LU station abbreviation codes

Does anyone know where I can get a list of the three-letter station
codes that LU uses to refer to stations? I don't know what the system
is called but I know each station has a code.

All help gratefully accepted.


Matt

Offically IIRC only the Central line and W&C has fixed codes and the system
is:
the first three letters of a single word,
the first two of the first word and the first of the second for two word
station name
the first letter of each for three word the only one being TCR.
The exceptions are Redbridge which should be RED which whould be confusing
so they consider it two word so it's REB and Leytonstone LES the same rule
is applied so so not be confused with Leyton (LEY).
I think Bank is labled twice BAN for Central line and BNK for W&C its so the
ATO software which was never put in would not get confused.
Andy

"Matt Ashby" <mpjashby@> wrote in message
news:1138643796.991760.6670@f14g2000cwb. ps.com...
> Does anyone know where I can get a list of the three-letter station
> codes that LU uses to refer to stations? I don't know what the system
> is called but I know each station has a code.
>
> All help gratefully accepted.
>
>
> Matt
>

Andy wrote:

> Offically IIRC only the Central line and W&C has
> fixed codes

Thanks for the information. I was told by a Station
Assistant at Hounslow West the other day that that
station has the code HNW. Does anyone know of
any codes for lines of than the Central and W&C?


Matt

In message <1138655530.245202.116440@g44g2000cwa. .com>, Matt
Ashby <mpjashby@> writes
>Andy wrote:
>
>> Offically IIRC only the Central line and W&C has
>> fixed codes
>
>Thanks for the information. I was told by a Station
>Assistant at Hounslow West the other day that that
>station has the code HNW. Does anyone know of
>any codes for lines of than the Central and W&C?

We use the following codes on the Piccadilly (Arnos), although am aware
that Acton use some different ones and I've no idea if these are
definitive:

CFS - Cockfosters
OAK - Oakwood
AGR - Arnos Grove
WGN - Wood Green
GPK - Green Park
HPC - Hyde Park Corner
ACT - Acton Town
NFD - Northfields
HRC - Heathrow 123 (ex-Heathrow Central!) (Acton just call it 123)
SHR - South Harrow
RLN - Rayners Lane
RUI - Ruislip
UXB - Uxbridge

I've also seen HAM being used for Hammersmith but it's not one of our
booked reverses.

I'm sure somebody (Steve D?) might have a more comprehensive list tucked
away.
--
Steve Fitzgerald has now left the building.
You will find him in London's Docklands, E16, UK
(please use the reply to address for email)

Andy wrote:
> Offically IIRC only the Central line and W&C has fixed codes and
> the system is:
> the first three letters of a single word,
> the first two of the first word and the first of the second for two
> word station name
> the first letter of each for three word the only one being TCR.
> The exceptions are Redbridge which should be RED which whould be
> confusing so they consider it two word so it's REB

What other station on LU could RED be confused with?
--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

"Richard J." <rjnews@blueukder.co.yon> wrote in message
news:JKvDf.12212$wl.1833@text.news.blueyonder.co.u k...
> Andy wrote:
>> Offically IIRC only the Central line and W&C has fixed codes and
>> the system is:
>> the first three letters of a single word,
>> the first two of the first word and the first of the second for two
>> word station name
>> the first letter of each for three word the only one being TCR.
>> The exceptions are Redbridge which should be RED which whould be
>> confusing so they consider it two word so it's REB
>
> What other station on LU could RED be confused with?
> --
> Richard J.
> (to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

"I'm at a green signal at Red" it could get quite confusing over a radio so
it not used for that reason.

On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 22:51:43 -0000, "Andy" <auga33@dsl.pipex.com>
wrote:

>
>"Richard J." <rjnews@blueukder.co.yon> wrote in message
>news:JKvDf.12212$wl.1833@text.news.blueyonder.co. uk...
>> Andy wrote:
>>> Offically IIRC only the Central line and W&C has fixed codes and
>>> the system is:
>>> the first three letters of a single word,
>>> the first two of the first word and the first of the second for two
>>> word station name
>>> the first letter of each for three word the only one being TCR.
>>> The exceptions are Redbridge which should be RED which whould be
>>> confusing so they consider it two word so it's REB
>>
>> What other station on LU could RED be confused with?
>> --
>> Richard J.
>> (to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)
>
>"I'm at a green signal at Red" it could get quite confusing over a radio so
>it not used for that reason.

I seem to remember seeing reference to Redbridge as Red Bridge.
Memory's a little fuzzy though.

--
James Farrar
. @

Correct. There are some exceptions though.

The Tooting's on the Northern are TBY and TBC are two that I can think of.

They were 'invented' by a bright spark from the Chief Engineer's Directorate
with some, but not much thought.

As the head of equality was a right battleaxe I never had the nerve to tell
about them, particularly Woodside Park and Wood Green.


"Andy" <auga33@dsl.pipex.com> wrote in message
news:Tvednbw2AebBw0PeRVnysw@pipex.net...
> Offically IIRC only the Central line and W&C has fixed codes and the
system
> is:
> the first three letters of a single word,
> the first two of the first word and the first of the second for two word
> station name
> the first letter of each for three word the only one being TCR.
> The exceptions are Redbridge which should be RED which whould be confusing
> so they consider it two word so it's REB and Leytonstone LES the same rule
> is applied so so not be confused with Leyton (LEY).
> I think Bank is labled twice BAN for Central line and BNK for W&C its so
the
> ATO software which was never put in would not get confused.
> Andy
>
> "Matt Ashby" <mpjashby@> wrote in message
> news:1138643796.991760.6670@f14g2000cwb. ps.com...
> > Does anyone know where I can get a list of the three-letter station
> > codes that LU uses to refer to stations? I don't know what the system
> > is called but I know each station has a code.
> >
> > All help gratefully accepted.
> >
> >
> > Matt
> >
>
>

"Richard J." <rjn...@blueukder.co.yon> wrote in message


news:JKvDf.12212$wl.1833@text.news.blueyonder.co.u k...

> "I'm at a green signal at Red" it could get quite confusing over a radio so
> it not used for that reason.

But "REB" is unlikely to sound much different to "red" over a two-way
radio either. Whatever happened to the phonetic alphabet? If they used
that the message you suggest would become "I'm at a green signal at
Romeo Echo Delta"; a far more comprehensible piece of communication!

Acrosticus wrote:
> "Richard J." <rjn...@blueukder.co.yon> wrote in message
>
> news:JKvDf.12212$wl.1833@text.news.blueyonder.co.u k...
>
>> "I'm at a green signal at Red" it could get quite confusing over a
>> radio so it not used for that reason.

Actually it was Andy who wrote that.

> But "REB" is unlikely to sound much different to "red" over a
> two-way radio either. Whatever happened to the phonetic alphabet?
> If they used that the message you suggest would become "I'm at a
> green signal at Romeo Echo Delta"; a far more comprehensible piece
> of communication!

Very true! But are these codes used in radio messages? If so, why are
Northfields and Arnos Grove drivers allowed to use different codes?
--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)