Railway Terminology
Here's some useful acronyms and abbreviations in use on the railway
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Some are more obvious that others :-)
- GF = Ground Frame (manual points)
- HABD = Hot Axle Box Detector
- LC = Level Crossing (optionally with suffix):
AHB = Automatic Half Barrier
AHBC-X = AHB with reverse direction capability
ABCL = Automatic Barrier Crossing, Locally Monitored
FP = Footpath
R/G = minature Red/Green warning lights
R/G-X = Red/Green lights with reverse direction support
UWC = User Worked Crossing - Jn = Junction
- SB = Signal Box
- Station suffixes:
L/End = London End
C/End = Country End