THE RAILWAY ENGINEERING CO

The British railway is, for a variety of reasons, awash with acronyms and codes of various kinds. This web site sets out to explain some of these related to the infrastructure and to operational issues. Not included in this site are abbreviations of company names or information about trains themselves: this information is available elsewhere and the editor's main interest lies in infrastructure... Taking Aspley Guise as an example, the codes BBM and MD140 apply to the route on which Aspley Guise station sits, and APG, 138000, ASPLEYG, and 62051 (ASPLY GSE) apply to the station itself. All of these codes mean different things, and are used in different ways. This site helps to explain these codes... Lists of all kinds of UK railway infrastructure-related codes: signal box and electrification mast prefixes, engineers' line references, LOR, TIPLOCs, STANOX and more

Also known as: Railway Codes, The Railway Engineering Co Ltd

Primary location: United Kingdom