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RailRef Line Codes IC

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	ELR
IC001	Smallbrook Junction - Cowes datum Ryde Pier Head 2m10c Smallbrook Junction IW010 3m71c Ashey 5m35c Haven Street (1) 6m76c Wootton (IoWSR) 7m02c Wootton (IoWCR) 7m63c Whippingham 9m64c Newport Junction IC002 9m77c Newport Newport FY&N Junction IF001 11m28c Cement Mills Halt 12m68c Medina Wharf Junction IC004 13m09c Medina Platform 13m67c Mill Hill 14m23c Cowes (1) Havenstreet from 1958 IWR: Smallbrook Junction - Newport Junction (9m74c) IWC: 9m74c - Cowes Mileposts originally measured from Ryde St Johns Road. Changed by Southern Railway in 1920s. Smallbrook Junction - Wootton now IoW Steam Railway. Article: Railway Magazine 1962 June.	IWR IWC
IC002	Ventnor Town - Newport datum 10m54c Ventnor Town (1) 9m30c St Lawrence (2) 7m68c Whitwell 5m34c Godshill Merstone Junction IC003 3m66c Merstone Junction station (3) 2m05c Blackwater (4) 0m71c Shide Pan Mill 0m00c Newport Junction IC001 (1) Ventnor West from 1923 (2) Ventnor St Lawrence until 1900 (3) Merstone until 1911 (4) Blackwater I.O.W. from 1923 Note in Southern Way, issue 15, mentions that this line was "down" to Ventnor until about 1928.	IWV
IC003	Sandown - Merstone datum 0m00c Sandown Junction IW010 1m40c Alverstone 2m52c Newchurch 3m58c Horringford 5m23c Merstone Junction IC002 Note in Southern Way, issue 15, mentions that this line was "down" to Merstone until about 1928.	IWM
IC004	Medina Wharf Branch datum Medina Wharf Junction IC001 Medina Wharf