Mileages from closed stations.

matchmaker · 25 Jun 2019

I took a drive to Oban yesterday - just for a day out. The road runs close to the railway in several places and I noticed several mileposts which looked as if they'd had a recent coat of paint. I couldn't figure out where the mileages were worked out from until I got home and had a look at the John Thomas book "The Callander and Oban Railway". 54 years after the line was closed between Dunblane and Crianlarich the mileages are still worked out from Callander, which closed when the line closed in 1965.

Any other examples of this?

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adrock1976 · 25 Jun 2019

Still in Scotland, the milepost at Gretna Junction just before the ex Glasgow & South Western Railway converges/after it diverges from the ex Caledonian Railway main line is measured from either Glasgow Bridge Street or St Enoch (both closed). Furthermore, the distance was measured via Paisley Gilmour Street and Dalry between Glasgow and Kilmarnock, with the track between Dalry and Kilmarnock having been lifted.

pdeaves · 25 Jun 2019

Loads. The northern bits of the former Midland Railway are measured via a closed route. Cornwall is measured via Plymouth terminus. Some of the Valley lines are measured from Bute East Dock (not to be confused with Bute Road passenger station). Severn Beach to Avonmouth is measured via Pilning.

swt_passenger · 25 Jun 2019

The whole London Underground network is measured from a point that’s “off their map”, namely Ongar.

Rob F · 25 Jun 2019

Milepost on Nottingham station is measured via the closed Melton route.

CyrusWuff · 25 Jun 2019

Marylebone to Harrow South Junction (or thereabouts) and Mantles Wood (or thereabouts) to Claydon are measured from Mancheater via Woodhead.

Hence why Marylebone is located at 205 miles 77 chains.

Llama · 25 Jun 2019

Rochdale Turnback siding mileage at Rochdale East Jn still shows as 14m 27ch, as it was when the turnback siding existed as the Up & Down Branch to Shaw & Oldham.

Jim Jehosofat · 25 Jun 2019

I seem to remember that the Braintree branch was measured from Bishops Stortford.

DelW · 25 Jun 2019

The Aberystwyth and Pwllheli lines - other than the first 16 miles from Shrewsbury, they are measured from Whitchurch via Oswestry.
Fishguard, measured via Rosebush.

30907 · 25 Jun 2019

Bearing in mind the thread is about distances measured from closed stations:
would Zero for the lines through Elephant & C be Holborn? And for the North London Line, Broad Street? Away ATM so can't check a Quail map, sorry.
Similarly, what about routes from Glasgow St Enoch/Buchanan St and Edinburgh Princes St?

swt_passenger · 25 Jun 2019

30907 said:
Bearing in mind the thread is about distances measured from closed stations:
would Zero for the lines through Elephant & C be Holborn? And for the North London Line, Broad Street? Away ATM so can't check a Quail map, sorry.
Similarly, what about routes from Glasgow St Enoch/Buchanan St and Edinburgh Princes St?

Quail Vol 5 confirms your Holborn Viaduct zero point. There’s a change of mileage for the lines from Farringdon at the south portal of the extended Snow Hill tunnel.

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