North Humberside

you could have Gilberdyke box which controls the junction merged with the boxes right through to hull a lot of it is still currently TCB include paragon box, trains alnight shunt between the station and botanic gardens light maintenance shed you would also have the hull docks branch with lines out to saltend, the coal handling terminal, the steel terminal plus various other lines some parts of the docks line are double track some aren't so would need careful regulating, the cricket curve (anlaby road curve) round from the main line onto the Bridlington Branch that part out of paragon - Walton street junction is Bi-di then back to normal the curve back up onto the docks line, then the line out to Bridlington, here you have trains that reverse at Beverley during peak times and also trains continuing onto scarborough the fringe box would be Seamer, which would fringe at Hunmanby.

I do have a lot of information on the signalling along the Hull Line. I have the S&T plans for the Hull Docks Up Grade. A lot has been lost since the 1960s in the Hull it would be good to see the north bank of the Humber as a sim sig simulation. Extend it to Goole and you could link it into the Doncaster PSB sim sig if that ever gets done. There are a lot of Gate Boxes on the line so I could imagine it to be interesting.

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I do have a lot of information on the signalling along the Hull Line. I have the S&T plans for the Hull Docks Up Grade. A lot has been lost since the 1960s in the Hull it would be good to see the north bank of the Humber as a sim sig simulation. Extend it to Goole and you could link it into the Doncaster PSB sim sig if that ever gets done. There are a lot of Gate Boxes on the line so I could imagine it to be interesting.

Yes, I've seen how the area has changed from a 4 track mainline (6 in places) down to 2, most of the gate boxes have gone, only Welton, Cave Crossing and Crabley Creek remain. Hull around to Doncaster / Peterborough / King's Cross with an 85 / 77 timetable would be insane!

an interesting read thank you all.
I would be interested in viewing Stanyon's mockup.

yea centre of hull and the docks line runs past the living room window (dads a train driver who signs paragon and the brid line) also have a lot of railway staff friends, a third siding has been installed in the last year at botanic gardens not used yet though.

Since the 1960s the Hull - Selby Mainline has been decimated following the loss of traffic to and from Hull. This was mainly thanks to development of the UK Motorway network and the Dock workers many strikes from the 1960s to the early 1980s. Around the Hessle Haven area into Hull a small section had 6 roads but two of these was classed as independent lines. <snip>

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Since the 1960s the Hull - Selby Mainline has been decimated following the loss of traffic to and from Hull. This was mainly thanks to development of the UK Motorway network and the Dock workers many strikes from the 1960s to the early 1980s. Around the Hessle Haven area into Hull a small section had 6 roads but two of these was classed as independent lines. <snip>

I believe the LNER used to refer to goods (and in some cases perhaps even slow) lines as 'Independent' lines, so perhaps this was a hangover from that period.

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Since the 1960s the Hull - Selby Mainline has been decimated following the loss of traffic to and from Hull. This was mainly thanks to development of the UK Motorway network and the Dock workers many strikes from the 1960s to the early 1980s. Around the Hessle Haven area into Hull a small section had 6 roads but two of these was classed as independent lines. <snip>

I believe the LNER used to refer to goods (and in some cases perhaps even slow) lines as 'Independent' lines, so perhaps this was a hangover from that period.

I think that the LNER inherited them from the NER, pretty sure it predates the big 4.