uk.railway FAQ |
These codes are the Railtrack timetable codes. These codes may be used in the newsgroup to save typing out the full name of the company.
The freight companies codes and others marked * are included here to provide a full set of codes - but they are unofficial codes (mainly based on those used by Platform 5).
Code |
Company |
Alternative code(s) |
| AR | Anglia Railways | |
| CH | Chiltern Railways | |
| CT | Central Trains | |
| CX | Connex | CSC, CSE, SC, SE |
| DR * | Direct Rail Services | DRS |
| EP | Eurostar (UK) | E*, ES, EPS |
| ET * | Eurotunnel | |
| EW * | English Welsh & Scottish Railway | EWS |
| FL * | Freightliners | |
| GE | First Great Eastern | GER |
| GR | Great North Eastern Railway | GNER |
| GW | First Great Western | GWT |
| GX | Gatwick Express | |
| HX | Heathrow Express | |
| IL | Island Line | |
| LS | LTS Rail | LTS |
| LT | London Transport | LU, LUL |
| MD * | Mendip Rail | |
| ME | Merseyrail Electrics | |
| ML | Midland Mainline | MML |
| NP * | National Power | |
| NS | Northern Spirit | |
| NW | First Western Trains | NWT |
| RT | Railtrack | |
| SR | ScotRail | |
| SS | Silverlink | |
| SW | South West Trains | SWT |
| TL | Thameslink Rail | |
| TT | Thames Trains | |
| VL | Cardiff Railway (Valley Lines) | |
| VT | Virgin Trains | VXC, VWC, XC, WC |
| WN | West Anglia Great Northern | WAGN |
| WR | West Coast Railway Co. | WCRC |
| WW | Wales and West Railway |