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S&D lineside signage


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Try as I might, I cannot so much evidence of trackside signage on the S&D. Looking through Ivo Peters' books I can only find signs at stations. I know there were gradient posts, I found the remains of a concrete one close to Tucking Mill viaduct a few years back, but what about others? Speed restriction signs? With this I am aware that it was often part of a driver's route knowledge, but they were brought into more common usage after the Sutton Coldfield accident in 1955.

Whistle boards? What style were they?

And what about mile posts?

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Depending upon your definition of 'trackside signage', do not forget also such items as mileage posts and bridge numbers.

 

There a quite a number of surviving bridge number plates, which appear originally to have been rectangular cast-iron, many of them bearing the initials of the L&SWR and McH&H. I wonder if any were ever replaced by the SR cast concrete type? Mileage signs appear to have been oval cast-iron, but certainly on the Bath extension at least many were replaced in BR days by the BR(W) 2-faced wedge type.

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