Abbreviations

Early railways loved long names, the North London Railway started as the East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Railway before seeing sense, so, alas, it is time to learn some abbreviations.

Railway Names
Initial letters, with ampersands and often with the final R omitted, eg, LNW for London & North Western Railway
EWIDBJ	East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Railway
GE	Great Eastern Railway
GN	Great Northern Railway
GW	Great Western Railway
HJR	Hampstead Junction Railway
LNW	London and North Western Railway
LSW	London and South Western Railway
LTS	London Tilbury and Southend Railway
Mid	Midland Railway
NLR	If you have read this far and do not know what it means I suggest that you give up here and now!
NSWJ	North and South West Junction Railway
Other abbreviations which have crept in
ASLEF	Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen
ASRS	Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants
E&OE	Errors and omissions excepted
£ s d	Pre-decimal pounds, shillings and pence. Mostly used separately
LMA	London Metropolitan Archives
Loco	Locomotive
MRC	Modern Records Centre, Warwick University. ARSR and NUR members registers; sources starting MSS
NDCC	Northumberland and Durham Coal Company
NLRHS	NLR Historical Society
NRM	National Railway Museum
NUR	National Union Railwaymen
RCH	Railway Clearing House
RCSSFA	Railway Clearing System Superannuation Fund Association
RTD	Returned to duty, eg, after sick leave
Supt	Superintendent
TNA	The National Archives