The Signalling Record Society

RailRef Line Codes EL

British Railways developed its automatic warning system (AWS) in the 1950s.

General introduction started towards the end of the decade.

This page should be regarded as “Work in Progress”. The webmaster will welcome additional information for this page.

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	ELR
EL001 GE010 LB030 SE140	East London Junction - East London Down Junction, New Cross LBSCR (0m45c) East London Junction GE001 (0m57c) Shoreditch (1m14c) Whitechapel Whitechapel Junction MD003 (1m05c) Shadwell (2m23c) Wapping (2m49c) Rotherhithe (3m10c) Surrey Quays (1) Canal Junction EL004 EL005 (4m39c) New Cross Gate (2) (1) previously Deptford Road, later Surrey Docks (2) previously New Cross Distances in brackets are from GER system diagram, 1919, datum Liverpool Street; they may or may not be mile post mileages. Now remiled from Dalston Junction.	ELL1
EL002 GE011 LB031 SE141	Deptford Road Junction - Old Kent Road Junction LBSCR
EL003 GE012 LB032 SE142	Deptford Road Junction - East London Up Junction, New Cross LBSCR v Up Loop
EL004 GE013 LB033 SE143	Canal Junction - New Cross SECR v Down Line Canal Junction EL001 New Cross Now remiled from Dalston Junction.	ELL2
EL005 GE014 LB034 SE144	Canal Junction - New Cross SECR v Up Line Canal Junction EL001 New Cross Now remiled from Dalston Junction.	ELL2
EL009	Whitechapel - Broad Street Viaduct Link datum