The Signalling Record Society
RailRef Line Codes LE
Signal Fact 31
In 1863 Charles Spagnoletti, Telegraph Superintendent of the Great Western Railway, devised a block instrument in which a disc swung to show the legend Train on Line or Line Clear in a little window.
Instruments of this type were still used by British Railways well through that organisation's life span!
London Electric 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. |
These lines comprise the Underground Electric Railways of London lines (UE). Formed in 1902, UE acquired ownership of the various deep level tube lines in London between then and 1915. In the central London area the lines ran generally in paired single line tunnels, one for each direction. For the purposes of this listing both tunnels are treated as 'one' tunnel.
The entire London Underground network was changed to kilometric measurement with a datum of Ongar. Ongar was closed soon after!
| RailRef | Line Detail | SBR | ELR |
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| LE001 | Baker Street & Waterloo Railway (Bakerloo) datum Elephant & Castle(1) Kennington Road until 1906, then Westminster Bridge Road until 1917; Lambeth North from 1927 (2) Charing Cross for Trafalgar Square from 1977 QLT1: Southbound Bakerloo at Queens Park 3m69c - 3m71c QLT2: Northbound Bakerloo at Queens Park 3m67c - 3m70c |
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| LE002 | London Road Depot Branch and Lines datum London Road Depot |
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| LE003 | Stanmore Branch Connector datum Baker Street LE001 LE040(1) Lord's from 1939 |
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| LE004 | Queens Park Depot Lines datum |
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| LE010 | Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway (Northern)
Kennington LE011 LE014(1) Tottenham Court Road until 1908 (2) Euston Road until 1908 (3) Charing Cross until 1914, then Charing Cross (Strand) until 1915; Charing Cross from 1979 (4) Brent Cross from 1976 * Edgware - Bushey Heath partially constructed, work stopped by WWII and never resumed. |
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| LE010e | Embankment Loop | ||
| LE011 | Kennington Loop
Kennington LE010For turning trains off Charing Cross Branch back to the Charing Cross Branch. |
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| LE012 | Highgate Branch
Camden Town LE010 LE014(1) Archway (Highgate) from 1939, then Highbury (Archway) from 1941, then Archway from 1947 |
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| LE013 | Highgate Depot Lines
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| LE014 | City & South London Railway (Northern)
Camden Town LE010 LE012(1) Clapham North from 1926 (2) Kings Cross St Pancras from 1933 (3) Tooting Bec from 1950 Article: Railway Magazine 1951 February. |
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| LE015 | King William Street Spur
King William Street |
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| LE016 | Morden Depot Lines
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| LE017 | Battersea Extension
Kennington |
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| LE020 | Great Northern, Piccadilly & Brompton Railway (Piccadilly) datum Cockfosters(1) Arsenal (Highbury Hill) from 1932 (2) Kings Cross St Pancras from 1933 (3) Holborn (Kingsway) from 1933 |
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| LE021 | Cockfosters Depot Lines datum |
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| LE021f | Kings Cross Loop
Piccadilly Line end LE020 |
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| LE022 | Aldwych Branch datum Holborn LE020(1) Strand until 1915 |
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| LE023 | Heathrow Central Branch datum Hounslow Junction MD(1) Heathrow Central Terminals 1,2,3 from 1986, Heathrow Terminals 1,2,3 from 1986 |
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| LE030 | Victoria Line datum Brixton |
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| LE031 | Northumberland Park Branch and Depot Lines datum |
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| LE040 | Jubilee Line datum Stratford |
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| LE041 | Charing Cross Branch datum Charing Cross |
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| LE050 | Central London Railway (Central) datum Leyton Junction GE191(1) Oxford Street until 1908 (2) Chancery Lane (Grays Inn) from 1935 (3) St Paul's from 1937 (4) Queensway from 1946 |
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| LE051 | Newbury Park - Leytonstone datum Newbury Park Junction GE192 |