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The first installetion of the Sykes Lock & Block system was at Cambria Junction on the London, Chatham & Dover Railway in May 1876.

The Lock & Block system was used by that railway and also by the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway, the South Eastern Railway and the Great Eastern Railway.

Away from the London area, the system was used by the Hull & Barnsley Railway.

Preston & Wyre Railway

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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
PY001 LY240 NW863	Fylde Junction, Preston - Blackpool North datum Preston Station 0m40c Preston P&W (Fylde) Junction NW860 0m72c Maudland Viaduct PY002 1m68c Ashton 3m05c Lea Road 3m54c Constable Lane 4m43c Salwick No.1 5m04c Salwick No.2 5m17c Salwick (1) 5m73c Spen Lane 6m76c Treales 7m35c Kirkham South Junction 7m67c Kirkham & Wesham (2nd) (2) Kirkham (1st) 8m29c Kirkham North Junction PY004 Lytham Junction 9m14c Bradkirk Junction PY009 10m09c Weeton 11m05c Singleton Bank 12m32c Singleton 13m38c Todderstaffe 14m00c Poulton No.1 Junction PY012 14m21c Poulton No.2 14m31c Poulton (2nd) (3) 14m44c Poulton No.3 Junction PY020 Poulton No.4 Junction PY013 PY021 15m44c Carleton Crossing 16m32c Bispham (4) 17m00c Blackpool North No.1 17m30c Blackpool North No.2 17m40c Blackpool North No.3 17m49c Blackpool North (1) Salwick Road until 1842 (2) Kirkham until c1905 (3) Poulton-le-Fylde from c1960 (4) Layton from 1938 PBN: Preston & Wyre Junction - Blackpool North BCR: Blackpool Carriage Sidings (16m69c - 17m36c)	PBN BCR
PY002 LY241 NW864	Preston & Wyre Goods Branch, Maudlands datum Maudland Curve Junction PR001 Maudland Viaduct PY001 Opened 1850 with flat crossing over WCML. Subsequently split by removal of flat crossing. See L&Y Historical Maps.
PY003 LY242 NW865	Original Preston & Wyre Goods Branch, Maudlands datum Off PY002. 1840-1844, flat crossing over WCML.
PY004 LY243 NW866	Kirkham North Junction - Blackpool Central Station datum Preston Station 8m28c Kirkham North Junction PY001 PY007 8m78c Ribby Wrea Green Junction PY009 9m48c Wrea Green 11m14c Moss Side 12m23c Warton Junction 13m11c Lytham Goods Junction PY006 13m56c Lytham Andsell (1st) 14m75c Andsell & Fairhaven (2nd) (1) 16m51c St Annes (2) Cross Slack Gillett's Crossing Stoney Hill 18m34c Squires Gate 19m18c Blackpool Pleasure Beach Burlington Road 19m70c Blackpool South No.1 Blackpool South No.3 Junction PY007 20m00c Waterloo Road (3) 20m27c Bloomfield Road 20m51c Spen Dyke 21m00c Blackpool Central (4) (1) Andsell until 1906. (2) St Annes-on-the-Sea from 1955. (3) Blackpool South from 1932 (4) Blackpool until 1878	KBS1
PY005 LY244 NW867	Warton Dock Branch datum Warton Junction PY004 Warton (Lytham Dock) 1846-1930s
PY006 LY245 NW868	Lytham Goods Branch datum Lytham Goods Junction PY004 Lytham Goods
PY007 LY246 NW869	Kirkham North Junction - Blackpool South datum Preston Station 8m28c Kirkham North Junction PY001 PY004 9m15c Bradkirk Junction 10m55c Plumpton 12m47c Marton 14m34c Watson's Lane 14m55c Blackpool South No.2 14m77c Blackpool South No.3 Junction PY004	KBS2
PY008 LY247 NW870	Kirkham North Flying Connection datum
PY009 LY248 NW871	Old alignment at Kirkham datum Bradkirk Junction PY001 Bradkirk South Junction Wrea Green Junction PY004
PY010 LY249 NW872	Bradkirk Curve datum Bradkirk South Junction PY009 Bradkirk Junction PY007 Pre 1903
PY011 LY250 NW873	Bradkirk Curve datum Bradkirk South Junction PY009 Bradkirk Junction PY007 1903-1967
PY012 LY251 NW874	old main line alignment at Poulton datum Poulton No.1 Junction PY001 Poulton (1st) Poulton Junction (diversion link up) PY015
PY013 LY252 NW875	old alignment of Blackpool Line at Poulton datum Poulton Junction PY012 Poulton No.4 Junction PY001
PY014 LY253 NW876	old alignment of north curve at Poulton datum No evidence of this in Cobb's Atlas.
PY020 LY260 NW880	Poulton No.3 - Fleetwood Station datum Preston Station 14m44c Poulton No.3 Junction PY001 Poulton No.5 Junction PY021 (diversion end) PY012 15m58c Tarn Gate Crossing Thornton (1st) (1) 16m20c Thornton (2nd) (1) 16m43c Hilly Laid Crossing 17m40c Burn Naze Burn Naze Junction PY022 Wyre Dock Junction 20m33c Wyre Dock (2) Fleetwood Station Junction PY023 20m60c Fleetwood (3rd) (1) originally Ramper Road (1842-1843), then closed. Reopened as Cleveleys 1865 and renamed Thornton in 1905. Moved to new site 1925 and became Thornton-Cleveleys in 1953. (2) Fleetwood (4th) from 1966.	WPS
PY021 LY261 NW881	Poulton Curve datum 0m37c Poulton No.4 Junction PY001 Poulton Curve Halt 0m00c Poulton No.5 Junction PY020	POU
PY022	Fleetwood (1st) Station datum Burn Naze Junction PY020 Fleetwood (1st) 1840-1851. Not joint as closed before joint ownership started in 1888.
PY023	Fleetwood (2nd) Station datum Fleetwood Station Junction PY020 Fleetwood Dock Street (2nd) 1851-1883. Not joint as closed before joint ownership started in 1888.

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