The Signalling Record Society

RailRef Line Codes BC

Around 1834 the first rotating board signals worked by a handle at the bottom of the post began to appear on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway.

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In the list below the information is set out in tabular form, spread over four columns. The column entries are -

RailRef	The Line Code used in RailRef system.
Line Detail	The principal locations included within the Line Code. They are arranged in 'down' direction order. Locations shown are primarily stations and junctions to allow easy cross check against published atlases. Signal box names appear in italics where these are 'intermediate' to stations or have been shown to facilitate links from other pages on this web site. The inclusion of a station or junction name does not imply that there was always a signal box of that same name!
SBR	The section reference used in the relevant Signal Box Register published by the Society.
ELR	The corresponding Engineer's Line Reference(s). This will be blank for railways that never came within British Railways terms of reference. It will also be blank where British Railways had no surviving responsibility for infrastructure at the time the ELR system came into use.

RailRef	Line Detail	SBR	ELR
BC001	Bishops Castle Junction GWR - Lydham Heath 0m00c Bishop's Castle Junction SH001 0m70c Stretford Bridge 2m08c Horderley 4m10c Plowden 5m50c Eaton 7m23c Lydham Heath Junction BC002 7m40c Lydham Heath 7m40c end of line
BC002	Lydham Heath Junction - Bishops Castle 7m23c Lydham Heath Junction BC001 9m57c Bishop's Castle 9m57c end of line