The Signalling Record Society

RailRef Line Codes WX

In 1858 the London & North Western Railway introduced a system of working single lines in which coloured flags were used as the train staff.

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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.

Explanation of column content is here.

RailRef	Line Detail	SBR	ELR
WX001 GW867 NW486	Wrexham & Minera Extension Line datum 0m04c Brymbo Junction GW862 Prince of Wales Crossing 1m50c Ffrith 2m28c Llanfynydd 2m67c Joint Line Junction NW485 187x OS maps show mileages from Chester and from Shrewsbury. Mileages changed to zero at Brymbo after grouping.		FFB