Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [Talk-GB] Railway bridge numbers

2013-04-10 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 10 April 2013 12:55, Richard Mann richard.mann.westoxf...@gmail.com wrote: The first three characters are the Engineers Line Reference and used by the civils engineers for a few tens of miles of track (the signalling people have a completely separate location coding, and the timetable

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [Talk-GB] Railway bridge numbers

2013-04-09 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 9 April 2013 15:30, Craig Wallace craig...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 2013-04-09 14:39, Andy Mabbett wrote: All railway bridges (over- and under-) in the UK have a unique number. often carried on a metal (more recently plastic) identification plate, or painted on: That ref=B4124 is presumably