Railsigns
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Presumably if this does go ahead (if it's not just a Mail on Sunday invention), it would give an opportunity to rationalise the distance measurement system, which at the moment is a muddle of pre-grouping, let alone pre-Beeching, systems. Mileages jump or change direction at long forgotten junctions, for just one example almost the whole Cambrian line is measured from Whitchurch via a long closed line from there to Welshpool.
Yes - and that's what was done when the Cambrian line was being converted to ERTMS. New kilometre posts were installed along the whole route, all measured from either Sutton Bridge Junction or Dovey Junction, thereby eliminating historical oddities (the old mileposts still exist and are used for operating purposes for the time being). I expect the same will happen on other UK routes as ERTMS spreads.