch See Great Central Railway GC010 for detail. |
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| MT050 GC012 |
Quainton Road Junction - Brill See Great Central Railway GC012 for detail. |
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| MT051 GC013 |
Kingswood Lane Branch See Great Central Railway GC013 for detail. |
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| MT052 GC011 |
Quainton Road Junction - Verney Junction See Great Central Railway GC011 for detail. |
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| MT060 | Great Northern & City Line
0m00c Moorgate(1) Canonbury & Essex Road from 1922 (2) Highbury & Islington from 1922 MEB1: Moorgate - Drayton Park MEB2: Drayton Park - Finsbury Park |
MEB1 MEB2 |
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