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Ashby & Nuneaton Joint Railway (MR & LNWR)

Signal Fact 61

British Railways developed its automatic warning system (AWS) in the 1950s.

General introduction started towards the end of the decade.

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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	ELR
AN001 MR170 NW190	Ashby Junction - Moira West Junction 18m25c Ashby Junction NW180 17m61c Weddington Junction AN002 15m74c Higham-on-the-Hill 14m52c Stoke Golding 12m46c Shenton 10m61c Market Bosworth 8m24c Shackerstone 8m19c Shackerstone Junction AN004 5m20c Snarestone 3m77c Measham Colliery Sidings colliery 3m36c Measham 1m49c Donisthorpe 1m38c Donisthorpe Junction AN005 0m33c Moira South Junction AN006 0m00c Moira West Junction MR160 ASE: Weddington Junction - Shackerstone Junction AMS: Shackerstone Junction - Moira West Junction	ASE AMS
AN002 MR171 NW191	Abbey Junction - Weddington Junction 18m41c Abbey Junction MR235 18m25c Judkins Siding Junction 17m61c Weddington Junction AN001	AJW
AN003 MR172 NW192	Hinckley - Stoke Golding 17m41c Hinckley 14m40c Stoke Golding MR Distance Diagram sheet 66 of 1906 shows the line as 'disused'.	ASH
AN004 MR173 NW193	Shackerstone Junction - Coalville Junction 6m11c Shackerstone Junction AN001 5m29c Helpont Mill Siding 3m44c Wain's Siding 3m42c National Brick Co Siding 3m29c Heather & Ibstock 3m21c Heather Brick Co Siding 1m21c Hugglescote 1m12c South Leicestershire Colliery Junction colliery 0m62c Coalfields GF (BR boundary) 0m39c Charnwood Forest Junction NW194 0m00c Coalville Junction MR160 ASC: Shackerstone Junction - Coalfelds Farm GF CFL: Coalfields Farm GF - Coalville Junction	ASC CFJ
AN005 MR174 NW195	Donisthorpe Junction - Donisthorpe Colliery 0m00c Donisthorpe Junction AN001 0m23c Donisthorpe Colliery MR Distance book, sheet 25 of 1920, shows this as a MR Branch. Industrial Railway Society (Industrial Railways and Locomotives of Leicestershire & South Derbyshire, 2006) indicates that branch was opened 1873 and may have changed hands in 1895. The IRS also state a branch was opened from this line to the Ashby Canal in 1919 - this is not shown on the MR sheet of 1920. Donisthorpe Colliery Co Ltd was a subsidiary of Moira Colliery Co Ltd, and had been owned by Checkland until 1903. IRS record the colliery becoming part of the NCB in 1947. Closed 1990.
AN006 MR175 NW196	Moira South Junction - Moira East Junction 0m37c Moira South Junction AN001 0m00c Moira East Junction MR160 0m00c - 0m37c

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