The Signalling Record Society
British Railways North Eastern Region
Weekly & Periodical Notices Digital Archive
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Notices were initially issued fortnightly but switched to weekly from March 1949.
The notices fall into distinct series:
- NEOA issued from 1948 to week 9 of 1957 covering the whole of the North Eastern Region
- NE/N issued from week 10 of 1957 covering the northern part of the region
- NE/S issued from week 10 of 1957 covering the southern part of the region
- ES containing information for crews working over Eastern & Scottish Region lines
- LM containing information for crews working over London Midland Region lines
The North Eastern Region and Eastern Regions merged in 1967. Notices issued to the end of 1967 are listed here; notices issued from 1968 are included in the Eastern Region series.
Unless indicated otherwise, year sets are calendar year.
Where free and members only downloads are shown for the same entry, the latter is an enlarged or otherwise improved version of the file. An asterisk (*) denotes items included in the members only version.
North Eastern Operating Area, Weekly Notices
series continued from London & North Eastern Railway, North Eastern Section.
| Year | Notice & Extent of Cover Included |
|---|---|
| 1948 | Fortnightly Engineering Notice: weeks 9, 12, 16-17, 19-22, 25 complete. Week 18 pages 2-3 missing. Week 24 parts of pages 21, 22 missing, pages 23-24 missing completely. Members' Download: Extracts |
| 1949 | Fortnightly Engineering Notice: Weekly Engineering Notice: weeks |
| 1950 | Weeks 26, 40-47 section C only. Weeks 31, 34-36, 38-39, 48-49 sections C and D only. Members' Download: Extracts |
| 1951 | Week 20 complete. Weeks 6, 18, 21-25, 27-31, 34-35, 37-39, 43-50 section C only. Weeks 7, 9-17, 26, 32-33, 36, 40-41 sections C and D only. Members' Download: 20 Extracts |
| 1953 | Weeks 5, 13 section C only. Weeks 1-3, 9, 38 sections C and D only. Members' Download: Extracts |
| 1954 | Weeks 4, 22, 44, 46, 51 sections C and D only. Members' Download: Extracts |
| 1955 | Week 38 complete. Weeks 2, 4, 10, 14, 18-19, 21, 23, 29, 31, 40-41 section C only. Weeks 3, 11, 16, 42 sections C and D only. Members' Download: 38 Extracts |
| 1956 | Weeks 37-38, 41, 44, 46, 48, 52 section C only. Weeks 22, 29, 30, 36, 42-43 sections C and D only. Week 39 sections C and D only (page 63 part missing). Week 40 sections C and D only (page 67 part missing). Members' Download: Extracts |
| 1957 | Week 8 complete, includes boundary change details from 4 March. Weeks 1-4, 9 sections C and D only. Week 5 sections C and D only (pages 59-end missing). Week 9 sections C and D only (pages 63-end missing), includes includes boundary change details amended from week 8. Members' Download: 8 Extracts |
| NE/N 1957 | Weeks 10-18, 20-40, 42-48 section C only. Members' Download: Extracts |
| NE/S 1957 | Weeks 27, 50 complete. |
| NE/N 1958 | Weeks 16, 43, 46 sections C and D only. Weeks 1-19*, 24-26*, 28-29*, 38-48* section C only. Members' Download: Extracts |
| NE/S 1958 | Week 10 sections C and D only. |
| NE/N 1959 | Weeks 2*, 7* section C only, Week 49 sections C and D only. Members' Download: Extracts |
| NE/S 1959 | Week 7 complete. Week 23 front cover and pages 1-2 missing. |
| NE/N 1960 | Weeks 10, 12, 16-17, 31-32* sections C and D only. Members' Download: Notice |
| NE/N 1961 | Weeks 9, 16-17, 19-23, 50(?) sections C and D only. |
| NE/S 1961 | Week 19 sections C and D only. |
| NE/N 1962 | Weeks 2, 28, 33, 35-36, 39, 44, 46 sections C and D only. |
| NE/S 1962 | Weeks 28, 35*, 37*, 42*, 49* sections C only. Members' Download: Notice |
| NE/N 1963 | Weeks 3, 4*, 6, 9*, 14, 30, 34-35, 39* 42-43, 47-48, 51-52 sections C and D only. Members' Download: Notice |
| NE/S 1963 | Weeks 18, 38 sections C and D only. |
| NE/N 1964 | Weeks 3, 6, 8 , 15, 18-19, 22-24, 26-28, 34-36, 42, 45-47 sections C and D only. |
| NE/N 1965 | Weeks 2, 6, 10-13, 15, 18, 26-29, 30*, 31, 38, 40-43, 47-48, 50-01 sections C only. Members' Download: Notice |
| NE/S 1965 | Weeks 2-14, 16-24, 26-38, 40-43 sections C and D only. |
| ES 1965 | Week 14 section C only. Members' Download: Notice |
| NE/N 1966 | Weeks 2-44, 46-47, 49-51 sections C and D only. |
| NE/S 1966 | Weeks 2, 5-30, 38 sections C and D only. |
| NE/S 1966 | Weeks 15-16 complete. |
| ES 1966 | Weeks 25, 27 and 30 section C only. |
| LM 1966 | Week 18 section C only. Members' Download: Notice |
| NE/N 1967 | Weeks 1-52 sections C and D only. |
| Commencing with Week 2, 1967, the notices are labelled Eastern (NE) Region. | |
| NE/S 1967 | Weeks 1-33, 37, 39, 42, 47, 49-50 sections C and D only. |
| NE/S 1967 | Week 16 complete. |
| Commencing with week 2, 1967, the notices are labelled Eastern (NE) Region. | |
| ES 1967 | Weeks 9 and 15 section C only. |
| LM 1967 | Weeks 45, 51-52 section C only. Members' Download: Notice |
| LM 1969 | Week 27 section C only. Members' Download: Notice |
series continued with British Railways Eastern Region