User:AlisonW/Rail legend

This version uses CSS to suppress those icons which do not exist, but therefore displays *all* icons which do exist in each series; there are up to 33 icons in each series.

Add the following to your monobook.css user subpage:

/*
  Begin CSS from User:AlisonW/Rail Icons.
  This CSS hides the ugly text links to the file
  description pages of nonexistent rail icons.
*/

.check-icon a.new {
   display: none; 
   speak: none;
}

/*
  End CSS from User:AlisonW/Rail Icons.
*/

It helps a lot to use this table on a wide-screen display!

Legend

Note that the number of metals (tracks) is not normally signified in the graphic.

dark colour means a currently open line / facility

light colour means either a closed line / route / facility or one under construction / planned

red colour indicates heavy rail or freight line

blue colour indicates light rail, metro or tram line

Prefix:

t means 'tunnel'

u means 'unter'/'underground', eg metro and light rail

v indicates close parallel lines

m (DE:Mischbetrieb mit U-Bahn) indicates that the icon contains both heavy and light rail in the same pictogram

d and ed (for DE:dünne) are half-width symbols, used in pairs and not shown on this page.

Full list of prefixes in table below

Suffix:

l normally means to left / links / gauche

r normally means to right / rechts / droit

a normally means at start / anfang / debut

e normally means at end / ende / fin

f normally means forward (down) / fahrtrichtung

g normally means backward (up) or straight / gegenrichtung oder geradeaus

o normally means over / oben

u normally means under / unten

other codes are built up from joining these together

Prefix	Example		Line	Type	Feature	Tunnel	Note
(none)			Open	Heavy	Open
xp			Open	Heavy	Open		Express service; doesn't stop here
x			Part open	Heavy	Open		will have suffix to show which part
e			Open	Heavy	Closed
ex			Closed	Heavy	Closed
t			Open	Heavy	Open	Tunnel
et			Open	Heavy	Closed	Tunnel
ext			Closed	Heavy	Closed	Tunnel
v			Open	Paired	Open
ev			Open	Paired	Closed
xv			Closed & Open	Paired	Open
exv			Closed	Paired	Closed
u			Open	Metro	Open
ux			Part Open	Metro	Open		will have suffix to show which part
ue			Open	Metro	Closed		includes some 'uex' mis-codes
uex			Closed	Metro	Closed		Some 'uex' mis-coded as 'ue'
ut			Open	Metro	Open	Tunnel
uet			Open	Metro	Closed	Tunnel
uxt			Closed	Metro	Open	Tunnel	Through route closed, side route open
uext			Closed	Metro	Closed	Tunnel
m			Open(H) & Open(L)	Both	–		Mischbetrieb mit U-Bahn
xm			Close(H) & Open(L)	Both	–
em			Open(H) & Close(L)	Both	–
exm			Close(H) & Close(L)	Both	–
um			Open(H) & Open(L)	Both	–		Mischbetrieb mit U-Bahn
uxm			Open(H) & Close(L)	Both	–
uem			Close(H) & Open(L)	Both	–
uexm			Close(H) & Close(L)	Both	–

Special IDs which have a partial code as part of the base ID are highlighted