Wannabeck Jn. to Gobbledegook East

1	Junctions and other features 2	Running lines and signalling system 3		Stations, Signal Boxes and Junctions 4	Distance from Signal Box above 5	Loops and Refuse Sidings 6	Notes 7
		Up	Down
Maximum permissible speed 45 m.p.h. on Main lines. Maximum permissible speed 25 m.p.h. on Good lines.
1		↕		Wannabeck Junction	-
				Charlie Chump Halt
2		↕/↕		Garden-by-Backwater	3m 966yds	CL26
3		↕	↓	Chump Junction	1m 85yds		c. 1.1.1942
4		↑	↓	Raspberry Central	0m 550yds
				(Table Top North)			c. 4.5.1917
5	?	↑	↓	Westhampton Tip (Controls up line only)	0m 542yds	DRS57
6		↕↑	↓	Grovel West (Does not control down line)	0m 858yds
7		↑	↓	Manningwick	0m 1216yds
8		↑	↕	Falls-cum-Handly	1m 742yds
	---	↕	-	Gobbledegook East	1m 103yds

a. Closure dates can be misleading, unless it is the final and complete closure of a line. Some lines lost their stopping passenger service, or perhaps never had one, but retained an occasional express passenger service. The date for the withdrawal of these occasional services can rarely be found with ease and often has to be assumed from associated closures.

1.  Only block posts (i.e. signal boxes) are numbered. On the Cromford and High Peak Railway, for instance, there were block posts, performing the same role as a signal box, but there were no buildings as we know a signal box to be. Sometimes level crossing boxes were block posts in all but name, but the difference is important. A crossing cabin, with signals, bells and even sidings, is still NOT a block post.

Some of the regions 'nested' minor branches and connecting curves in the tables. Good examples of this can be seem here. Between locations 1 and 2 on that page there are two branches, one from Cordio Junction to Northallerton Station and one from Longlands Junction to Boroughbridge Road. They have a separate numbering sequence and, where available, separate mileages and speed limits are shown.
 
 2. These features are as at October 1960, so junctions, etc., that closed prior to this date are not shown. A question mark denotes that a junction existed, but I am not sure in which direction it headed. This usually only applies to small goods/mineral lines.
 
 3. This column shows the number of running lines, along with various other pieces of information. Red arrows indicate passenger lines, blue arrows indicate goods lines. Being a passenger line does not necessarily mean that a passenger service was in operation. The designation simply means that passenger trains could use the line without special permission or precautions. Also, some goods lines were permitted to carry passenger trains without special permission. I do not show the signalling system in use, but as a general rule, on double track routes, passenger lines are usually Absolute Bock and good lines Permissive Block. Where a signal box did not control all the running lines, this column still shows the full number of tracks that passed at this point. For instance, in this example, Grovel West only controls the two up lines, but a down line is still shown passing the box towards Manningwick. The up and down columns should be read separately for ease of understanding. In this instance, reading upwards in the up column, the line between Gobbledegook East and Falls-cum-Handley was a single line. From Falls-cum-Handley there is then a separate up line to Grovel West, where there was an up and down goods line. The up line then continues to Chump Junction, where it becomes a single line. For the down direction, read down from Wannabeck Jn., where the route is a single line until Chump Jn., double track until Falls-cum-Handly, and then single line again until the terminus at Gobbledegook East. The symbols at Garden-by-Backwater, separated by a /  indicate that there was still only a single line, but that it's status changed from passenger to goods in the up direction.
 
 4. Unless shown in italics, all locations are block posts. Charlie Chump Halt and Gobbledegook East were not block posts. Where possible, I have tried to include information about stations that closed prior to 1960. In this example, the closure date in the notes column shows that there was a station at Chump Junction. There was also a station at Table Top North that closed in 1917. When a station closed prior to 1960, I do not differentiate between locations that had a signal box and those that did not.
 
 5. Distances are usually only shown between block posts. In the case of dead end lines, where the terminus station was not a block post, the mileage is to the nearest block post or to the end of the branch.
 
 6. DRS = Down Refuge Siding, UGL = Up Goods Loop, DPL = Down Passenger Loop CL = Crossing Loop. From this information it is fairly easy to figure out all the other abbreviations. The number indicates the number of standard wagon lengths that a loop or siding would accommodate, plus an engine and brake van. Refuge sidings far outnumbered loops. This necessitated backing trains off the main line, but it reduced the number of facing points. This information is included because a widening of the track bed, where loops or extra running lines once were, can help locate features.
 
 7. The notes will be anything that takes my fancy, or clarifications of items in the rest of the table. Closing dates will be of stations closing to passengers unless otherwise stated.