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By 1851 the South Eastern Railway had introduced block working on its line from London to Dover.

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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
NS001	Colwich LNWR - Stoke North datum Macclesfield Hibel Road 38m58c Colwich Junction NW180 Great Haywood 33m42c Highfields LC Pasture Fields LC Hixon Shirleywich Junction GN251 Weston & Ingestre 31m53c Sandon 28m63c Aston-by-Stone 27m63c Church Lane LC 27m18c Meaford Crossing 27m00c Stone Junction NS002 Whitebridge LC Meaford Power Station Junction 24m44c Barlaston & Tittensor (1) 23m79c Wedgwood 22m63c Trentham South Junction Trentham 22m04c Trentham North Junction NS006 21m04c Sideway Michelin Railway Mount Pleasant Halt Whieldon Road Halt 20m36c Stoke Junction NS010 NS040 Glebe Street Yard South Outlet 19m78c Stoke-on-Trent 19m61c Stoke North Junction 19m60c mile post / Stoke SCC NS050 (1) Barlaston from 1972	CMD2
NS002	Norton Bridge Branch 3m57c Norton Bridge Junction NW200 3m39c Parrot's LC 2m40c Yarnfield Junction NS003 Swynnerton Junction NS005 0m07c Stone 0m00c Stone Junction NS001	NBS
NS003	Norton Bridge Flyover datum Stone Junction 4m06c Searchlight Lane Junction NW201 2m40c Yarnfield Junction NS002	NBS
NS005	Swynnerton Junction - Cold Meece Cold Meece Ordnance Depot Swynnerton Junction NS002
NS006	Trentham Junction - Trentham Park Station Trentham Park (1) Hanford Road Halt Trentham North Junction NS001 (1)Trentham Gardens from 1946.	TRP
NS007	Stoke Yard Lines	CR49
NS010	Derby Line 30m10c North Stafford Junction MR210 29m49c Findern Level Crossing 29m19c Willington Crossing Derby Road Level Crossing Eggington 27m50c Eggington LC 27m08c Hilton Level Crossing Eggington East Junction GN230 26m69c Eggington Junction Egginton West Junction GN236 25m45c Hayside LC Marston Junction NS011 25m28c Marston-on-Dove LC 24m57c Rowes LC 24m33c Rocks LC 24m13c Tutbury & Hatton 24m13c Tutbury Crossing Tutbury Yard 23m43c Weer Lane LC 23m23c Brandons LC 22m75c Scropton Mill Lane LC 22m53c Scropton LC Scropton 22m41c Archers No.1 LC 20m67c Sudbury LC Sudbury 19m62c Dovefields LC 19m01c Marchington Old Station LC 18m78c Marchington 17m75c Langridge No.2 LC 17m20c Tunnicliffs No.1 LC Uttoxeter East Junction NS020 Uttoxeter Junction station 16m33c Uttoxeter Racecourse LC 16m29c Uttoxeter Uttoxeter West Junction NS021 Bridge Street 16m00c Pinfold Crossing (1) 15m61c Hockley Crossing 15m27c Bakers LC 14m50c Stathams LC 14m11c Loxley Lane LC 14m11c Bromshall Junction GN250 13m71c Westons LC 13m52c Sergeants LC Bromshall 13m32c Bramshall LC Leigh 10m24c Leigh LC 9m57c Upper Leigh LC 9m39c Colliers LC 9m04c Bostocks LC 7m61c Newton Farm LC 7m04c Cresswell Junction NS013 Cresswell 6m76c Cresswell LC 6m07c Bennetts LC 5m74c Jacksons LC 5m42c Stallington Crossing 5m23c Blythe Bridge 5m19c Blythe Bridge LC Foxfield Branch Junction Foxfield 4m20c Caverswall LC Meir Normancot Millfield Junction NS016 Bridgewood Siding 1m71c Longton 1m56c Foley Crossing Glebe Colliery Sidings Fenton (1st) Fenton (2nd) Carter's Crossing 0m00c Stoke Junction NS001 NS040 (1) now Uttoxeter SB 1880s OS maps show mile posts from Stoke.	NSS
NS011	North Stafford Junction (Burton) - Marston Junction 3m27c North Stafford Junction MR210 3m00c Horninglow 2m44c Stretton Junction NW410 2m45c Stretton Junction NS012 2m03c Stretton & Clay Mills 1m17c Rolleston-on-Dove 0m69c Dove Junction GN236 0m00c Marston Junction NS010 BUB: 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 Junction 3m41c Burton South Junction GN237 GN239 3m07c Burton North Junction GN237 GN238 2m45c Stretton Junction NS011 BUB: Burton South Junction - Streeton Junction	BUB
NS013	Creswell - Cheadle datum 3m73c Cheadle Cheadle Junction NS014 Tean Junction NS014 Tean (1) 0m00c Cresswell Junction NS010 (1) Totmonslow until 1907	CHE
NS014	Cheadle Branch deviation alignment datum Cheadle Junction NS013 Tean 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.
NS015	Adderley Green Branch (Millfield Junction - Botteslow Junction) datum 2m20c Adderley Green Stirrup & Pye Colliery Hulme Valley Junction Mossfield Level Crossing 0m00c Botteslow Junction NS040	ADD2
NS016	Hulme Colliery Branch datum Hulme Colliery Hulme Valley Junction Adderley Green Stirrup & Pye Colliery 1m34c Weston Coyney Goods (Park Hall Colliery) 0m00c Millfield Junction NS010	ADD1
NS020	Churnet Valley Line 0m00c Uttoxeter East Junction NS010 Uttoxeter North Junction NS021 Dove Bank Spath Crossing Rocester Rocester Junction NS022 Denstone Crossing (1) Alton (2) Oakamoor Oakamore Junction NS023 10m21c Oakamoor Sand Sidings (present end of line) Froghall Junction NS024 12m17c Kingsley &Froghall Bolton's Siding 14m19c Consall 16m43c Cheddleton 16m45c Cheddleston LC Leek Brook South Junction NS026 NS043 Leek Brook North Junction NS027 17m74c Leekbrook LC 18m01c present end of line Leek Rudyard (Horton) (3) Cliffe Park Rushton Bosley 27m28c North Rode Junction NS080 (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 Uttoxeter North Junction NS020	UXC
NS022	Rocester - Ashbourne LNWR 0m00c Rocester Junction NS020 Norbury & Ellaston (1) Clifton Ashbourne (1st) Ashbourne No.1 Ashbourne Ashbourne No.2 6m50c NSR/LNWR boundary NW774 (1) Norbury until 1901	ABO
NS022c NW774	Ashbourne Joint Line See London North Western Railway NW774 for detail.
NS023	Oakamoor Branch datum Oakamoor Junction NS020 Oakamoor Wharf	OJW
NS024	Froghall Branch 0m00c Froghall Junction NS020 0m45c Froghall Goods	FRG
NS025	Caldon Low Tramway datum Froghall Goods Caldon Low Quarry Sold 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.
NS026	Waterhouses Branch 0m00c Leek Brook South Junction NS020 NS043 0m23c Leek Brook East Junction 1m54c LC 2m35c Bradnop 3m20c Apesford LC 3m69c LC 4m42c Ipstones 6m42c Winkhill Halt 7m39c Caldon Junction NS028 7m73c Caldon Low Halt 8m65c Waterhouses (2nd) SCQ3: 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 Leek Brook East Junction NS026
NS028	Caldon Junction - Caldon Quarry 0m00c Caldon Junction NS026 0m51c end of line (Caldon Low) Caldon often shown on maps as Cauldon.	CLD
NS029	Leek & Manifold Light Railway datum 0m00c Waterhouses (2nd) Waterhouses (1st) Sparrowlee Beeston Tor Grindon Thor's Cave & Wetton Redhurst (1) Wetton Mill Butterton Ecton 8m21c Hulme End (1) Redhurst Crossing from 1923	MVR
NS040	Biddulph Valley Line 0m00c Stoke Junction NS001 NS010 0m18c Pratt's Sidings NS041 Fenton Manor Berry Hill Botteslow Junction NS015 Bucknall & Northwood 3m20c Abbey LC 3m21c Milton Junction NS043 Ford Green & Small Thorne Whitfield Sidings Black Bull Heath's Junction Knypersley Halt Biddulph (1) Mossley Halt 12m20c Congleton Lower Junction NS044 12m47c Congleton Upper Junction NS080 (1) Gillow Heath until 1864 SCQ1 Stoke Junction - Congleton Lower Junction CLU Congleton Lower Junction - Congleton Upper Junction	SCQ1 CLU
NS041	Pratts Shops datum Pratt's Siding NS040 Pratt's Siding Shops
NS042	Whitfield Branch datum Off NS040, BR 1964-1976
NS043	Leek Line 0m00c Milton Junction NS040 0m40c Milton Stockton Brook Endon 3m11c Endon LC Wall Grange & Longsdon 6m58c Leekbrook Junction 6m65c Leek Brook South Junction NS020 NS026	SCQ2
NS044	Congleton Lower Junction - Brunswick Wharf datum 13m33c Brunswick Wharf 12m20c Congleton Lower Junction NS040	SCQ1
NS050	Stoke North - Longport Junction datum Macclesfield Hibel Road 19m60c mile post / Stoke SCC NS001 19m35c Newcastle Junction NS060 Cliff Vale 18m64c Etruria Etruria Junction NS051 18m20c Grange Junction NS052 NS055 17m03c Longport 16m63c Longport Junction NS056 16m40c mile post NS080	CMD2
NS051	Potteries Loop Line 0m00c Etruria Junction NS050 Hanley Junction NS052 Hanley Station Junction NS053 Hanley (2nd) Waterloo Road Cobridge Burslem Ford Green & Smallhome Tunstall Junction NS056 Tunstall Newfields Junction NS054 Pitts Hill Newchapel & Goldenhill (1) Kidsgrove Halt Kidsgrove (2) 7m23c Kidsgrove Liverpool Road Junction NS080 NS085 (1) Goldenhill until 1913. (2) Kidsgrove Liverpool Road from 1944.	LEK
NS052	Hanley - Grange Chord datum Hanley Junction Grange Junction NS050
NS053	Hanley Goods datum Hanley Station Junction NS051 Hanley (1st) Goods
NS054	Newfields Branch datum 0m60c Newfields Colliery or Wharf 0m00c Newfields Junction NS051	NFD
NS055	Grange Junction - Grange Wharf datum 0m00c Grange Junction NS050 1m20c Grange Wharf	GRB
NS056	Longport Junction - Tunstall datum 0m00c Longport Junction NS050 Pinnox Junction 1m08c Tunstall Junction NS051	TUN
NS060	Stoke, Silverdale & Market Drayton Branch 0m00c Newcastle Junction NS050 0m46c Hartshill &Basford Halt 1m25c Newcastle Newcastle (Brampton) Halt 1m43c Brampton Siding 1m59c Liverpool Road Halt 1m62c end of line after 1967 2m08c Apedale Junction NS061 Knutton Halt 2m44c Knutton Forge Junction NS062 2m64c Ketley's Sidings (1) 3m19c Crown Street Halt 3m27c end of line after 1991 Silverdale (1st) NS063 3m53c Silverdale (2nd) 4m56c Keele 5m00c Keele Junction NS064 5m20c Honeywall Junction NS065 6m25c Keele Park 7m36c Madeley Chord Junction NS068 7m56c Madeley Road 8m14c end of line after 1966 10m38c Pipe Gate 13m05c Norton-in-Hales 16m19c Silverdale Junction GW811 (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 Knutton Gate Junction Apedale Colliery	HCM1
NS062	Pool Dam Branch datum 1m29c Pool Dam 0m00c Knutton Forge Junction NS060	PDA
NS063	Silverdale East - Audley datum Silverdale East Junction NS060 Leycett Junction NS064 Formation 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.
NS064	Audley Branch datum Newcastle Junction 5m00c Keele Junction NS060 Honeywall Curve Junction NS065 Leycett Leycett Junction NS063 Hayes Wood Halmerend Audley (1) 9m05c Diglake Junction NS066 Jamage Junction NS067 Bunker Hill Alsager Road (2) Alsager Yard 12m16c Alsager East Junction NS090 (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 NS060 Honeywall Curve Junction NS064 Closed 1881 when Keele Junction - Honeywall Curve Junction opened.
NS066	Diglake - Bignall Hill datum Bignall Hill Colliery Diglake Junction NS064 2 furlongs 5 chains long	BHC
NS067	Jamage Branch datum Jamage Colliery Jamage Junction NS064	JAM
NS068	Madeley Chord Line 0m25c Madeley Chord Junction NS060 0m00c Madeley Junction NW200	HCM3
NS080	Longport Junction - Macclesfield Hibel Road LNWR datum 16m40c mile post NS050 16m20c deviation point south NS081 16m20c Chatterley (new) Junction NS082 16m16c Bradwell Sidings Chatterley Junction Chatterley (1) 13m70c deviation point north NS081 13m68c Harecastle Junction NS090 13m60c Harecastle (2) Kidsgrove Junction NS085 Kidsgrove Liverpool Road Junction NS051 Mow Cop Sidings 11m30c Mow Cop & Scholar Green 11m30c Mow Cop LC Ackers LC Astbury Sidings 8m12c Congleton Congleton Upper Junction NS040 4m69c North Rode Junction NS020 North Rode Macclesfield Moss 0m25c Macclesfield Central (3) Macclesfield Junction NS100 0m00c Hibel Road NW748 (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
NS081	Harecastle Deviation datum 16m20c deviation point south NS080 gap in mileage 15m65c-16m00c 13m70c deviation point north NS080 CMD2 deviation point south - 15m65c CMD1 16m00c - deviation point north	CMD2 CMD1
NS082	Chesterton Devation datum Chatterley (new) Junction NS080 Chesterton Junction NS083 NS084 BR 1964	CHB
NS083	Chesterton Branch datum Chatterley Junction NS080 Chesterton Junction NS082 NS084 Chesterton (Hem Heath) TLK: Chatterley Junction - Chesterton Junction CHB: Chesterton Junction - Chesterton	TLK CHB
NS084	Talke Branch datum Chatterley Junction Chesterton Junction NS082 NS083 0m58c High Carr Tilieries Red Street Junction 2m32c Talk o' th' Hill	TLK
NS085	Summit - Kidsgrove Junction datum Summit Kidsgrove Junction NS051 NS080 Included in 1937 Appendix, 1m704 yards from Kidsgrove Junction to Summit SB. Unable to locate on OS maps.
NS086 NW749	Macclesfield (NS-LNW) Goods Branch datum Macclesfield Goods Tunnel End Junction NW748
NS090	Crewe Branch 0m00c Harecastle Junction (1) NS080 0m05c Harecastle (1) Lawton Junction NS091 1m35c Coopers LC Alsager East Junction NS064 2m33c Alsager 2m33c Alsager LC 3m01c Home Farm LC 4m03c Radway Green 4m07c Radway Green LC 4m26c Lower Level Crossing Lower Radway Green LC 4m67c Barthomley Junction 4m77c Barthomley LC 7m52c North Stafford Junction NW205 North Stafford Sidings 8m25c Crewe South Junction NW200 (1) Kidsgrove from 1944.	KCS1
NS091	Lawton Junction - Sandbach [LNWR] datum 0m00c Lawton Junction NS090 0m23c Lawton Yard 0m46c Lawton 3m15c Hassall Green 4m04c Malkin's Bank 'B' 4m29c Malkin's Bank 'A' 4m76c Sandbach (Wheelock) (1) 5m58c Ettiley Heath Goods 6m12c Elton Crossing 6m40c Sandbach Junction NW740 (1) Wheelock & Sandback from 1923	SAB
NS100 GC412	Macclesfield - Marple Wharf Junction MR 0m00c Macclesfield Junction NS080 Macclesfield Goods Junction NS101 Bollington Poynton (1) High Level Junction NW Middlewood (2) High Lane 9m78c post 1970 end of line 10m04c Rose Hill & Marple 11m02c Marple Wharf Junction GC410 (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 Macclesfield Goods Junction NS100
NS102 NW786	Middlewood Curve See London North Western Railway NW786 for detail.
NS103 NW787	Middlewood Curve Up Flyover See London North Western Railway NW787 for detail.

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