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Signalling Notices relevant to the Swindon Panel area.

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Iss = Date of Issue. Eff = Effective Date.

Pre-Swindon MAS

Number - Company Title	Date	Description	Source
LXO.77 - BR(W) MAS Reading: Wantage Road to Uffington	Iss: May 1965. Eff: 30/5/65.	Final stage of Reading M.A.S. Wantage Road and Challow SBs closed. Track Circuit Block (TCB) introduced between Reading Panel (Wantage Road) and Uffington SB with 4-character train describer. Facing crossover provided to supplement existing trailing one (note both of these replaced when reversible installed in July 1980 and January 1981). All remaining mechanical signals at Uffington removed. New GF at Wantage Road (released from Reading PSB) and Challow (released from Uffington SB).

MAS Preparatory Work

Number - Company Title	Date	Description	Source
S.2498 - BR(W) Swindon: Stage 1 Uffington to Highworth Junction	Iss: November, 1966. Eff: Saturday 12th November - Monday 14th November 1966.	Colour lights and TCB introduced between Uffington and Highworth Jn. Knighton, Ashbury and Marston Crossing West SBs all closed. Knighton & Ashbury LCs temp closed. New GF into use at Ashbury for siding. Both Ashbury GFs released from Uffington SB.
S.2501 - BR(W) Swindon: Stage 2 Wootton Bassett West to Thingley Junction	Iss: Eff: December, 1966.	Colour lights and TCB introduced between Wootton Bassett West [Main Line] and Thingley Jn. Langley Crossing and Chippenham East Boxes closed. Langley Level Crossing converted to AHB. New GFs at Christian Malford and Chippenham East.
S.2502 - BR(W) Unknown title	Iss: Eff: 1630, 24th February 1967.	Melksham Signal Box taken out of use in preparation for Swindon MAS Stage 3 (S.2503). WANTED!!
S.2503 - BR(W) Swindon: Stage 3 Thingley Junction to Bathampton and Bradford Junction	Iss: Eff: February, 1967.	Corsham SB closed. Line Singled between Thingley Jn and Bradford Jn. New GFs at Box and Corsham (released from Bathampton Jn SB). New GFs at Holt and Melksham (released by E.T. token). TCB introduced between Thingley Jn and Bathampton Jn. Electric Train Token introduced between Thingley Jn and Bradford Jn. Box Tunnel "Tell Tale" equipment works to Thingley Jn SB.
S.2512 - BR(W) Hullavington	Iss: Eff:	WANTED!!
S.2513 - BR(W) Trowbridge and Swindon West	Iss: Eff:	WANTED!!
S.2517 - BR(W) Swindon: Stage 4 Wootton Bassett West to Badminton	Iss: June 1967 Eff: 24-25/6/67	Little Somerford SB already closed (0800, 18/6/67). Colour lights and TCB introduced between Wootton Bassett West and Hullavington and Hullavington and Badminton. "Up" and "Down South Wales" renamed "Up" and "Down Badminton" respectively. Emergency trailing crossover worked by GF BIU at Little Somerford. GF at Hullavington Ground Frame BIU controlling siding and crossover. Both released from Hullavington SB.
S.2518 - BR(W) Multiple Aspect Signalling Swindon	Iss:June 1967 Eff:	18/6: Little Somerford Box will be taken out of use at 08:00 Hullavington Loops out of use 08:00 to 17:00 for point motors to be changed. Main Line Trailing Crossover and connection from Civil Enginere's Up Siding disconnected. 22/6: Track Circuit 36T given up to Chief Signalling Engineer. 23/6: Hullavington Loops taken out of use until the main occupation.
S.2520 - BR(W) Swindon West	Iss: Eff:	WANTED!!
S.2527 - BR(W) Signal Alterations at Swindon East	Iss: September, 1967. Eff: 19/9/67.	Alterations relating to Engine Lines and No.s 1 and 2 Up Sidings being redesignated to Through Sidings, and alterations to the connections to these lines. Details of minor signalling alterations related to this.
S.2544 - BR(W) Swindon East	Iss: Eff:	WANTED!!
S.2545 - BR(W) Swindon: Preliminary Stage 5	Iss: February, 1968. Eff: 18/2-2/3/68	18/2/68: DM.61 and DM.62 signals transferred supervision from Uffington to Reading Panel. 0800 18/2/68: the facing and trailing crossovers at Uffington temporarily clipped up (for connection to new GF when Swindon PSB opens). 0800 25/2/68: Down Main to Down Siding connection at Rushey Platt temp clipped up (for connection to new GF*). 0800 1/3/68: Up Goods Loop at Highworth Jn temp clipped up*. 1600 1/3/68: Rodbourne Lane SB closed. Points temp clipped up*. 0600 2/3/68: Workshop Siding points clipped up at Loco Yard (pending provision of new ground frame*). 0800 2/3/68: SPTs and telephones from Uffington and Highworth Jn SBs and Ashbury and Knighton AHBs transferred to Swindon PSB. 1000 2/3/68: Connections from Down Carriage Sidings to Branch line clipped up.* 1400 2/3/68: UM>UG facing connection at Highworth Jn temp clipped up.* 1400 2/3/68: Main line trailing crossover and slip connections, and trailing connection between Down Main and Down Goods clipped up*.

Swindon Panel Commissioning

Number - Company Title	Date	Description	Source
S.2546 - BR(W) Swindon: Stage 5 Uffington to Hay Lane and Swindon Loco Yard	Iss: Eff: Saturday and Sunday, 2nd and 3rd March 1968.
S.2551 - BR(W) Highworth Junction	Iss: February 1968. Eff: Sunday, 18th February - Saturday, 2nd March, 1968.
S.2554 - BR(W) Swindon: Preliminary Stage 6	Iss: March, 1968. Eff:	WANTED!!
S.2555 - BR(W) Swindon: Stage 6 Hay Lane to Thingley Junction and Hullavington	Iss: Eff: Sunday 23rd March - Sunday 24th March 1968.
S.2557 - BR(W) Swindon	Iss: 21/2/68 Eff: 1-2/3/68.	Disconnection of some track circuits at Rushey Platt and Hay Lane (0800 25/2/68); Highworth Jn (0200 1/3/68); Highworth Jn (again), Swindon Goods Yard, Swindon East (1400 2/3/68); Swindon Loco Yard (0600 2/3/68) in preparation for MAS Stage 6 (in addition to those arrangements in S.2545.
S.2560 - BR(W) Swindon: Stage 5 (Amends Notice No. S.2546)	Iss: 29/3/68 Eff: 3/3/68	Alteration to S.2456, delete AWS ramp on LY.3.
S.2562 - BR(W) Swindon	Iss: 18/3/68 Eff: 23/3/68.	Disconnection of some track circuits at Wootton Bassett East and West in preparation for MAS Stage 6.
S.2576 - BR(W) Swindon: Preliminary Stage 7	Iss: June, 1968. Eff: 16-29 June 1968.	Minety & Ashton Keynes SB closed at 0800 16/6/68. All connections out of use. Bremell Sidings SB closed at 0800 23/6/68. All connections out of use. All connections at Kemble SB out of use at 0800 23/6/68 except siding connection (former Cirencester Branch) connected to new GF. At 0800 29/6/68, disconnection of some track circuits at Kemble. All in preparation for MAS Stage 7.
S.2577 - BR(W) Swindon: Stage 7 Swindon Loco Yard to Kemble	Iss: Eff: Saturday 29th June - Sunday 30th June 1968.
S.2579 - BR(W) Swindon: Stage 7 (Amends Notices Nos. S.2576 and S.2577)	Iss: Eff:	WANTED!!
S.2585 - BR(W) Cancellation of Signalling Alterations	Iss: 4 July 1968. Eff: 6 July 1968.	Swindon - Kemble, Stage 7 of the Swindon MAS Scheme Cancelled. (Notice S.2577 to be retained for future use)	(P)

Fringe Schemes

Number - Company Title	Date	Description	Source
S.2629 - BR(W) Multiple Aspect Signalling Bristol (Bathampton to Bradford Junction)	Iss: August 1969. Eff: 23-24/8/69.	Limpley Stoke SB closed, TCB introduced between Bathampton Jn and Bradford Jn (with descriptions by single stroke bell). [No direction effect on Swindon PSB, included for information.]
S.2643 - BR(W) Signal alterations at Swindon, etc	Iss: January, 1970. Eff: Saturday 31st January - Monday 2nd February 1970.	New engineers' sidings, Swindon West, down side.
S.2668 - BR(W) Multiple Aspect Signalling Gloucester (Stage 9 - Kemble - Standish Junction)	Iss: October 1970. Eff: 3-5/10/70.	Sapperton Sidings, Brimbscombe, Stroud and Stonehouse Burdett Road SBs all closed. St Mary's level crossing controlled by Annett's Key. Frampton Crossing reduced to occupation status. Sapperton GF, Brimbscombe, Stroud GFs all brought into use (released from Gloucester PSB). TCB introduced between Swindon (Kemble) and Gloucester (Standish).
S.2680 - BR(W) Multiple Aspect Signalling Bristol Stage 8A - Westerleigh West to Yate South Jn and Badminton)	Iss: May 1971. Eff: 8-10/5/71.

Capacity Enhancements

Number - Company Title	Date	Description	Source
43/W/2715 - BR(W) Swindon Swindon (Wootton Bassett) to Bristol (Westerleigh Jcn.) Resignalling	Iss: Eff: Monday 6th October 1975.
43/W/2722 - BR(W) Ashton Jn - Wapping Wharf Swindon (Station)	Iss: 21 April 1976. Eff: 1 - 8 May 1976.	Down Relief at Swindon (parcels platform) becomes Down Goods. Down Yard Ground Frame provided (333R) (76m 64c). Down Siding Ground Frame provided (346R) (77m 10c). 345 points provided.
31/W.2736 - BR(W) Swindon (Ashbury LC)	Iss: 4/5/77. Eff: Immediate.	Ashbury AHB closed. SN.18 becomes DM.70 and SN.85 becomes UM.71.
31/W/2739 - BR(W) Swindon (Thingley Jcn - Chippenham)	Iss: Eff: Saturday 22 and Monday 24 April, 1978.
31/W/2741 - BR(W) Swindon Between Wootton Bassett & Chippenham	Iss: 20 April 1978. Eff:

Reversible Signalling Preparatory Work

Number - Company Title	Date	Description	Source
31/W/2747 - BR(W) Swindon Wootton Bassett.	Iss: 16/10/78. Eff: 28-30/10/78	GPLs SN.205 and SN.278 recovered and replaced with fixed-red main aspects with DAs SN.645 and SN.662 respectively. Also shows SN.43 and SN.43R as recovered and replaced with new SN.43 and yellow aspect in UM85. [Unknown what previous arrangements for SN.43/R were]
31/W/2749 - BR(W) Swindon Uffington	Iss: 25/10/77. Eff: 4-5/11/77.	SN.620 and SN.620R brought into use, allowing movements Down the Up Main between Uffington and Bourton.
31W/2751 - BR(W) Swindon Wootton Bassett	Iss: 20/11/78. Eff: 2-4/12/78.	Trailing crossover at Wootton Bassett BIU. New aspects and routes BIU: SN.645 to UM; SN.662 to DM, both as backing signals only. (Both previously fixed reds with DAs.)
31/W/2756 - BR(W) Swindon Wootton Bassett	Iss: 3/3/80. Eff: 16/3/80	DB LOS recovered, SN.764 lit up as fixed red. Routes to former UB.LOS extended to new SN.764. New route BIU from SN.662 to UB (SN.764). (Also shows new route from SN.662 to DM (DM.84), but this already previously shown as BIU in 31/W/2751....)
31/W/2762 - BR(W) Swindon Panel Hullavington	Iss: 27/6/80. Eff: 6/7/80.	Trailing crossover at Hullavington BIU. SN.774/SN.774R/SN.774RR and SN.733/SN.733R commissioned as backing-signals only.
31/W/2763 - BR(W) Swindon Wootton Bassett West	Iss: 4/7/80 Eff: 13/7/80.	Trailing crossover at Wootton Bassett West BIU. SN.164 and SN.141/SN.141R commissioned as backing-signals only.
31/W/2764 - BR(W) Swindon Panel Uffington	Iss: 17/7/80. Eff: 27/7/80	Trailing crossover at Uffington BIU. SN.610/SN.610R and SN.693/SN.693R/SN.693RR commissioned as backing-signals only.
31/2766 - BR(W) Swindon Panel - Bourton	Iss: 27/10/80. Eff: 2/11/80.	Trailing crossover at Bourton BIU. SN.620/SN.620R and SN.683/SN.683R commissioned as backing-signals only.

Reversible Signalling Commissioning

Number - Company Title	Date	Description	Source
31/2767 - BR(W) Swindon - Wootton Bassett	Iss: 25/11/80. Eff (UM): 6-7/12/80 Eff (DM): 13-14/12/80	Commissioning of reversible signalling on both lines: Swindon West - Wootton Bassett & Wootton Bassett West Facing crossovers at Wootton Bassett and Wootton Bassett West BIU.
31/W/2769 - BR(W) Reading & Swindon Panels Wantage Road - Uffington	Iss: 22/1/81. Eff (UM): 31/1-2/2/81 Eff (DM): 7-9/2/81	Commissioning of reversible signalling on both lines: Wantage Road - Uffington Facing crossover at Uffington BIU.
31/W/2770 - BR(W) Swindon Panel Bourton - Uffington	Iss: 5/3/81. Eff (UM): 14-16/3/81. Eff (DM): 21-23/3/81.	Commissioning of reversible signalling on both lines: Uffington - Bourton Facing crossover at Bourton BIU.
31/W/2773 - BR(W) Swindon Panel Swindon - Highworth - Bourton	Iss: 7/5/81. Eff (UM): 16-18/5/81 Eff (DM): 30/5-1/7/81	Commissioning of reversible signalling on both lines: Bourton - Swindon East
31/2774 - BR(W) Swindon Panel Wootton Bassett West - Hallavington [Sic]	Iss: 3/7/81 Eff (UB): 11-13/7/81 Eff (DB): 18-20/7/81.	Commissioning of reversible signalling on both lines: Wootton Bassett West - Hullavington Facing crossover at Hullavington BIU.
No. 32 - BR(W) Chippenham (Thingley Junction) to Bristol (North Somerset Junction) Introduction of Reversible Signalling	Iss: April 1989. Eff: May 1989.	Commissioning of reversible signalling on both lines: Thingley - Bathampton - Bath Goods - North Somerset Jn (Commissioning of reversible signalling on both lines) [Superseded by No. 33] WANTED!!
No. 33 - BR(W) Chippenham (Thingley Junction) to Bristol (North Somerset Junction) Introduction of Reversible Signalling	Iss: April 1989. Eff: 8/5/89.	Commissioning of reversible signalling on both lines: Thingley - Bathampton - Bath Goods - North Somerset Jn [Supersedes No. 32, Superseded by No. 34]
No. 34 - BR(W) Reversible Signalling Between Chippenham (Thingley Junction) and Bristol (North Somerset Junction)	Iss: May 1989. Eff: (Does not say).	Commissioning of reversible signalling on both lines: Thingley - Bathampton - Bath Goods - North Somerset Jn [Supersedes No. 33]

1990s onwards

Number - Company Title	Date	Description	Source
No. 64 - BR(W) Opening of new Signalling Centre at Swindon B	Iss: July 1993 Eff: 10 - 13 September 1993.
GWS.15 - Railtrack South Marston Swindon Distribution Centre	Iss: Eff: Monday 07 & 14 February 2000.		(P)
GWS.27 - Railtrack South Marston Euro Terminal	Iss: Eff: Monday 11 & Monday 18 February 2002 .		(P)
WTS.6 - Network Rail Swindon Station and Rushey Platt	Iss: Eff: 05.30 Monday 4 September 2006.		(P)