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Signal Fact 31
In 1863 Charles Spagnoletti, Telegraph Superintendent of the Great Western Railway, devised a block instrument in which a disc swung to show the legend Train on Line or Line Clear in a little window.
Instruments of this type were still used by British Railways well through that organisation's life span!
Princes Dock Joint Railway (CR, GSWR, NBR)
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PD001 GP006 GS226 NB366 Opened 1903 Closed (B) |
Princes Dock Goods Branch
0m00c Princes Dock Branch Junction GP005(B) Closed: Princes Dock Junction - Govan Engineering 1972, Govan Engineering - Princes Dock 1970. |
PRD |
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