The Signalling Record Society
Southern Railway
Other Items Digital Archive
The railways have frequently issued notices of instruction that have operational significance but which don't fall readily into the main categories of the archive. These include notices of electrification, loading of trains, safety, local and more general instructions. Many of these items would today be included in Section 'D' of the weekly notices.
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Local Instructions
| Number | Issue Date | Description |
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| 276B | 1932 | Special Instructions: Tunnel Junction (Salisbury). Members' Download |
| 193B | 23 October 1938 | Revised Special Instructions: Arundel Junction. Members' Download |
| 116B | 4 June 1939 | Revised Special Instructions: Ashford (Kent) "C". Members' Download |
Electrified Lines Instructions
These were printed on buff paper.
| Number | Issue Date | Description |
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| 42a | 29 November 1925 | Electrification of Lines & Sidings: Charing Cross - Cannon Street - North Kent East Junction. Members' Download |
| 9a | 12 May 1935 | Electrification of Seaford Branch; also Polegate to Stone Cross Junction. Members' Download |
Permanent Speed Restrictions
| Number | Issue Date | Description |
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| 14 November 1934 | Permanent Speed Restrictions operative from 1 December. Members' Download |
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| 18 February 1935 | Supplement to Permanent Speed Restrictions operative from 1 December 1934. Members' Download |
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| 3 | 1937 (?) | Supplement No.3 to Permanent Speed Restrictions operative from 1 December 1934. Members' Download |
| 5 | 17 August 1940 | Supplement No.5 to Permanent Speed Restrictions operative from 1 December 1934. Members' Download |
| August 1945 | Permanent Speed Restrictions operative from 1 October. Members' Download |
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| 1 | 9 May 1947 | Supplement No.1 to Permanent Speed Restrictions operative from 1 October 1945. Members' Download |
| 2 | 20 July 1950 | Supplement No.2 to Permanent Speed Restrictions operative from 1 October 1945. Members' Download |
| 3 | 3 April 1952 | Supplement No.3 to Permanent Speed Restrictions operative from 1 October 1945. Members' Download |
Other Items
| Number | Issue Date | Description |
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| SE&C | 8 April 1923 | Revised Engine Head Codes (Discs and Lights) for S E & C Section Trains. Members' Download |
| 25a | 12 July 1925 | Electric trains entering terminal platform roads at Victoria, Holborn, St Paul's & Crystal Palace stations. Members' Download |
| 4a | March 1926 | Engine Restrictions, Loads of Trains, etc. Bere Alston and Callington Line. |
| 46 | 30 June 1926 | Staff Crossing in front of or between vehicles. Members' Download |
| 19a | 1 September 1926 | Cuxton Road, Exeter (St David's) West, Folkestone Harbour, Gunnislake - Callington, Hailsham - Waldron, Horley, Kemsing, Nutfield, Perry Street (Rosherville), Redhill, Sittingbourne 'B', Swanage Gas Works, Wandsworth Common, Wokingham - Bracknell, Wrotham, Advice of Irregularities, Coupling of Engines to Passenger Stock, Rule 52, Rule 190c. Members' Download |
| 9 | 3 April 1927 | Revised Engine Head Signals for LMS and LNE trains working over Southern Railway. Members' Download |
| 13a | 6 June 1927 | Ashford (Kent), Canterbury Road Junction, Crayford, Denmark Hill, Godalming-Milford, Haydons Road, Heathfield, Luckett - Callington, Malden, Mill Hill - Newport, Newhaven, North Kent West Junction, Redhill Locomotive Depot, Rodwell - Wyke Regis, Damage to travelling cranes, Electric Train Working, Refuges and Running Round Facilities Central Section, Ticehurst Road. Members' Download |
| 18a | 1 July 1927 | Amendments to various publications, effectively a set of amendments to the Eastern section 1922 Appendix. Members' Download |
| 32a | 1 January 1929 | Electrification: Victoria (Central and Eastern), St Paul's. Members' Download |
| 4a | 1 January 1930 | Fog Signalling Arrangements, Intermediate Signals use of telephones, Obstruction of one loop line at a single line crossing station, Power worked or mechanically worked trolleys, Sand, Rule 55 (LMSR). |
| April 1931 | Section 1, Call Station Vauxhall. Call out arrangements for Electric Track Linemen, with several later (undated) amendments. Members' Download |
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| S 2445 LWD | 3 November 1935 | Closure of Down Main Local platform at Vauxhall for engineering works. Members' Download |
| 45 LED | 28 January 1937 | Restrictions applicable to Central, Eastern and Western engines working over the Central and Eastern sections. Members' Download |
| 1 February 1937 | Restrictions applicable to Central, Eastern and Western engines working over the Central and Eastern sections. Members' Download |
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| 18a | 11 June 1938 | Accidents and Irregularities. Members' Download |
| 25a | 24 July 1938 | Accidents and Irregularities. Members' Download |
| 27a | 29 August 1938 | Accidents and Irregularities. Members' Download |
| 32a | 18 November 1938 | Accidents and Irregularities. Members' Download |
| 28 June 1941 | London West Divisional circular letter concerning communication between signalmen and handsignalmen. Members' Download |
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| 19 November 1943 | Accidents and Irregularities. Members' Download |
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| 128 | 3 May 1944 | Intermediate Sidings - Shunting of WD trains for other trains to pass. Members' Download |
| X 1684 | 29 July 1946 | Electrification Deptford Wharf Branch. Members' Download |
| 1 July 1949 | Restrictions applicable to Central, Eastern and Western engines working over the Central and Eastern sections. Members' Download |