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Derby, London Road Junction to Blackwell Station (Exc.) (via Selly Oak)

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This is a track and signalling schedule from the original British Railways 1960 archive, compiled by Brian Robertson. It records the running lines, junctions, signal boxes, and stations along this section as worked in the nationalisation era.

	Junctions and other features	Running Lines		Stations, Signal Boxes and Junctions	Distance from Signal Box above	Loops and Refuge Sidings	Notes
	Junctions and other features	Up	Down	Stations, Signal Boxes and Junctions	Distance from Signal Box above	Loops and Refuge Sidings	Notes
Maximum Permissible Speed 75 m.p.h. Main and Fast Lines
1		–	↓↓	London Road Junction	–
2		↑↑	↓	L.& N.W. Junction	0m 1690yds
				Pear Tree and Normanton Station (Map)
3		↑	↓↓	Melbourne Junction	0m 733yds
4		↑↑	↓↓	Sunny Hill	0m 940yds
5		↑↑	↓	Stenson Junction	2m 1157yds
6		↑	↓	Repton and Willington Station	1m 780yds	URS 45
7		↑	↓↓	Clay Mills Junction	2m 1195yds
8	?	↑↑	↓↓	Wetmore Sdgs.	0m 1653yds
9		↑↑	↓↓	North Stafford Junction	0m 663yds
10	? ?	↑↑	↓↓	Horninglow Bridge	0m 678yds
11		↑↑	↓↓	Burton-on-Trent Station North	0m 484yds
12		↑↑	↓↓	Burton-on-Trent Station South	0m 613yds
13		↑↑	↓↓	Leicester Junction	0m 434yds
14		↑↑	↓↓*	Branston Jn	0m 1633yds		* Down goods line terminates at down IBS
15		↑	↓	Barton and Walton Station	2m 735yds	DGL 60 URS 70
16		↑	↓↓	Wichnor Junction	1m 841yds
17		↑	↓	Wichnor Sdgs.	0m 646yds
18		↑	↓	Elford	3m 43yds	DGL 140*	* With 2 E. & V.
19		↑	↓	Tamworth High Level	4m 461yds	DRS 66
20		↑	↓	Kettlebrook Sdgs.	0m 1256yds	DRS 51
21		↑	↓	Perrin & Harrison’s Sdgs.	0m 1496yds
				Wilnecote Station
22		↑	↓	Whateley Sdgs	1m 1100yds	DRS 48 URS 51
23		↑	↓	Cliff Sdgs	0m 1144yds
24		↑	↓	Kingsbury Branch Sdgs.	0m 1540yds	DRS 68 URS 51
25		↑	↓	Kingsbury Station Junction	1m 176yds
26		↑	↓↓	Water Orton Station Junction	3m 1606yds
27		↑↑	↓↓	Water Orton Sidings (Signals up goods line only)	0m 616yds
28		↑↑	↓↓	Water Orton Junction	0m 506yds
29		↑↑	↓↓	Castle Bromwich Junction	1m 1012yds
30		↑↑	↓↓	Bromford Bridge	1m 1144yds
31		↑↑	↓↓↓	Washwood Heath Junction	0m 1034yds
32		↑↑	↓↓↓	Washwood Heath Sdgs No.3 (Signals second down goods line only)	0m 418yds
33		↑↑	↓↓↓	Washwood Heath Sdgs. No.2 (Signals down goods lines only)	0m 550yds
34		↑↑	↓↓↓	Washwood Heath Sdgs. No.1	0m 374yds
35		↑↑↑	↓↓↓	Saltley Sidings	0m 462yds
				Saltley Station
36		↑↑↑	↓↓↓↓	Saltley Junction	0m 418yds
37		↑↑↑↑	↓↓	Duddeston Road	0m 442yds
38		↑↑	↓	Landor Street Junction	0m 482yds
39		↑	↓	Grand Jn (Western Lines)	0m 924yds
40		↑	↓	Proof House Junction (Western Lines)	0m 512yds
41		↑	↓↓	Birmingham New Street No.2 (Western Lines)	0m 1064yds
42		↑↑	↓	Birmingham New Street No.4 (Western Lines)	0m 180yds
43		↑	↓	Birmingham New Street No.5 (Western Lines)	0m 214yds
44		↑	↓	Church Road Junction	0m 1738yds
45		↑	↓	Selly Oak Station	2m 556yds
46		↑	↓	Bournville Station	1m 214yds
47		↑	↓↓	Kings Norton Station Jn	1m 214yds
48		↑↑	↓↓	Northfield Station	1m 327yds
49		↑↑	↓↓	Halesowen Junction	1m 226yds
50		↑↑	↓	Barnt Green Main Line Junction	2m 597yds
				Barnt Green Station
51		↑	–	Blackwell Station (Western Region)	1m 917yds

Source: the original britishrailways1960.co.uk archive (Brian Robertson, 2003 to 2013), restored from the site’s own records. Corrections welcome via the contribute page.

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