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Identifying a railway sign?

Frothblower

Frothblower

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I saw this sign nearly covered with undergrowth at Hampton-in-Arden railway station. Does anyone know what it means?amp1.png
 
The Railways Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 required that the railway companies in England and Wales provide markers at quarter mile intervals along the trackside. Section 94 of the Act read:

"The company shall cause the length of the railway to be measured, and milestones, posts, or other conspicuous objects to be set up and maintained along the whole line thereof, at the distance of one quarter of a mile from each other, with numbers or marks inscribed thereon denoting such distances."
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The sign at Hampton-in-Arden indicates one hundred and two and three quarter miles from Euston. The poles carrying the overhead cables also indicate the mileage from Euston in whole miles, with the second number being the the structure number within that mile. So structures nearby would be labelled something like:
GB
102
35
GB being the code for the Euston - Birmingham section, 102 the one hundred and second mile, and 35 the 35th structure within that mile.
 
I don't think it is that old, not original anyway. It appears to be a British Railways version and is coloured yellow which they introduced in the 1960's.
 
My late brother in law worked for British Rail as a civil engineer and on one job he discovered something lying in the long
grass at the bottom of an embankment near Blisworth.

On examination it turned out to be a milepost marker from the original London Birmingham railway and would have been laid around 1838 or thereabouts.

The NRM, when told of the relic described it as priceless, there being little or nothing surviving from the L&B era.

I do not know where it ended up the NRM claim to have never seen the item.
 
The Stonebridge Railway was part of the Birmingham & Derby Junction Railway from Hampton to Derby where it joined both the Midland Counties and North Midland and all became part of the Midland Railway.

The yellow sign is consistent with a mileage post 102 3/4 miles from London as per route London & Birmingham Railway, although it is more modern.
 
If you travel out from Birmingham on the Cross City Line you will see mileposts measuring the distance from Derby. As far as Kings Norton they are shown as the distance via New Street and from Kings Norton they show the distance from Derby via Camp Hill. This is because this line was originally part of the Midland Railway whose head office was in Derby.

Going the other way it gets complicated as miles are counted from the former Curzon Street Station as far as Aston and the mileage restarts at 0 at Aston North Junction to Lichfield
 
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