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===BR Shed Codes===
 
===BR Shed Codes===

Revision as of 14:29, 26 August 2018

Engineer's Line References

Engineer's Line References are three letter codes for identifying individual routes on the UK rail network. Any bridge, or other structure, can be identified and located by its unique ELREngineer's Line Reference, East Lancashire Railway and distance from the main terminus. Many of the codes remained unchanged from pre grouping, right through nationalisation to the present day.

ELRs relevant to the Severn Valley Railway, including the Loop and the Tenbury Branch are:

ELREngineer's Line Reference, East Lancashire Railway Original Severn Valley Railway Present day SVRSevern Valley Railway Mileages on www.railwaycodes.org.uk
OWWOxford Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway (Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton) Worcester/Hartlebury - Hartlebury Junction
Kidderminster Junction - Kidderminster
Kidderminster Junction – Kidderminster Mileages
SVB (Severn Valley Branch) Hartlebury Junction - Sutton Bridge Junction Bewdley South Junction – Bridgnorth
Stourport Branch (not used)
Mileages
BYK (Bewdley & Kidderminster) Kidderminster Junction - Bewdley South Junction Kidderminster Junction - Bewdley South Junction Mileages
TBY (Tenbury & Bewdley) Bewdley North Junction – Tenbury junction with WTW Tenbury Branch siding Mileages
WTW Wooferton and Tenbury Wells Branch Tenbury Junction with TBY – Woofferton Junction N/A Mileages
SHL (Shrewsbury and Hereford Line) Sutton Bridge Junction – Shrewsbury
Wooferton Junction - Woofferton
N/A Mileages
Burlish Branch (Uncoded) Burlish Branch Junction - Burlish N/A Mileages

References to "Severn Valley Branch"[1], "Tenbury & Bewdley Branch"[2] and "Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton"[3] can all be seen on the 1905 Ordnance Survey maps. BYK was referred to as the "Loop Line"[4]

Gallery

Depot Codes (Incomplete article)

GWRGreat Western Railway Shed Codes

The Severn Valley and Tenbury branches were mainly served by the following sheds[5]:

Shed GWRGreat Western Railway Division GWRGreat Western Railway Shed No Code Notes
Shrewsbury Wolverhampton Division 134 SALOP / SLP
Ludlow Sub-shed of Shrewsbury 84 SALOP / SLP Served the Tenbury Branch.[6] Two Tenbury-based daily Kidderminster-Woofferton passenger services were replaced by Diesel railcar services in 1941.[7]
Worcester Worcester Division 215 WOS Diesel railcars in the Kidderminster area were based at Worcester from introduction in 1941, other local sheds having no servicing facilities.[8]
Leominster Sub-shed of Worcester 155 WOS Served the Tenbury Branch[6]
Kidderminster Worcester Division 125 KDR
Stourbridge Wolverhampton Division 154 STB

BRBritish Rail or British Railways Shed Codes

Shortly after nationalisation, the newly formed British Railways devised a system of identifying all locomotive depots by a unique code.

Kidderminster

  • 85D From February 1 1950 to September 9 1960[9]
  • 84G From September 10 1960 to August 31 1963[9]
  • 2PThe British Railways system of classifying steam locomotives by power using a number from 0, least powerful, to 9, most powerful, followed by either F for freight, P for Passenger or MT for Mixed Traffic. From September 1 1963 to July 31 1964[9]

Cleobury Mortimer (Sub-shed of Kidderminster)

  • 85D From February 1 1950 to September 9 1960[10]
  • 84G From September 10 1960 to 1962[10]

BRBritish Rail or British Railways Carriage & Wagon Repair Depot Codes

Kidderminster

  • 2631 From late 1960s[11]

BRBritish Rail or British Railways train maintenance depots

Kidderminster (Severn Valley Railway)

TOPSTotal Operations Processing System, an American computer system adopted by BR from the late 1960s to number and manage rolling stock. Location Codes

  • 65941 Kidderminster Severn Valley Railway[13]
  • 65942 Kidderminster Severn Valley Railway Diesel depot

See also

Mile posts on the SVR

References

  1. SVB on OS map on National Library of Scotland web site
  2. TBY on OS map on National Library of Scotland web site
  3. OWW on OS map on National Library of Scotland web site
  4. Loop Line on OS map on National Library of Scotland web site
  5. Great Western & Western Region Locomotive Depots on www.greatwestern.org.uk
  6. 6.0 6.1 Beddoes & Smith (1995) p. 56.
  7. Turley (2005) p. 39.
  8. Turley (2005) p. 41.
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 BR Shed Codes Codes on www.railwaycodes.org.uk
  10. 10.0 10.1 BR Shed Codes Codes on Wikipedia
  11. BR four digit Pre-TOPS depot codes on www.railwaycodes.org.uk
  12. BR two character TOPS Codes on www.railwaycodes.org.uk
  13. Location Codes on www.railwaycodes.org.uk

Links

Engineer's Line References on www.railwaycodes.org.uk