Southern Railway locomotive headcode route descriptions.

The Southern Railway used locomotive lamps by night and white discs during the day placed on the locomotives lamp irons to show the trains `Head code' or `Route code'. This aided railway staff and no doubt some observant passengers in providing identification of both the type of train and the route it was traveling.

Southern Railway locomotive headcode route descriptions.

Southern Railway Locomotive Headcodes.

Victoria and Dover via Chatham

Loughborough Sidings to Holborn

Ashford and Hastings

Reading and Margate via Redhill

Eastleigh and Bulford via Chandlers Ford and Andover

Southampton Terminus and Brockenhurst and Weymouth via Wimbourne

Weymouth, Portland and Easton

Plymouth Friary and Tavistock

Woking and Reading via Virginia Water West Curve

Exeter Central and Ilfracombe

Bodmin and Wadebridge

Petersfield and Midhurst

Exeter Central and Exmouth

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Southern Railway Locomotive Headcodes.

London Bridge or Bricklayer's Arms and Portsmouth via Quarry line and Horsham

Via Mid Kent line and Beckenham Junction

Ashford and Eastbourne direct

Waterloo or Nine Elms and Southampon Terminus, direct (Not boat trains)

Willesden and Feltham Yard, via Gunnersbury

Waterloo or Nine Elms and Windsor, via Twickenham

Southampton Central to Lymington

Yeovil Junction and Yeovil Town

Seaton Junction and Seaton

Barnstaple Junction and Torrington

Halwill and Bude

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Southern Railway Locomotive Headcodes.

London Bridge or Bricklayer's Arms and Brighton via Quarry line

Tonbridge and Brighton via Eridge

Hastings via Mid Kent line, Oxted, Crowhurst Junction and Tonbridge

Dunton Green and Westerham

Ashford and Margate, via Canterbury West

Lydd branch

Canterbury West and Whitstable Harbour

Sandling Junction and Hythe

Folkestone Junction and Folkestone Harbour

Crowhurst and Bexhill

Swanley Junction and Gravesend West Street

Sittingbourne and Sheerness

Queenborough and Leysdown

Deal and Kearsney

Gravesend Central and Allhallows on Sea or Port Victoria

All seasons to Feltham (Except via Mortlake)

Weymouth and Portland Easton (Goods trains)

Bournemouth West and Brockenhurst via Wimborne

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Southern Railway Locomotive Headcodes.

Victoria or Battersea Yard and Brighton via Redhill

Oxted and Eastbourne via Eridge

London Bridge and New Cross Gate via Bricklayer's Arms Junction

Horsham and Brighton

Brookwood and Bisley Camp

Alton and Fareham

Bentley and Bordon

Salisbury and Bulford

Axminster and Lyme Regis

Tipton St, John's and Exmouth

Wareham and Swanage

Brockenhurst and Lymington Pier

Bere Alston and Callington

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Southern Railway Locomotive Headcodes.

Oxted and Tunbridge Wells West via East Grinstead (H.L.)

Pulborough, Midhurst and Chichester

Havant and Hayling Island

London Bridge and Bricklayer's Arms

Tonbridge and Maidstone West

Ashford (Kent) and Dover via Minster and Deal

Elham Valley line

Stewarts Lane to Victoria

Southampton Docks and Nine Elms, via main line (market goods, fruit or potato train)

Light engines to Nine Elms

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Southern Railway Locomotive Headcodes.

London Bridge or Bricklayer's Arms and Dover or Ramsgate via East Croydon, Oxted and Tonbridge

Tonbridge and Hawkhurst

Battersea Yard and Kensington

Waterloo or Nine Elms and Reading, via Twickenham

Willesden and Feltham Yard, via Kew East Junction

Exeter Central via Sidmouth

Plymouth Friary and Turnchapel

Eastleigh or Southampton and Fawley

Bournemouth Central and Brockenhurst via Wimborne

Torrington and Halwill

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Southern Railway Locomotive Headcodes.

Victoria or Battersea Yard and Portsmouth via Quarry line and Horsham

Via Maidstone East line to Victoria or Holborn

Waterloo or Nine Elms and Southampton Docks, via Brentford, Chertsey and Woking

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Southern Railway Locomotive Headcodes.

London Bridge or Bricklayer's Arms and Eastbourne or Hastings via Quarry line

Victoria or West London line and Ramsgate via Herne Hill or Catford Loop

London Bridge or Bricklayer's Arms and Hastings via Chislehurst and Tunbridge Wells Central

West London line to East Croydon via Crystal Palace (L.L.)

Special boat trains Waterloo and Southampton Docks via Northam

Special boat trains from Southampton Docks to Waterloo via Millbrook

Southampton and Andover via Redbridge

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Southern Railway Locomotive Headcodes.

Victoria or Battersea Yard and Eastbourne or Hastings via Quarry line

London and Hither Green Sidings

Victoria and Folkestone Harbour or Dover Marina via Swanley, Otford and Tonbridge

Waterloo or Nine Elms and Plymouth

Bournemouth Central and Dorchester Goods Trains

Battersea Yard and Brent via New Kew Junction

Southampton Terminus and Portsmouth Harbour via Netley

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Southern Railway Locomotive Headcodes.

London Bridge or Bricklayer's Arms and Portsmouth via Redhill and Horsham

Victoria or Battersea Yard and Norwood Yard via Crystal Palace (L.L.)

London Bridge and New Cross Gate to Eardley Sidings via Peckham Rye

Deptford Wharf and New Cross Gate

London Bridge or Bricklayer's Arms and Folkeston or Dover via Chislehurst, Tonbridge and Ashford

Dover and Margate via Deal and Minster Loop

Special boat trains Waterloo to Southampton Docks via Millbrook

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Southern Railway Locomotive Headcodes.

Victoria or Battersea Yard and Portsmouth via Redhill and Horsham

Via Dartford Loop line

Victoria or Holborn and Hastings Branch via Orpington loop and Tunbridge Wells Central

Bricklayer's Arms and Guildford via Leatherhead and Effingham Junction.

Waterloo or Nine Elms and Southampton Terminus, via Alton

Salisbury and Bournemouth West, via Wimborne

Fareham and Gosport

Ballast trains to Meldon Quarry from Exeter Central and stations west thereof

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Southern Railway Locomotive Headcodes.

Victoria or Battersea Yard and Portsmouth via Mitcham Junction

London Bridge or Bricklayer's Arms and Eastbourne or Hastings via Redhill

Victoria, Stewarts Lane or Holborn to North Kent line via Nunhead line

Nine Elms and Feltham Yard via Mortlake

Exeter Central to Nine Elms (market goods and fish)

Down main line goods trains terminating at Woking

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Southern Railway Locomotive Headcodes.

London Bridge or Bricklayer's Arms and Brighton via Redhill

Oxted and Brighton via East Grinstead (L.L) and Lewes

Three Bridges and Tunbridge Wells West

West London line to Norwood Yard via Thornton Heath

Victoria or Holborn to Dover via Nunhead line and Maidstone East

Parcels and empty trains Waterloo to Clapham Junction (Kensington Sidings)

Feltham Yard and Neasden, via Kew East Junction

Portsmouth Harbour or Portsmouth and Southsea to Fratton Loco Depot

Exeter Central and Exmouth Junction

Bournemouth West to Dorchester

Southampton and Salisbury via Redbridge

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Southern Railway Locomotive Headcodes.

London Bridge and Portsmouth via Mitcham Junction

London Bridge, Oxted and Tunbridge Wells West via Hever

Oxted and Lewes or Seaford or Eastbourne via Haywards Heath and Keymer Junction (Change to No 5 or No 21 code at Lewes)

London Bridge or Bricklayer's Arms and Dover via Chislehurst loop and Maidstone East

Waterloo or Nine Elms and Brockenhurst and Bournemouth West, Via Sway

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Southern Railway Locomotive Headcodes.

Via Bexley Heath line

Victoria, Stewarts Lane or Holborn via Nunhead line and Bexley Heath

Oxted and Brighton via Haywards Heath

Waterloo or Nine Elms and Reading, via loop line

All trains terminating at Portsmouth and Southsea (trains from Salisbury to carry No. 17 to Eastleigh)

Exeter Central and Padstow

Light engines, Bournemouth Central or Bournemouth West to Bournemouth Central, via triangle to turn

Light engines, Eastleigh Loco, to Portsmouth and Southsea

Light engines, to Guildford Loco, via Woking (except via Staines)

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Southern Railway Locomotive Headcodes.

London Bridge or Bricklayer's Arms and Portsmouth via West Croydon

Victoria or Battersea Yard and Eastbourne or Hastings via Redhill

Oxted and Brighton via Eridge

London Bridge or Bricklayer's Arms and Ramsgate via Tonbridge and Canterbury West

Waterloo or Nine Elms and Woking, via Richmond and Chertsey

Milk and empty trains to Clapham Junction, via Byfleet curve and Richmond

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Southern Railway Locomotive Headcodes.

London Bridge or Bricklayer's Arms and Tonbridge or Reading via East Croydon and Redhill (also Tonbridge and Reading)

Brighton and Hove via Preston Park Spur

Three Bridges and Eridge

Victoria or Holborn and Folkstone or Dover via Orpington loop, Tonbridge and Ashford

London Bridge or Bricklayer's Arms and Gillingham, Faversham Ramsgate or Dover via Chislehurst loop and Chatham

Waterloo or Nine Elms and Clapham Junction (empty trains and light engines)

Passenger trains Bournemouth Central and Weymouth

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Southern Railway Locomotive Headcodes.

London Bridge or Bricklayer's Arms and Dover Ramsgate or Hastings via Chislehurst, Swanley, Otford and Sevenoaks

Victoria, Oxted and Tunbridge Wells West via Hever

Holborn and Ramsgate via Herne Hill or Catford Loop

Light engines and trains requiring to run to up main loop Clapham Junction from stations westward

Southampton and Andover via Eastleigh

Light engines or engine with vehicles attached running round the triangle at Bournemouth west to turn

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Southern Railway Locomotive Headcodes.

Victoria or Battersea Yard and Brighton via Quarry line

London Bridge or New Cross Gate and Norwood Yard

Tunbridge Wells West and Eastbourne

Victoria or Holborn and Ramsgate Dover or Hastings via Nunhead line and Tonbridge

Horsham and Guildford

Waterloo or Nine Elms and Southampton Docka via East Putney

Salisbury and Portsmouth Harbour via Eastleigh

Portsmouth and Southsea to Salisbury via Eastleigh

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Southern Railway Locomotive Headcodes.

Victoria, Stewarts Lane or Holborn to Ramsgate via Nunhead line, Chislehurst and Chatham

London Bridge or Bricklayer's Arms and North Kent line via Greenwich

Via Streatham Spur

Feltham Yard and Brent via Kew East Junction

Clapham Junction and Kensington

Portsmouth and Southsea to Salisbury via Redbridge

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Southern Railway Locomotive Headcodes.

Victoria and Newhaven Harbour

Victoria or Holborn to Ramsgate via Nunhead line and Maidstone East

Waterloo or Nine Elms and Portsmouth via Woking and Guildford

Light engines from all stations to Feltham Loco

Light engines from all stations West of Basingstoke to Eastleigh Loco

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Southern Railway Locomotive Headcodes.

Waterloo and Portsmouth Harbour via Eastleigh

Feltham and Brent via Richmond

S.R and W.R. trains Hither Green Sidings, Stewarts Lane or South Lambeth to Old Oak Common

L.M. (Western Division) trains between Willesden and Redhill via Clapham Junction

L.M. (Midland Division) and E.R. (G.N.) trains to or from Hither Green Sidings

W.R. trains, Norwood Yard to Old Oak Common

W.R. trains, Cattewater Junction and Plymstock

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Southern Railway Locomotive Headcodes.

Nine Elms and Willesden via New Kew Junction

Brighton and Salisbury via Southampton Central

Easleigh and Micheldever or Basingstoke (light engines for testing)

Windsor and Hastings Excursion trains

Windsor and Margate or Dover Excursion trains or between Windsor and Redhill

W.R. trains to South Lambeth

E.R. trains to or from Lower Sydnham

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Southern Railway Locomotive Headcodes.

Waterloo and Guildford via Leatherhead (except light engines Nine Elms to Raynes Park)

Southampton and Willesden via Richmond and Gunnersbury

Southampton or Salisbury and Willesden via Chertsey and Kew East Junction (or from Basingstoke)

Reading to Willesden

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Southern Railway Locomotive Headcodes.

Nine Elms and Brent via New Kew Junction

Kensington and Shepperton

Brighton and Salisbury through trains via Eastleigh

Windsor and Bognor Regis Excursion trains

To L.M.R. via West London line

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Southern Railway Locomotive Headcodes.

Brighton and Bournemouth

Waterloo and Wimbledon Park Sidings via East Putney (empty trains and light engines)

Merscham and Staines Moor via Guildford, Byfleet Junction and Staines

Victoria (E. or C.). Stewarts Lane, Clapham Junction or Holborn and Eardley Sidings via Herne Hill

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Southern Railway Locomotive Headcodes.

Hither Green Sidings and Feltham via Brentford

Feltham to Wimbledon West Yard

London Bridge or Bricklayer's Arms and Brighton via Oxted, Eridge and Lewes

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Southern Railway Locomotive Headcodes.

Hither Green Sidings and Feltham via Richmond

London Bridge or Bricklayer's Arms and Brighton via Oxted, East Grinstead and Lewes

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Southern Railway Locomotive Headcodes.

Plumstead and Feltham via Brentford

Victoria or Battersea Yard and Brighton via Oxted, Eridge and Lewes

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Southern Railway Locomotive Headcodes.

Plumstead and Feltham via Richmond

Victoria or Battersea Yard and Brighton via Oxted, East Grinstead and Lewes


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