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In 1843 Bricklayers Arms Junction received the first crude attempt at interlocking signals to prevent conflicting information being given.
However, the points were not connected to the frame.
North Staffordshire 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 | SBR | ELR |
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NS001 | Colwich LNWR - Stoke North datum Macclesfield Hibel Road 38m58c Colwich Junction NW180(1) Barlaston from 1972 |
CMD2 | |
NS002 | Norton Bridge Branch
3m57c Norton Bridge Junction NW200 |
NBS | |
NS003 | Norton Bridge Flyover datum Stone Junction 4m06c Searchlight Lane Junction NW201 |
NBS | |
NS005 | Swynnerton Junction - Cold Meece
Cold Meece Ordnance Depot |
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NS006 | Trentham Junction - Trentham Park Station
Trentham Park (1)(1)Trentham Gardens from 1946. |
TRP | |
NS007 | Stoke Yard Lines
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CR49 | |
NS010 | Derby Line
30m10c North Stafford Junction MR210(1) now Uttoxeter SB 1880s OS maps show mile posts from Stoke. |
NSS | |
NS011 | North Stafford Junction (Burton) - Marston Junction
3m27c North Stafford Junction MR210BUB: Stretton Junction - Marston Junction 1883 OS maps show mileposts from Marston Junction |
BUB | |
NS012 | Hawkins Lane Junction MR - Stretton Junction datum Marston Junction 3m46c Hawkins Lane JunctionBUB: Burton South Junction - Streeton Junction |
BUB | |
NS013 | Creswell - Cheadle datum 3m73c Cheadle(1) Totmonslow until 1907 |
CHE | |
NS014 | Cheadle Branch deviation alignment datum Cheadle Junction NS013 |
CDV | |
NS015-016. Cobb (page 314) shows line from Normancot Junction to Botteslow Junction opened 1875 complete with branch to Hulme Colliery. Location sequnce: Normancot Junction - Weston Coyney Goods (Park Hall Colliery) - Adderley Green Colliery - Hulme Valley Junction - Botteslow Junction. With it is a branch from Hulme Valley Junction to Hulme Colliery. He shows Weston Coyney - Adderley Green as shutting in 1895 (supported by OS map evidence) and Hulme Valley - Hulme Colliery closing in 1900. Cobb's use of the name Normancot Junction is indicative of his missing the OS map evidence and the entry in the 1937 Appendix which names it Millfield Junction. 1937 and 1960 Appendices show two entries: 1. Down from Weston Coynley Park Hall Colliery to Millfield Junction, 2. Down from Adderley Green (Stirrup & Pye Colliery) to Botteslow Junction. 1900 1:2,500 OS map refers to 1. as 'Longton, Adderley Green & Bucknall Branch'. 1937 1:2,500 OS map refers to 1. as 'Adderley Green & Bucknall Branch. 1900 1:10,560 OS map marks the branch as 'Hulme Valley Branch. |
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NS015 | Adderley Green Branch (Millfield Junction - Botteslow Junction) datum 2m20c Adderley Green Stirrup & Pye Colliery |
ADD2 | |
NS016 | Hulme Colliery Branch datum Hulme Colliery |
ADD1 | |
NS020 | Churnet Valley Line
0m00c Uttoxeter East Junction NS010(1) Denstone from 1923. (2) Alton Towers from 1954. (3) Rudyard Lake until 1905; Rudyard from 1923, then Rudyard Lake again from 1926. 1887 OS maps shows mile posts from Uttoxeter (East) Junction Oakamoor to Leek Brook Junction sold to North Staffordshire Railway Society on 20 March 1995. |
CVL | |
NS021 | Uttoxeter Curve datum Uttoxeter West Junction NS010 |
UXC | |
NS022 | Rocester - Ashbourne LNWR
0m00c Rocester Junction NS020(1) Norbury until 1901 |
ABO | |
NS022c NW774 |
Ashbourne Joint Line See London North Western Railway NW774 for detail. |
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NS023 | Oakamoor Branch datum Oakamoor Junction NS020 |
OJW | |
NS024 | Froghall Branch
0m00c Froghall Junction NS020 |
FRG | |
NS025 | Caldon Low Tramway datum Froghall GoodsSold by LMSR to Hadfields (Hope & Caldon Low Quarries) Ltd in 1934. Subsequent owners Derbyshire Stone Quarries Ltd until 1968 and Tarmac Roadstone Holdings Ltd. Closed 1989 when BR ceased purchase of ballast from this quarry. |
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NS026 | Waterhouses Branch
0m00c Leek Brook South Junction NS020 NS043SCQ3: Leek Brook South Junction - Caldon Low Junction Mileages calculated by reference to box-box distances in 1937 Appendix. |
SCQ3 | |
NS027 | Leek Brook North Junction - Leek Brook East Junction datum Leek Brook North Junction NS020 |
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NS028 | Caldon Junction - Caldon Quarry
0m00c Caldon Junction NS026Caldon often shown on maps as Cauldon. |
CLD | |
NS029 | Leek & Manifold Light Railway datum 0m00c Waterhouses (2nd)(1) Redhurst Crossing from 1923 |
MVR | |
NS040 | Biddulph Valley Line
0m00c Stoke Junction NS001 NS010(1) Gillow Heath until 1864 SCQ1 Stoke Junction - Congleton Lower Junction CLU Congleton Lower Junction - Congleton Upper Junction |
SCQ1 CLU |
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NS041 | Pratts Shops datum Pratt's Siding NS040 |
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NS042 | Whitfield Branch datum Off NS040, BR 1964-1976 |
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NS043 | Leek Line
0m00c Milton Junction NS040 |
SCQ2 | |
NS044 | Congleton Lower Junction - Brunswick Wharf datum 13m33c Brunswick Wharf |
SCQ1 | |
NS050 | Stoke North - Longport Junction datum Macclesfield Hibel Road 19m60c mile post / Stoke SCC NS001 |
CMD2 | |
NS051 | Potteries Loop Line
0m00c Etruria Junction NS050(1) Goldenhill until 1913. (2) Kidsgrove Liverpool Road from 1944. |
LEK | |
NS052 | Hanley - Grange Chord datum Hanley Junction |
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NS053 | Hanley Goods datum Hanley Station Junction NS051 |
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NS054 | Newfields Branch datum 0m60c Newfields Colliery or Wharf |
NFD | |
NS055 | Grange Junction - Grange Wharf datum 0m00c Grange Junction NS050 |
GRB | |
NS056 | Longport Junction - Tunstall datum 0m00c Longport Junction NS050 |
TUN | |
NS060 | Stoke, Silverdale & Market Drayton Branch
0m00c Newcastle Junction NS050(1) aka Gordon's Siding 1937 mileages calculated by reference to box-box mileages in 1937 Appendix. 1890 OS map shows a 1 mile post from Silverdale shortly before Keele. |
HCM2 | |
NS061 | Apedale Branch
0m00c Apedale Junction NS060 |
HCM1 | |
NS062 | Pool Dam Branch datum 1m29c Pool Dam |
PDA | |
NS063 | Silverdale East - Audley datum Silverdale East Junction NS060Formation appears on 1877 OS maps without any track. By 1900 is shown as dismantled railway. Cobb doesn't show it - was it ever opened? 380488 347076. |
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NS064 | Audley Branch datum Newcastle Junction 5m00c Keele Junction NS060(1) Audley & Bignall End from 1923. (2) Talk & Alsager Road uuntil 1889. 1890 OS map shows mileposts from Honeywell Junction (not Honeywell Curve Junction) |
AUD | |
NS065 | Honeywall Junction - Honeywall Curve Junction datum Honeywall Junction NS060Closed 1881 when Keele Junction - Honeywall Curve Junction opened. |
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NS066 | Diglake - Bignall Hill datum Bignall Hill Colliery2 furlongs 5 chains long |
BHC | |
NS067 | Jamage Branch datum Jamage Colliery |
JAM | |
NS068 | Madeley Chord Line
0m25c Madeley Chord Junction NS060 |
HCM3 | |
NS080 | Longport Junction - Macclesfield Hibel Road LNWR datum 16m40c mile post NS050(1) Tunstall until 1873. (2) Kidsgrove Central from 1944, Kidsgrove from 1964. (3) Macclesfield from 1960. CMD2: Longport Junction - deviation point south CMD3: deviation point south - deviation point north CMD1: deviation point north - Macclesfield Hibel Road |
CMD2 CMD3 CMD1 |
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NS081 | Harecastle Deviation datum 16m20c deviation point south NS080CMD2 deviation point south - 15m65c CMD1 16m00c - deviation point north |
CMD2 CMD1 |
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NS082 | Chesterton Devation datum Chatterley (new) Junction NS080BR 1964 |
CHB | |
NS083 | Chesterton Branch datum Chatterley Junction NS080TLK: Chatterley Junction - Chesterton Junction CHB: Chesterton Junction - Chesterton |
TLK CHB |
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NS084 | Talke Branch datum Chatterley Junction Chesterton Junction NS082 NS083 |
TLK | |
NS085 | Summit - Kidsgrove Junction datum SummitIncluded in 1937 Appendix, 1m704 yards from Kidsgrove Junction to Summit SB. Unable to locate on OS maps. |
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NS086 NW749 |
Macclesfield (NS-LNW) Goods Branch datum Macclesfield Goods |
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NS090 | Crewe Branch
0m00c Harecastle Junction (1) NS080(1) Kidsgrove from 1944. |
KCS1 | |
NS091 | Lawton Junction - Sandbach [LNWR] datum 0m00c Lawton Junction NS090(1) Wheelock & Sandback from 1923 |
SAB | |
NS100 GC412 |
Macclesfield - Marple Wharf Junction MR
0m00c Macclesfield Junction NS080(1) Higher Poynton from 1930. (2) Middlewood Higher from 1951. 1881 OS map shows mileposts from Macclesfield. |
MRH | |
NS101 GC412c |
Macclesfield (NS-GC) Goods Branch datum Macclesfield Goods |
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NS102 NW786 |
Middlewood Curve See London North Western Railway NW786 for detail. |
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NS103 NW787 |
Middlewood Curve Up Flyover See London North Western Railway NW787 for detail. |
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