The Signalling Record Society

RailRef Line Codes CV

Track circuits were devised in the USA in 1872 by William Robinson.

William Sykes tried one out at Crystal Palace in 1876.

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	SBR	ELR
CV001	Chappel Junction to Haverhill 50m29c Chappel Junction GE220 White Colne (1) Earls Colne (2) Halstead 60m43c footpath LC footpath LC 60m61c Sible & Castle Headingham (3) Yeldham Whitley Birdbrook Colne Valley Junction GE225 69m29c Haverhill (1) originally Colne (2) originally Ford Gate, later Colne (3) originally Castle Headingham; now Castle Hedingham 60m20c - 61m03 now Colne Valley Railway		COV