
Last update 11 December 2020
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Code | Signal Box | Note | ELR | Mileage | Opened | Closed | Control to |
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TE | Talacre | CNH3 | 201m 76ch | 1903 | late on 23 March 2018 last train; 26 March 2018 official |
Wales Rail Operating Centre (FH) | |
T | Tallington | Downgraded to gate box 5 July 1975: line controlled by Helpston (H) | ECM1 | 84m 64ch | 13 April 1975 | 29 March 1998 | Helpston (H) |
TH | Tamworth | Formerly Tamworth Low Level | LEC2 | 110m 12ch | 1910 | 23 August 2008 | Rugby Signalling Control Centre (NL) |
TH | Tamworth High Level | DBP1 | 23m 61ch | August 1925 | Saltley (SY) | ||
TA | Taplow | Downgraded to ground frame 8 December 1963 | MLN1 | 22m 30ch | 30 June 1930 | 20 July 1974 | Slough (S) |
DM | Down main line automatic signals | ||||||
DR | Down relief line automatic signals | ||||||
TJ | Tapton Junction | SPC9 | ≈146m 69ch | 25 March 1972 | Sheffield (S) | ||
T | |||||||
TC | Tattenham Corner | TAT | 23m 26ch | 6 April 1925 | 25 September 1983 | Purley (CU) | |
CA | Automatic signals | ||||||
DTC | Distant signals | ||||||
T | Taunton East Junction | Code from 12 May 1986 | MLN1 WTZ |
162m 63ch 162m 63ch |
13 December 1931 | 21 March 1987 | Exeter (E) |
TE | Code to 12 May 1986 | ||||||
TS | Tay Bridge South | ECN2 | 56m 36ch | 20 June 1887 | |||
TB | Unclear whether code used | ||||||
TY | Tees | Also known as Tees Yard | DSN2 TSY |
12m 70ch 12m 70ch |
12 August 1962 | ||
T | |||||||
D | Down automatic signals | ||||||
U | Up automatic signals | ||||||
NS | Tees Signalling Control Centre | Newcastle to Sunderland section | DSN2 | 12m 70ch | |||
Tees Yard | See Tees | ||||||
Teignmouth | MLN1 | 208m 78ch | February 1896 | 14 November 1986 | Exeter (E) | ||
TE | Templecombe | BAE2 | 112m 2ch | 15 May 1938 | 27 February 2012 | Basingstoke Signalling Control Centre (SE) | |
DM | Down main line automatic signals | ||||||
DUM | Up main line down direction automatic signals | ||||||
UM | Up main line automatic signals | ||||||
TE | Temple Mills East | SDC | 4m 54ch | 29 June 1958 | 14 November 1987 | Stratford (S) | |
TM | Temple Mills Eurostar Depot | TMD | ≈12.287km | 2006 | |||
TW | Temple Mills West | SDC | 6m 8ch | 29 June 1958 | 20 March 1988 | Brimsdown (BD) | |
D | Down line automatic signals | ||||||
RTW | Banner repeater signals | ||||||
U | Up line automatic signals | ||||||
UM | Up main line automatic signals | ||||||
MY | Temple Mills Yard | Code shown on 2015 signalling plan | SDC | ||||
U | Tempsford | Up direction automatic signals | ECM1 | 47m 38ch | 30 October 1893 | 23 July 1976 | St Neots (SN) |
TJ | Terminus Junction | CLY | 101m 44ch | 7 October 1878 | 2 June 1974 | Glasgow Central (G) | |
EX | Teynham Crossing | Downgraded to gate box 1967: line controlled by Sittingbourne (EV) | VIR | 47m 78ch | 8 March 1945 | 24 December 2011 | East Kent Signalling Centre (EK) |
TB | Thames Board Mills Crossing | Stop boards | TLL | 16m 38ch | 27 May 1996 | ||
T | Thames Haven (also called Terminus ground frame?) |
THN | ≈30m 18ch | Upminster [new] (UR) | |||
TH | Thames Haven Junction | TLL | ≈26m 50ch | 19 August 1973 | Low Street (L) | ||
TR | Thames Valley Signalling Centre | Original code | DCL DWC |
53m 38ch 0m 19ch |
21 March 2010 | ||
BL | Former Bristol signals (Filton-Westerleigh area) | ||||||
DW | Down Westbury line automatic signals. Code shown on signalling plan | ||||||
FY | "Creep" signals at Theale Foster Yeoman sidings | ||||||
HY | Hinksey Yard stop boards. Code shown on signalling plan | ||||||
OD | Oxford area signals. Code used from 16 July 2018 | ||||||
OOC | Old Oak Common area signals. Code used on new station development plan | ||||||
SB | Former Swindon B IECC signals. Code used from 27 December 2012 | ||||||
SN | Former Slough New IECC signals. Code used from 27 December 2011 | ||||||
SW | Former Swindon signals | ||||||
T | Southern line signals. Code shown on signalling plan | ||||||
T | Oxford-Worcester line signals. Code shown on signalling plan but never used | ||||||
T | Reading area signals. Code used from 29 March 2013 | ||||||
TRK | Kintbury crossing signals. Code shown on signalling plan | ||||||
UW | Up Westbury line automatic signals. Code shown on signalling plan | ||||||
Z | Draw forward signals near Stockley | ||||||
TH | Theale | BHL | 41m 19ch | 1920 | 17 September 1977 | Reading (R) | |
TH | The Hall | NHL | 126m 39ch | 5 April 1876 | 23 May 1965 | Netherfield Junction (NJ) | |
D | Theobalds Grove | Ground Frames | HDT | Liverpool Street [new] (L) | |||
U | |||||||
T | Thetford | Code in use by 1980 | ETN | 93m 44ch | 1883 | 20 August 2012 delayed from 25 June 2012 |
Cambridge (EN) |
T | Thingley Junction | MLN1 | 96m 9ch | January 1903 | 23 March 1968 | Swindon (SN) | |
DM | Down main line automatic signals | ||||||
UM | Up main line automatic signals | ||||||
TK | Thirsk | Code used from 19 September 1965 | ECM5 | 22m 34ch | 5 November 1933 | 20 January 1990 | York [IECC] (Y) |
D | Down line controlled and automatic signals. Code used from opening to 19 September 1965 | ||||||
DF | Down fast line automatic signals. Code used from 19 September 1965 | ||||||
DS | Down slow line automatic signals. Code used from 19 September 1965 | ||||||
U | Up line controlled and automatic signals. Code used from opening to 19 September 1965. Slow lines have suffix S | ||||||
UF | Up fast line automatic signals. Code used from 19 September 1965 | ||||||
US | Up slow line automatic signals. Code used from 19 September 1965 | ||||||
Thoresby Colliery | had draw-ahead signals lettered A to E, with no number | TYC | ≈1m 5ch | ||||
T | Thoresby Colliery Junction | Code not carried also had draw-ahead signals lettered A to E, with no number | HIM TYC |
17m 21ch 0m 0ch |
1926 | ||
TH | Thorington | Downgraded to gate box 21 December 1958: line controlled by Thorpe-le-Soken (T) | COC | 59m 43ch | 1885 | 4 May 2009 | Colchester [new] (CO) |
TX | Gate box code | ||||||
TE | Thornaby East | DSN2 | ≈11m 69ch | Tees (TY) | |||
TN | Thorne Moor | TJG2 | ≈12m 32ch | 2 December 1979 | Goole (G) | ||
TM | Unclear if code carried | ||||||
TH | Thornhill | Code used from 2002 | GSW | 77m 58ch | 10 October 1943 | ||
TL | Thornhill L&NW Junction | MVN2 | 39m 74ch | Mirfield Junction No 3 (M3) | |||
TMJ | Thornhill Midland Junction | MVN2? | Healey Mills (HM) | ||||
U | Up line automatic signals | ||||||
T | Thornton Abbey | Formerly named Barton Road Level Crossing. Gate box: line controlled by Ulceby (South) Junction (UJ) to 20 December 2015, then Goxhill (from 30 December 2015) | BAR | ≈103m 11ch | |||
BL | Code when named Barton Road Level Crossing | ||||||
CZ | Thornton Heath | VTB1 | 8m 50ch | 21 June 1903 | 19 December 1976 | Three Bridges (T) | |
CA | Automatic signals | ||||||
TC | Thorpe Culvert | GRS4 | 2m 20ch | 1888 | 8 February 2003 | Thorpe Culvert [temporary panel] (TC) | |
TC | Thorpe Culvert [temporary panel] | GRS4 | 2m 21ch | 9 February 2003 | 18 May 2003 | Thorpe Culvert [reopened] (TC) | |
TC | Thorpe Culvert [reopened] | Reopened original 'box following rebuilding | GRS4 | 2m 20ch | 18 May 2003 | ||
TG | Thorpe Gates | Downgraded to gate box 20 May 1973: line controlled by Selby West (S). Demolished 13/14 October 2013 | HUL3 | 2m 27ch | 1873 | 5 October 2013 | Selby West (S) |
T | Thorpe-Le-Soken | Code probably used from 23 July 1989 | COC | 65m 7ch | 1882 | 4 May 2009 | Colchester [new] (CO) |
D | Down line automatic signals | ||||||
RD | Down line automatic repeater signals | ||||||
RU | Up line automatic repeater signals | ||||||
U | Up line automatic signals | ||||||
CEGB | Thorpe Marsh Power Station | by 1980 | after 1994 | line closed | |||
T | |||||||
TM | |||||||
A | Unloading signals | ||||||
B | |||||||
T | Thorpe On The Hill | NOB1 | 27m 28ch | 12 May 1907 | 19 March 1988 | Swinderby (S) | |
TB | Thorpes Bridge Junction | MVN2 | 2m 24ch | 26 September 1987 | 27 November 1982 | Thorpes Bridge Junction [temporary] (TB) | |
TB | Thorpes Bridge Junction [temporary] | MVN2 | 2m 26ch | 27 November 1982 | 6 December 1982 | Thorpes Bridge Junction [reopened] (TB) | |
TB | Thorpes Bridge Junction [reopened] | MVN2 | 2m 24ch | 6 December 1982 | 7 August 1998 | Manchester North (MN) | |
CL | Three Bridges | VTB3 | 29m 34ch | 27 April 1952 | 2 July 1983 | Three Bridges [new] (T) | |
CA | Automatic signals | ||||||
T | Three Bridges [new] | VTB3 | 29m 28ch | 25 June 1983 | |||
EB | Eastbourne area signals | ||||||
TD | Three Bridges Depot Control Centre | VTB3 | 13 July 2015 | ||||
TL | Three Bridges Rail Operating Centre | London Bridge area signals | VTB3 | 29 December 2014 | |||
TEB | Eastbourne interlocking. Code used from 16 February 2015 | ||||||
TLW | Lewes workstation. Code used from 2 December 2019 | ||||||
TVC | Former Victoria Signalling Centre (Central) signals. Code used by June 2014 | ||||||
TVS | Former Victoria Signalling Centre (South) signals. Code used from 15 March 2015 | ||||||
TWH | Former West Hampstead signals. Code used from 15 March 2015 | ||||||
TC | Three Counties | ECM1 | 35m 51ch | 1898 | 27 June 1976 | Hitchin (HT) | |
C | Code shown in October 1974 weekly notice | ||||||
THS | Three Horse Shoes | EMP | 91m 5ch | 1901 | |||
R | Distant signals some signals had suffix R instead |
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TS | Three Spires Junction | Permanently switched out from September 1998 | CNN | 3m 20ch | 28 June 1914 | 23 February 2003 | Three Spires Junction [new] (TS) |
TS | Three Spires Junction [new] | CNN | 3m 19ch | 23 February 2003 | 26 May 2009 | West Midlands Signalling Centre (CN) | |
T | Thrumpton | Also known as Retford Thrumpton. Code used from 1965 | MAC3 | 64m 46ch | 15 March 1889 inspection date |
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TN | Code used from 23 September 2013 | ||||||
D | Down line automatic signals. Code used from 1965 | ||||||
DB | Down (Cottam) branch line automatic signals. Code used from 1968 | ||||||
U | Up line automatic signals. Code used from 1965 | ||||||
UB | Up (Cottam) branch line automatic signals. Code used from 1968 | ||||||
T | Thurgoland Sidings | MAC2 | 31m 55ch | by 1880 | ≈1959 | Blackmoor Crossing (B) | |
T | Thurlstone Crossing | MAC1 | 27m 3ch | 1899 | 18 July 1981 | Line closed | |
T | Thrybergh Junction | WME | 7m 73ch | 19 February 1909 | 2 August 1980 | Sheffield (S) | |
TJ | Tibshelf East Junction | TCC | 137m 19ch | 2 March 1969 | 11 October 1969 | Trent (TT) | |
Ticehurst Road | See Stonegate | ||||||
T | Tilbury Riverside | TTE | 0m 15ch | 1961 | 8 April 1996 | Line closed | |
T | Tilehurst | MLN1 | 38m 44ch | 1893 | 24 April 1965 | Reading (R) | |
TS | Tile Shed | LEN3 | 93m 64ch | 11 December 1988 | East Boldon (EB) | ||
TE | Tinsley East Junction | Taken out of use through fire damage ≈20 April 1985: reopened 21 June 1985 | WME | 2m 68ch | by 1926 | 6 December 1992 | Woodburn Junction [new] (W) |
MY | Tinsley Main Yard Control Tower | BTJ | ≈160m 10ch | 27 October 1984 | Tinsley Yard (TY) | ||
TP | Tinsley Park | BTJ | 160m 65ch | 29 November 1964 | 20 September 1992 | Tinsley Yard (TY) | |
SY | Tinsley Secondary Yard Control Tower | BTJ | ≈160m 60ch | 27 October 1984 | Tinsley Yard (TY) | ||
TW | Tinsley West Junction | SMC | 2m 54ch | 1922 | 20 February 1998 | Line closed | |
TY | Tinsley Yard | BTJ | 160m 2ch | 11 April 1965 | 19 June 2010 | Woodburn Junction [new] (W) | |
WDB | Tisbury | Code used from 1963 | BAE2 | 96m 0ch | 12 October 1958 | 5 February 1967 | Gillingham [Dorset] (GM) |
WDC | Tisbury Gates | Downgraded to gate box 1923. Code used from 1963 | BAE2 | 97m 12ch | 4 June 1892 | 28 July 1985 | Gillingham [Dorset] (GM) |
TJ | Tiverton Junction | This 'box may have opened in 1874, or that may have been a predecessor | MLN1 TIV |
179m 11ch 179m 11ch |
25 September 1932 | 3 March 1986 | Exeter (E) |
UM | Up line automatic signals | ||||||
T | Tollerton | Codes used from opening | ECM5 | 9m 40ch | 29 January 1961 | 10 December 1989 | York [IECC] (Y) |
D | Down line automatic signals. Slow lines have suffix S | ||||||
DF | Down fast line automatic signals (until 28 July 1985) | ||||||
DS | Down slow line automatic signals (until 28 July 1985) | ||||||
U | Up line automatic and semi-automatic signals (until 28 July 1985). Slow lines have suffix S | ||||||
PE | Tonbridge | XTD and RTT routes transferred to Ashford IECC (AD), control of TTH remains | RTT XTD |
41m 77ch 29m 24ch |
18 March 1962 | 27 September 1993 in part | Ashford IECC (AD) XTD and RTT routes only |
A | Automatic signals | ||||||
TU | Tondu | Formerly named Tondu Middle | BAL | 2m 70ch | 1884 | ||
Tondu Middle | See Tondu | ||||||
Topsham | EMT | 4m 23ch | ≈1870 | 30 January 1988 | Exmouth Junction [new] (EJ) | ||
Torre | TOR | 219m 9ch | April 1921 | 13 November 1986 | Exeter (E) | ||
T | Torside | MAC1 | 15m 31ch | 18 July 1981 | Line closed | ||
TE | Totley Tunnel East | MAS | 154m 62ch | 1893 | |||
T | Totnes | Code in use by 1984 | MLN1 | 222m 63ch | 7 January 1923 | 9 November 1987 | Exeter (E) |
TE | Toton East | THL | 18 October 1969 | Trent (TT) | |||
WDU | Totton | BML2 | 82m 53ch | ≈1875 | 28 February 1982 | Eastleigh [new] (E) | |
Towneley | Gate box: line controlled by Preston (PN) | FHR6 | 22m 62ch | 1878 | |||
TG | Town Green | SJO2 | 9m 79ch | ≈1940 | 10 February 1994 | Merseyrail (ML) | |
TP | Trafford Park Junction | MAJ | ≈31m 66ch | 15 January 1904 inspection date |
Manchester Piccadilly (MP) | ||
TI | Tram Inn | HNL1 | 5m 37ch | 1894 | Wales Rail Operating Centre (NS) (planned) | ||
TJ | Treeton Junction | CHR | 2 October 1982 | Sheffield (S) | |||
TS | Treeton South | CHR | 2 October 1982 | Sheffield (S) | |||
TE | Tremains East | SWM2 | 188m 70ch | 19 April 1955 | 11 September 1965 | Port Talbot (PT) | |
TT | Trent | Building also housed East Midlands Control Centre in 2007/2008 | TSN1 | 120m 1ch | 27 September 1969 | 25 August 2012 in part; 19 July 2013 remainder |
East Midlands Control Centre (MS/NN/RT/TC/ TD/TN/TT) |
T | Trent | ECM1 | 121m 50ch | 6 March 1955 | 25 August 1969 | Newark Crossing (NC) | |
T | Trent Junction | Also known as Frodingham Trent Junction | DOW | 23m 60ch | September 1914 | 31 March 1973 | Scunthorpe (S) |
T | Trimley | FEL | 82m 60ch | 1891 | 17 April 1988 | Trimley [panel] (T) | |
T | Trimley [panel] | FEL | 82m 60ch | 17 April 1988 | 14 March 1999 | Colchester [new] (CO) | |
TG | Tring Shunt Frame | LEC1 | ≈31m 55ch | Bletchley (BY)? | |||
Tring Sidings | LEC1 | 31m 37ch | 1964 | ||||
Trinity Lane | Gate box: line controlled from Liverpool Street [new] (L) | BGK | 13m 22ch | ||||
T | Trowbridge | Code in use by 6 November 1955 | WEY | 105m 49ch | 1896 | 8 September 1968 | Westbury (W) |
TL | Trowell Junction | TCC | ≈125m 9ch | 18 October 1969 | Trent (TT) | ||
TL | Trowse Lower Junction | LTN1 | 113m 67ch | 1910 | 29 November 1986 | Norwich Station (NO) | |
TSB | Trowse Swing Bridge | Earlier code for Norwich station area resignalling. Downgraded to bridge control cabin 29 November 1986 | LTN2 | 123m 46ch | 1898 | 14 February 1986 | Trowse Swing Bridge [new] (TSB) |
TSB | Trowse Swing Bridge [new] | Earlier code | LTN2 | 123m 34ch | 15 February 1986 | ||
TB | Later code (post 2000) for Sheringham line resignalling | ||||||
TU | Trowse Upper Junction | LTN1 | 112m 79ch | 1923? | 21 September 1986 | Trowse Lower Junction (TL) | |
TY | Trowse Yard | LTN2 | 123m 24ch | 1921 | 29 November 1986 | Colchester [new] (CO)? | |
T | Truro | Formerly Truro East to 23 October 1971 | MLN3 | 300m 57ch | 5 March 1899 | ||
Truro East | See Truro | ||||||
TJ | Tuffley Junction | BAG2 | 94m 72ch | 7 December 1941 | 10 August 1968 | Gloucester (G) | |
GC | Tulse Hill | BTH1 | 6m 15ch | 1 July 1945 | 13 April 1969 | Streatham Junction (BC) | |
EBN | Tunbridge Wells Central Goods | Code used from 25 March 1962 | TTH | 33m 45ch | ≈1879 | 15 May 1984 | Tonbridge (PE) |
A | Automatic signals | ||||||
TU | Tunbridge Wells West B | GJB2 | 49m 58ch | 1876 | 12 August 1985 | Line closed | |
U | Turkey Street | Ground Frame | HDT | Liverpool Street [new] (L) | |||
T | Turnhead | HUL1 | 11 June 1967 | Barlby North (BN) | |||
T | Tursdale | ECM5 | ≈59m 0ch | 28 November 1971 | Ferryhill (F) | ||
TY | Tutbury | NSS | 24m 13ch | 1872 | |||
T | Tweedmouth | Code to July 1990 | ECM7 | 65m 78ch | 10 December 1961 | ||
TW | Code used from July 1990 | ||||||
D | Down direction automatic signals (until 1981) | ||||||
R | Repeater signals | ||||||
U | Up direction automatic signals (until 1981) | ||||||
TS | Tweedmouth South | Code presumed | ECM7 | ≈65m 42ch | 10 December 1961 | Tweedmouth (T) | |
D | Down direction automatic signals | ||||||
U | Twenty Feet River | Up direction automatic signals | MSG2 | 26m 53ch | 31 March 1974 | 27 November 1982 | Line closed |
T | Twyford | MLN1 | 31m 7ch | 23 October 1961 | 11 March 1972 | Reading (R) | |
DM | Down main line automatic signals | ||||||
DR | Down relief line automatic signals | ||||||
UM | Up main line automatic signals | ||||||
UR | Up relief line automatic signals | ||||||
TW | Twyford West | Possibly also code T | MLN1 | 31m 8ch | 1893 | 23 October 1961 | Twyford (T) |
TS | Ty Croes | Downgraded to gate box 2 April 1989: line controlled by Valley (VY) | CNH3 | 254m 32ch | 1872 | ||
Tyne | See Tyne Yard | ||||||
T | Tyne Coal Terminal Control Room | Unclear if this is same as Tyne Dock had draw-ahead signals in sidings lettered A to D, with no number |
GLT | ≈1m 15ch | |||
Tyne Dock | Code unknown, but known to have existed by 1968 | December 1967 or possibly 30 May 1981? |
Pelaw (P) Line later transferred to Metro |
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TS | Tynemouth South | TMB | 6m 31ch | 10 August 1980? | Line transferred to Metro | ||
T | Unclear if this is Tynemouth South or plain Tynemouth | ||||||
D | Down line automatic signals | ||||||
T | Tyneside | HLK | 0m 32ch | 15 April 1991 | |||
TY | Tyne Yard | Also known as Tyne. Demolished week ending 6 October 2014 | ECM5 | 75m 62ch | 21 April 1963 | 9 May 1991 | Tyneside (T) |
D | Down line automatic signals | ||||||
R | Banner repeater signals | ||||||
RU | Banner repeater for up line automatic signals | ||||||
U | Up line automatic signals | ||||||
S | Tyne Yard South Shunters GSP | TEY | ≈76m 25ch | ||||
Tyseley Loco Yard | See Tyseley No 1 | ||||||
TY1 | Tyseley No 1 | Formerly named Tyseley Loco Yard | DCL | 126m 40ch | 20 February 1949 | ||
TY2 | Tyseley No 2 | DCL | Tyseley No 1 (TY1)? | ||||
TY3 | Tyseley No 3 | DCL | Tyseley No 1 (TY1)? |