Last update 1 December 2020
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| Code | Signal Box | Note | ELR | Mileage | Opened | Closed | Control to |
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| Eagle Crossing | DPJ | 2m 21ch | 1970 | 1993? | |||
| EN | Eaglescliffe North | also had signals lettered D and J, with no number | LEN3 | 3 June 1928 | 9 February 1969 | Bowesfield (B) | |
| D | Down direction automatic signals | ||||||
| U | Up direction automatic signals | ||||||
| ES | Eaglescliffe South | LEN3 | 9 February 1969 | Bowesfield (B) and Urlay Nook (UN) | |||
| D | Down direction automatic signals | ||||||
| U | Up direction automatic signals | ||||||
| ES | Earles Sidings | MAS | 165m 20ch | 1929 | |||
| WFK | Earley | RDG2 | 66m 4ch | ≈1876 | 4 February 1973 | Wokingham (WM) | |
| A | Automatic signals | ||||||
| WG | Earlsfield | BML1 | 5m 45ch | 1 April 1884 | 13 November 1966 | Wimbledon (W) | |
| CR | Earlswood | RED2 VTB2 |
23m 15ch 21m 36ch |
November 1905 | 2 July 1983 | Three Bridges [new] (T) | |
| E | Earsdon | Planned closure mid-1960s (cancelled): control would have been to Holywell | BNE EJM |
2m 53ch 7m 8ch |
27 January 1985 | Newsham South (N) | |
| R | Mechanical distant signals | ||||||
| E | Easington | Code used from late January 1977 | LEN3 | 80m 35ch | 1905 | 10 March 1996 | Dawdon (DN) |
| Easington Colliery | had draw-ahead signals in colliery sidings lettered A to D, with no number | ||||||
| EB | East Boldon | Code used by 1979 | LEN3 | 93m 22ch | ≈1870 | 11 January 2002 | Tyneside (T) |
| E | Eastbourne | Original code | KJE3 | 23m 59ch | 1882 | late on 13 February 2015 delayed from 22 November 2013 |
Three Bridges [new] (EB) |
| EB | Later code | ||||||
| CW | East Croydon | Code used by 1955 | VTB2 | 10m 37ch | 8 May 1955 | 7 April 1984 | Three Bridges [new] (T) |
| CA | Automatic signals | ||||||
| CW | East Croydon North | VTB2 | 10m 25ch | 1896 | 8 May 1955 | East Croydon (CW) | |
| EF | East Farleigh | PWS1 | 42m 76ch | 1892 | delayed from 3 April 2015 |
East Kent Signalling Centre (EK) | |
| E | Eastfield [Peterborough] | ECM1 | 77m 2ch | 31 December 1893 | |||
| QC | Eastfields Road Crossing | Gate box: line controlled by Streatham Junction (BC) | BTH1 | 9m 19ch | 30 September 1962 | 28 June 1981 | Victoria Signalling Centre (VC) |
| EG | East Gate Junction | Later code replacing E | COC | 53m 14ch | 1 December 1924 | 2 March 2009 | Colchester [new] (CO) |
| E | Code used by 1962 | ||||||
| D | Down line automatic signals | ||||||
| RD | Down line automatic repeater signals | ||||||
| RU | Up line automatic repeater signals | ||||||
| U | Up line automatic signals | ||||||
| EH | East Ham depot control room | FSS1 | |||||
| H1 | East Ham No 1 | FSS1 | 6m 6ch | May 1959 | East Ham No 2 (H2) | ||
| H2 | East Ham No 2 | FSS1 | 6m 32ch | 7 May 1960 in part; 1 May 1961 remainder |
Barking [LUL] (FF) in part; Barking (BK) remainder |
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| EH | East Holmes | SPD3 | 82m 60ch | May 1873 | 19 July 2008 | Lincoln Control Centre (LG) | |
| EK | East Kent Signalling Centre | VIR | 36m 3ch | 24 December 2011 | |||
| EV | Sittingbourne area signals. Code used from 29 March 2016 | ||||||
| NK | North Kent line signals. Code used from 7 April 2015 | ||||||
| R | Banner repeater signals | ||||||
| ZW | Eastleigh | BML1 | 73m 17ch | 6 November 1966 | 14 September 1981 | Eastleigh [new] (E) | |
| E | Eastleigh [new] | Code used from 1981 | BML1 | 73m 17ch | 14 September 1981 | ||
| EH | Worting Junction to Southampton Parkway section (some signals may still carry code E). Wrong direction signals carry suffix X, and their repeaters XR (e.g. EH269XR) | ||||||
| GF | Ground frame controlled signals in LHS/Back Road sidings | ||||||
| WA | Automatic signals | ||||||
| Eastleigh C | BML1 | 73m 7ch | 1918 | ||||
| Eastleigh DEMU Depot | EYD | 74m 32ch? | 7 July 1968 | ||||
| ETF | 74m 25ch? | ||||||
| E | East Linton | ECM8 | 23m 54ch | 21 November 1977 | Edinburgh (EF) | ||
| ELJ | East London Junction | LTN1 | 0m 48ch | April 1875 | 11 September 1949 | Liverpool Street (L) | |
| EL | East London Line SCC [New Cross Gate] | ELL1 | 5m 33ch | 18 January 2010 | |||
| BS | Silwood depot berthing sidings stop boards | ||||||
| BK | East Midlands Control Centre | Bedford to Kettering section (planned) | DBP1 | 0m 15ch | 6 August 2007 temporarily in Trent PSB; 29 August 2008 in own building |
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| CB | Chesterfield to Barrow Hill section. Code used from 1 September 2008 | ||||||
| CS | Chesterfield to Sheffield section. Code used from 1 September 2008 | ||||||
| CT | Former Croft signals. Code used from 2 January 2012 | ||||||
| DC | Derby to Chesterfield section. Code used from 1 September 2008 | ||||||
| DW | Derby to Wichnor section. Code used from 3 September 2018 | ||||||
| DY | Former Derby PSB West Panel area signals. Code used from 11 May 2015 | ||||||
| EC | Etches Park carriage sidings to Chaddesden sidings. Code used from 3 September 2018 | ||||||
| GN | Grantham to Nottingham section. Code used from 10 August 2013 | ||||||
| KM | Kettering to Manton Junction section | ||||||
| LR | Former Leicester signals. Code used from 2 January 2012 | ||||||
| MS | Mansfield Junction to Kirkby Summit section. Code used from 12 September 2011 | ||||||
| NN | Nottingham to Newark section. Code used from 10 August 2013 | ||||||
| PK | Pye Bridge to Kirkby Lane End Junction section | ||||||
| R | One former Leicester area banner repeater (LR54BR carried R54BR) | ||||||
| RT | Radford to Trowell section | ||||||
| SS | Sheet Stores Junction to Stenson Junction section. Code used from 27 December 2009 | ||||||
| SS | Sinfin sidings points (code not carried on signals) | ||||||
| ST | Syston to Trent section. Code used from 27 December 2009 | ||||||
| TC | Trent to Chesterfield section. Code used from 1 September 2008 | ||||||
| TD | Trent to Derby section. Code used from 27 December 2009 | ||||||
| TN | Trent to Nottingham section. Code used from 27 December 2009 | ||||||
| TT | Trent to Trowell section | ||||||
| WH | Former West Hampstead signals (planned) | ||||||
| X | "Creep" signals at Kettering | ||||||
| WBE | East Putney | PPW | 5m 64ch | 8 March 1889 | 11 February 1991 delayed from 24 September 1990 |
Wimbledon (W) | |
| Eastrington | HUL1 | 19m 25ch | 17 September 1989 | Gilberdyke Junction (G) | |||
| EK | East Suffolk Junction | LTN1 | 69m 47ch | 1912 | 5 April 1984 | Colchester [new] (CO) | |
| MU | East Usk | Mechanical signals | SWM2 | 157m 2ch | 16 April 1961 as temporary panel: unclear whether in separate building Converted from ground frame February 2000 |
4 January 2010 (official) burnt down 19 April 2009 |
South Wales Control Centre (NT) |
| EU | At least one signal | ||||||
| M | At least one signal | ||||||
| U | Panel signals | ||||||
| Eastville | Downgraded to gate box 18 April 1973 | GRS3 | 116m 78ch | April 1889 inspected 22 November 1890 |
5 March 1989 | Bellwater Junction (BJ) | |
| B | Ebbw Junction | SWM2 | 160m 11ch | 1898 | 19 May 1963 | Newport (N) | |
| ES | Eccles | DSE | 27m 59ch | 1933 | |||
| EC | Eccles Crossing | HXS3 | 10m 78ch | 1912 | 11 March 1994 | Merseyrail (ML) | |
| EW | Ecclesfield West | SHB | 164m 24ch | 1896 | 10 April 1998 | Barnsley (BY) | |
| ER | Eccles Road | ETN | 104m 44ch | 1883 | 2 December 2012 | Cambridge (EN) | |
| EE | Edale | MAS | 169m 23ch | 1893 | |||
| E | Code given on 2006 signalling plan | ||||||
| EV | Eden Valley | CGJ7 | ≈47m 78ch | 17 March 1973 | Carlisle (CE) | ||
| EH | Edge Hill | Code used to ≈1985 | DSE WJL3 |
1m 57ch 191m 75ch |
28 August 1961 | 3 November 2019 | Manchester Rail Operating Centre (LE) |
| LE | Code used from ≈1985 | ||||||
| Edge Hill No 13 | See Exhibition Junction | ||||||
| EL | Edge Lane | Burnt down ≈28 February 1987 | SCT1 | ≈0m 51ch | Edge Hill (EH) | ||
| EY1 | Edgeley Junction No 1 | Code used for some signals by October 1978. Code used for all signals from 3 September 2004 | CMP1 | 182m 36ch | 1884 | ||
| EJ | Earlier code | ||||||
| EJ1 | Code mentioned in 1989: unclear if carried | ||||||
| EY | Code mentioned in 1986: unclear if carried | ||||||
| EY2 | Edgeley Junction No 2 | Code used from 3 September 2004 | CMP2 | 182m 54ch | 1884 | ||
| E2 | Unclear whether code used | ||||||
| E | Edinburgh | Edinburgh interlocking. Code used from 1976 | ECM9 | 0m 7ch | 3 October 1976 | ||
| CC | Former Cowlairs signals (Cowlairs interlocking). Code used from 6 October 2013 | ||||||
| CE | Former Cowlairs signals (Eastfield interlocking). Code used from 6 October 2013 | ||||||
| CG | Former Cowlairs signals (Gartshore interlocking). Code used from 6 October 2013 | ||||||
| CN | Former Cowlairs signals (Garnqueen interlocking). Code used from 6 October 2013 | ||||||
| CQ | Former Cowlairs signals (Queen Street interlocking). Code used from 6 October 2013 | ||||||
| CS | Springburn interlocking. Code used from 6 October 2013 | ||||||
| EA | Prestonpans interlocking. Code used from 1977 | ||||||
| EAL | Almond interlocking. Code used from 18 May 2015 | ||||||
| EB | Ladybank interlocking. Code used from 1980 | ||||||
| EC | Cowdenbeath interlocking. Code used from 1981 | ||||||
| ECL | Larbert interlocking. Code used from 27 December 2017 | ||||||
| ED | Dunbar and Oxwellmains interlockings. Code used from 1976 | ||||||
| EF | Drem interlocking. Code used from 1977 | ||||||
| EG | Grantshouse interlocking. Code used from 1977 | ||||||
| EH | Haymarket interlocking. Code used from 1975 | ||||||
| EJ | Midcalder Junction interlocking. Code used from 1981 | ||||||
| EJW | West Calder interlocking. Code used from 30 August 2018 | ||||||
| EK | Kirkcaldy interlocking. Code used from 1980 | ||||||
| EL | Linlithgow interlocking. Code used from 1979 | ||||||
| EM | Monktonhall interlocking. Code used from 1977 | ||||||
| EM | Millerhill interlocking. Code used from 25 November 2012 | ||||||
| EMB | Borders Rail Link interlocking. Code used from 8 June 2015 | ||||||
| EN | Newbridge interlocking. Code used from 1978 | ||||||
| EO | Townhill and Charlestown interlockings. Code used from 1980 | ||||||
| EP | Portobello interlocking. Code used from 1976 | ||||||
| EPB | Bo'ness interlocking signals. Code used from 25 November 2012 | ||||||
| EPJ | Polmont interlocking signals. Code used from 25 November 2012 | ||||||
| EPR | Portobello interlocking banner repeater signals | ||||||
| ER | Markinch interlocking. Code used from 1980 | ||||||
| ES | Slateford interlocking. Code used from 1977 | ||||||
| ET | Thornton and Redford interlockings. Code used from 1980 | ||||||
| EU | Burntisland interlocking. Code used from 1979 | ||||||
| EV | Inverkeithing interlocking. Code used from 1979 | ||||||
| EVR | Inverkeithing interlocking banner repeater signals | ||||||
| EW | Winchburgh interlocking. Code used from 1979 | ||||||
| EY | Dalmeny and North Queensferry interlockings. Code used from 1979 | ||||||
| GJ | Former Greenhill Junction signals. Code used from 27 December 2017 | ||||||
| RE | Former repeater signals (now superseded by suffix BR) | ||||||
| RU | Repeaters to up line automatic signals. Code use by 1977 | ||||||
| U | Up line automatic signals. Code used by 1977 | ||||||
| WW | Effingham Junction | NGL | 21m 20ch | 12 July 1925 | 20 April 1969 | Guildford [panel] (WX) | |
| P | Eggborough Power Station | EGG2 | 18 July 1966? | ||||
| A | Draw ahead signals | ||||||
| B | |||||||
| EN | Egginton Junction | NSS | 26m 69ch | January 1877 | |||
| WFG | Egham | Downgraded to gate box 8 September 1974 | RDG1 | 21m 7ch | ≈1880 | 3 February 1975 | Feltham (F) |
| E | Eglinton Street [Glasgow] | Believed code not carried | 15 November 1908 | 2 January 1961 | High Street Junction (HS) | ||
| D | Egmanton | Down direction automatic signals | ECM1 | 130m 29ch | 1899 | 24 October 1976 | Carlton (CA) |
| E | Elderslie No 1 | AYR3 | 8m 74ch | 20 December 1908 | 6 October 1985 | Paisley [new] (PE) | |
| E | Elgin | Named Elgin West to 11 November 1973. Code used 2002 to 2003 | ANI2 | 11m 74ch | 4 April 1951 | 7 October 2017 | Inverness (HE) |
| EL | Code used from 11 January 2003 | ||||||
| E | Elland | MVN2 | 31m 61ch | 21 May 1958 | 26 July 2009 | Greetland Emergency Operating Panel (HM) | |
| R | Distant signals | ||||||
| U | Up line automatic signals believed that down line indicates to Brighouse |
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| Ellesmere Port No 1 | HHJ | 2m 71ch | 4 October 1971 | ||||
| Ellesmere Port No 2 | HHJ | 3m 26ch | 6 November 1983 | Ellesmere Port (EP) | |||
| Ellesmere Port No 3 | HHJ | 3m 34ch | June 1967 | Ellesmere Port No 2 | |||
| EP | Ellesmere Port No 4 | Named Ellesmere Port to 6 November 1983. Built on base of original (burnt down) Ellesmere Port No 4 | HHJ | 3m 70ch | 1972 | ||
| Ellesmere Port No 5 | HHJ | 4m 43ch | 6 November 1983 | Ellesmere Port (EP) | |||
| Ellesmere Port No 6 | See Ellesmere Port No 4 | ||||||
| EBP | Elmers End | LCH | 27 May 1882 | 27 September 1975 | London Bridge (L) | ||
| EC | Elmhurst Crossing | LEC2 | ≈118m 22ch | Lichfield Trent Valley Low Level (LD) | |||
| EL | Elmswell | Demolished 1986 | CCH | 37m 14ch | 1887 | 11 August 1985 | Colchester [new] (CO) |
| E | Elmton & Creswell Junction | Probably switched out at 2012, though switched in again about once a month | PSE | 149m 37ch | 1946 | ||
| EC | |||||||
| E | Elsecar Junction | Named Broomhill to 17 November 1985. Downgraded to gate box from renaming | PED3 | 12m 10ch | August 1891 | 19 June 1982 | Line closed |
| U | Elsenham | Downgraded to gate box 11 December 1983. Up direction automatic signals | BGK | 35m 40ch | 20 June 1932 | Cambridge (CA) | |
| RU | Repeaters to up direction automatic signals | ||||||
| E | Elsham | DOW | 31m 34ch | 1885 | 3 March 2003 | Elsham [temporary panel] (EM) | |
| EM | Elsham [temporary panel] | DOW | 31m 34ch | 3 March 2003 | 1 November 2004 | Elsham [reopened] (EM) | |
| EM | Elsham | Reopened original 'box following rebuilding | DOW | 31m 34ch | 1 November 2004 | 30 December 2015 | York Rail Operating Centre (BD) |
| Eltham | See Mottingham | ||||||
| E | Elvanfoot | Code used from 1972 | WCM1 | 52m 35ch | 14 November 1916 | 20 July 1972 | Abington (A) |
| ED | Ely Dock Junction | BGK SOB2 |
69m 73ch 12m 27ch |
1928 | 10 April 1992 | Cambridge (CA) | |
| ENJ | Ely North Junction | BGK | 71m 63ch | 1926 | 27 April 1992 | Cambridge (CA) | |
| EJ | Code reported in 1980: unclear if carried | ||||||
| ESN | Ely Station North | BGK | 70m 38ch | 1880 | 10 April 1992 | Cambridge (CA) | |
| EN | |||||||
| ET | Enfield Town | ENT | 10m 40ch | 1905 | 26 November 2001 | Liverpool Street [new] (L) | |
| D | Down line automatic signals | ||||||
| RU | Repeaters to up line automatic signals | ||||||
| U | Up line automatic signals | ||||||
| ES | Engine Shed [Old Oak Common] | OOC1 | 2m 79ch | 2 May 1937 | 15 December 1977 | to hand levers | |
| ES | Engine Shed Junction | WCR | ≈25 June 1983 | Edge Hill (EH) | |||
| EJ | Engine Shed Junction | SPC1 | ≈1m 66ch | 5 December 1981 | West Hampstead (WH) | ||
| E | Engine Shed Junction | TJC3 | 195m 25ch | Leeds (L) | |||
| EJ | |||||||
| ES1 | Engine Sidings No 1 | SPC8 | 127m 75ch | 18 December 1892 | 12 July 1969 | Derby (DY) | |
| ES2 | Engine Sidings No 2 | SPC7 | ≈127m 57ch | 23 March 1890 | 8 February 1987 | Derby (DY) | |
| CBF | Epsom | BTH2 | 14m 18ch | 24 February 1929 | 29 July 1990 | Wimbledon (W) | |
| WA | Automatic signals | ||||||
| EN | Erdington | ALC1 | 2m 16ch | 1 December 1985 | Erdington [new] (EN) | ||
| REN | Distant signals | ||||||
| EN | Erdington [new] | ALC1 | 2m 16ch | 1 December 1985 | 12 October 1992 | Aston (AN) | |
| REN | Distant signals | ||||||
| - | Eridge | SCU1 | 35m 51ch | 6 January 1879 | 7 January 1990 | Oxted [new] (OD) | |
| ER | Errol | Code used from 2002 | SCM5 | 10m 44ch | 1877 | ||
| D | Eryholme | Down line automatic signals | ECM5 | 11 June 1939 | Eryholme [new] (E) | ||
| U | Up line automatic signals | ||||||
| E | Eryholme [new] | Codes used from opening | ECM5 | 38m 74ch | 11 June 1939 | 29 January 1977 | Darlington (D) |
| D | Down line automatic signals | ||||||
| U | Up line automatic signals | ||||||
| U | Essendine | Up direction automatic signals. Named Essendine North to 21 December 1964 | ECM1 | 88m 62ch | 2 December 1912 | 13 April 1975 | Little Bytham (LB) and Tallington (T) |
| Essendine North | See Essendine | ||||||
| EW | Essington Wood | Near Springhill disposal point, Bloxwich | WCC? | 1982 | Line closed? | ||
| EO | Esso Sidings | DBP3 | ≈38m 20ch | ≈28 April 1984 | Saltley (SY)? | ||
| EN | Euston | LEC1 | 0m 14ch | 27 September 1965 | August 2000 | Wembley Mainline (WM) | |
| ENX | Set back signals | ||||||
| REN | Repeater signals | ||||||
| EV | Everton | Downgraded to gate box 25 July 1976: line controlled by St Neots (SN) | ECM1 | 46m 31ch | 27 June 1894 | 17 May 1998 | Peterborough (P) |
| E | Evesham | OWW | 106m 76ch | 15 March 1957 | |||
| ES | Exchange Sidings Shunter's Cabin [Dagenham] | - | 316.73km | 26 November 2006 | Upminster [new] (UR) | ||
| ES | Exchange Sidings [West Midlands] | Downgraded to shunt frame 23 August 1969 | RBS1 | ≈111m 46ch | 17 September 1989 | Saltley (SY) | |
| ESR | Repeater signals | ||||||
| E | Exeter | MLN1 | 194m 0ch | 1 April 1985 | |||
| CL | Cornwall area signals (proposed) | ||||||
| DM | Down main line automatic signals | ||||||
| DT | Down Torbay line automatic signals | ||||||
| PH | Plymouth to Hemerdon section (proposed) | ||||||
| UA | Up Athelney line automatic signals | ||||||
| UM | Up main line automatic signals | ||||||
| UT | Up Torbay line automatic signals | ||||||
| EC | Exeter Central A | Code from 29 October 1984 | BAE2 | 171m 33ch | 15 June 1927 | 6 May 1985 | Exeter (E) |
| WDJ | Code used from 1963 to 28 October 1984 | ||||||
| CB | Exeter City Basin | MLN1 | 195m 19ch | 9 December 1962 | 14 November 1986 | Exeter (E) | |
| EW | Exeter West | MLN1 | 194m 4ch | 1913 | 3 May 1985 | Exeter (E) | |
| EJ | Exhibition Junction | Formerly named Edge Hill No 13 | WCR | 1929 | Edge Hill (EH) | ||
| Exminster | MLN1 | 198m 59ch | 9 June 1924 | 14 November 1986 | Exeter (E) | ||
| WDH | Exmouth Junction | Code used from 1963 | BAE2 | 170m 21ch | 1875 | 15 November 1959 | Exmouth Junction [new] (EJ) |
| EJ | Exmouth Junction [new] | BAE2 | 170m 21ch | 17 November 1959 | |||
| Eynsford | SBJ | 20m 32ch | 9 November 1932 | 21 February 1971 | Victoria Signalling Centre (VS) | ||
| Eyton Crossing | Gate box | WSJ2 | ≈178m 63ch | Crewe Junction [Shrewsbury] (CJ) | |||