Verney Junction Station Signage?

[Chrius56000]

. . .According to Wikipedia, the former Verney Junction Station on the E.W.R. line came under control of British Rail (Eastern Region) – very unusually for a line that far west of the W.C.M.L., and photos of Verney Junction Station on the "Disused Stations" website showed it was fitted with maroon L.M.R. signage at the time of closure – was it ever fitted with dark blue E.R. signage at or after nationalisation before the L.M.R. took it over in 1962?

 

[Gloster]

Methinks that Mr W.Ikipedia is wrong. As far as I can see from a list on the Signalling Record Society’s website the boundary never came west of Willington.

 

[Chrius56000]

. . .So the early B.R. Signage added to Verney Junction would have been L.M.R. Maroon right from the word go then?

. . .(I'm not sure why Claydon Junction was named "Claydon L.N.E." if the Regional Boundary between L.M.R./E.R. was at Willington tho!)

 

[Gloster]

. . .So the early B.R. Signage added to Verney Junction would have been L.M.R. Maroon right from the word go then?

. . .(I'm not sure why Claydon Junction was named "Claydon L.N.E." if the Regional Boundary between L.M.R./E.R. was at Willington tho!)

It seems so. On 1 February 1958, the same date as the transfer of the eastern end of the line to the ER, Oxford to Bicester London Road passed to the WR.

 

[DelW]

. . .(I'm not sure why Claydon Junction was named "Claydon L.N.E." if the Regional Boundary between L.M.R./E.R. was at Willington tho!)

Presumably because it was the junction with the connection to the Great Central, which had become part of the LNER at the grouping.

Verney Junction station could be reached from the south via the Met/GC joint line, though I'm not clear whether or not that ever came under the LNER.

 

[Magdalia]

There were two different routes from Aylesbury to Verney Junction.

Verney Junction station could be reached from the south via the Met/GC joint line, though I'm not clear whether or not that ever came under the LNER.

After grouping this became a Met/LNER Joint Line. Junction with the Met/GC main line was at Quainton Road. Passenger service had already ceased before World War 2, but the Quainton Road-Verney Junction line still appears in the 1947 LNER Sectional Appendix as a branch of line No 3 Marylebone-Manchester.

I'm not sure why Claydon Junction was named "Claydon L.N.E." if the Regional Boundary between L.M.R./E.R. was at Willington tho!)

The curve from Calvert on the LNER to the LMS line near Claydon was constructed during World War 2. From the LMS perspective the curve was a link to the L&NER hence the junction at their end being called Claydon L&NE Junction.