What is a "M Car" Stopping Board mean?

[waterboo]

Apologies as this is not the clearest picture.

Passing Derby I have noticed a stopping board marked "M Car Stop",

What does the M mean? Is there any other locations that have this.

Regards,

 

[transportphoto]

This is the stop board for the unit on the Matlock branch shuttle. (E.g. terminate from Matlock prior to working back to Matlock.)

 

[Deepgreen]

There are quirks like this around - at stations on the Weymouth line there are '444 car stop' boards, but the platforms don't look long enough!

 

[Horizon22]

There are quirks like this around - at stations on the Weymouth line there are '444 car stop' boards, but the platforms don't look long enough!

Probably be a short platform but with ASDO (automatic selective door opening).

 

[The exile]

Probably be a short platform but with ASDO (automatic selective door opening).

Passengers for Wool should ensure they are not in the rear 441 coaches?!

 

[Purple Train]

Passengers for Wool should ensure they are not in the rear 441 coaches?!

There's always one passenger in the back coach... where would they have to walk from, Dorchester?

 

[Flange Squeal]

Another letter variation exists at Woking, which has an 'X Car Stop' at the London end of platform 1 located only slightly beyond the 12 car mark but attached to the anti-trespass barriers. This is where trains due to have a portion attach to the rear should stop, as 8 car trains trains stopped on the 12 car mark could cause the attaching 4 car unit (which happens frequently on Sundays when stoppers from Basingstoke have the up Alton attached to their rear) to be very tight to stopping over the AWS ramp when performing the attachment. When this happens, it therefore makes the AWS alarm impossible to cancel. The 'X' mark was therefore introduced at the very far end of the platform, to give attaching trains a bit more wiggle room around the magnet. Not sure how commonplace these precision type markers are across the wider network?

 

[_toommm_]

Another letter variation exists at Woking, which has an 'X Car Stop' at the London end of platform 1 located only slightly beyond the 12 car mark but attached to the anti-trespass barriers. This is where trains due to have a portion attach to the rear should stop, as 8 car trains trains stopped on the 12 car mark could cause the attaching 4 car unit (which happens frequently on Sundays when stoppers from Basingstoke have the up Alton attached to their rear) to be very tight to stopping over the AWS ramp when performing the attachment. When this happens, it therefore makes the AWS alarm impossible to cancel. The 'X' mark was therefore introduced at the very far end of the platform, to give attaching trains a bit more wiggle room around the magnet. Not sure how commonplace these precision type markers are across the wider network?

Some of the Class 390 boards are marked as ‘precision’ stopping points, such as at Warrington.

 

[dk1]

Very large X car stop board in platform 1 at Ipswich for 755s too as the OHL only partially served this bay for electric loco shunt moves in the yard.

 

[Railsigns]

Very large X car stop board in platform 1 at Ipswich for 755s too as the OHL only partially served this bay for electric loco shunt moves in the yard.

The Ipswich example is different in that it's a large red diagonal cross indicating a train class prohibition, as opposed to a letter "X" on a car stop marker.

 

[dk1]

The Ipswich example is different in that it's a large red diagonal cross indicating a train class prohibition, as opposed to a letter "X" on a car stop marker.

It’s certainly unmissable & I have not failed to miss it yet lol.

I have often been tempted to go down to the stops when pan/pans are isolated but have always bottled it at the last moment.

 

[LAX54]

It’s certainly unmissable & I have not failed to miss it yet lol.

I have often been tempted to go down to the stops when pan/pans are isolated but have always bottled it at the last moment.

I know a Signaller who put a full hauled set into P1 once, bizarrely the driver took the signal ! although stopped at the marker, most of the train still on the UM of course, Signaller said the headcode 5P70 had been used all week for 170 training, and the same headocde was being used for a hauled set 'test trip' !

 

[LowLevel]

The axle counters at Derby don't like trains going partially over them and then going back the other way. The M car stop boards are for the Matlock services that terminate at Derby to prevent what is known as a "partial traverse" - they stop the train clear.

In the opposite direction trains from Nottingham, Crewe and Birmingham use the 170 stop boards