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Signal Fact 15

E A Cowper invented the railway detonator in 1841. Used to protect trains that had come to a stand unexpectedly.

First adopted by the Great Western Railway, the other companies soon followed suit.

Detonators are still used today.

Manchester South & Altrincham Joint Railway (GCR, LNWR)

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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
MA001 GC440 NW760	London Road Junction LNWR - Liverpool Road Junction datum London Euston via Trent Valley & Crewe 188m48c London Road No.2 Junction NW740 188m65c London Road 189m28c Oxford Road 189m57c Knott Mill & Deansgate 189m67c Castlefield Junction MA002 190m17c MSJAR/LNWR boundary NW621 London Euston mileages introduced from 1 May 1988 (signalling notice 22E).	COL
MA002 GC441 NW761	Castlefield - Bowden datum Manchester Oxford Road 0m37c Castlefield Junction MA001 Cornbrook 1m17c Cornbrook East Junction CL050 Old Trafford Junction CL043 1m74c Old Trafford 2m28c Warwick Road 3m34c Stretford Mersey Bridge 4m51c Dane Road 5m11c Sale 5m57c Brooklands 6m55c Timperley Timperley Junction CL005 NW730 7m06c Deansgate Junction CL002 7m25c Navigation Road Altrincham (1st) Altrincham & Bowden North 7m74c Altrincham & Bowden (2nd) CL010 Altrincham & Bowden South Bowden CL050 and MA002 were originally separate, parallel routes between Castlefield and Cornbrook Junctions.	CDM1
MA003 GC442 NW762	Cornbrook Sidings
MA004 GC443 NW763	Bowden Extension

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