LNER Lineside Mileage Signs

[giner]

Yep, the "1 MILE" sign rings a bell with me, too. Here's a picture on e-bay, not the box in question though, darn it. http://www.collectingbids.com/auction_d ... _id=113277

[R. pike]

I have a couple of mileage signs in my collection.. There seems to have been some sort of seismic activity however.. They were both mounted on the front of Ely Dock Junction at different periods.

[hq1hitchin]

The border seems to haver moved south as well - seen in an Oxfordshire garden yesterday

[swhite01]

The Border Crossing sign looks similar to an image showing the sign on the Border Counties Railway at Carham that has appeared on a Facebook group set up for the Borders Railways...

[PinzaC55]

I'm not sure whether Carham had one or two of those signs but I think one ended up in Norham Station Museum?

[52D]

I think the one of the Deadwater ones is in the NRM, Two are still in use im not sure about the others. BTW if its one of a pair its a down side one.

[52A]

Taken yesterday, a modern replacement of the original. The concrete district boundary sign York/Edinburgh is still in place along with it's flimsy modern zone boundary sign.

[PinzaC55]

"The concrete district boundary sign York/Edinburgh is still in place along with it's flimsy modern zone boundary sign."

These are a whole subject in themselves. Particularly interesting in that there used to be one on the Malton & Driffield Railway a few yards south of Burdale Tunnel south portal and yet it had disappeared even when I first visited the tunnel in 1977, the line having closed 19 years earlier in 1958.
But I am sure I saw an LNER drawing for one of these and there was about 5 feet of concrete underground? Why on earth would BR dig it up, in such a wild and obscure place as Burdale?
BTW the Burdale one was Y/H (York/Hull).

[52A]

Why on earth would BR dig it up, in such a wild and obscure place as Burdale?

Sure it wasn't a collector of concrete railway signs! Is there a name for such people?

[PinzaC55]

A Concretophile?

There's also (or was) one of these at the site of Hawthorn Towers Halt a couple of miles south of Seaham. I think it is Y/N.

[R. pike]

"The concrete district boundary sign York/Edinburgh is still in place along with it's flimsy modern zone boundary sign."

These are a whole subject in themselves. Particularly interesting in that there used to be one on the Malton & Driffield Railway a few yards south of Burdale Tunnel south portal and yet it had disappeared even when I first visited the tunnel in 1977, the line having closed 19 years earlier in 1958.
But I am sure I saw an LNER drawing for one of these and there was about 5 feet of concrete underground? Why on earth would BR dig it up, in such a wild and obscure place as Burdale?
BTW the Burdale one was Y/H (York/Hull).

Like this?

[Bryan]

I remember asking the question a couple of years ago as to what these signs were after seeing a Y/ E post near Carlisle station.
Somebody did answer to enlighten me.

[52A]

I remember asking the question a couple of years ago as to what these signs were after seeing a Y/ E post near Carlisle station.
Somebody did answer to enlighten me.

Are you sure about that lettering Bryan?

[Bryan]

Well the E definately as the explanation was E = Edinburgh via the Waverley route.
Now thinking back I have my doubts.
The other letter could have been an N possibly for CE Newcastle or would it have been D Darlington?

[65447]

These boundary signs appear in an Engineer's catalogue (see R Pike's post above) and the options in 1947 were:
L|Y, Y|L, Y|E, E|Y, LMSR|LNER, LNER|LMSR, GWR|LNER, LNER|GWR, LPTB|LNER and LNER|LPTB
where L = London, Y = York, E = Edinburgh, LMSR and GWR are obvious, and LPTB = London Passenger Transport Board.

Another type was used to delimit the lengths under the responsibility of a Ganger (G) and Inspector (I).