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In the past, each railway adopted its own identification system. Each locomotive was given a road number or running number which would sometimes be combined with a class number . For example British Rail diesel and electric locomotives have five-digit numbers of which the first two digits are the class number and the remaining digits are the ...
Reporting marks on two Canadian Pacific covered hopper cars; with the left car marked as CP 388686 and the right car marked as SOO 115239. A reporting mark is a code used to identify owners or lessees of rolling stock and other equipment used on certain rail transport networks.
British Rail departmental wagons are wagons used by British Rail and their successors Railtrack and Network Rail for departmental purposes. Many vehicles are named after aquatic creatures (including fish , mammals , birds and mythical creatures ), these names started life as telegraphic codes.
Former 'Private Owner' wagons, owned by industrial concerns rather than the railway companies, had a prefix letter "P" but were renumbered into a new series commencing at 3000. Some carriages and wagons built by British Railways to the designs of the 'Big Four' companies were numbered in their series and carried the appropriate letter prefix.
Wagon number, 81 stands for Austria This ITL Hbbillns goods wagon with country code 56 is based in Slovakia Wagon number of an Italian Rgmms flat wagon. Wagon numbers (or coach numbers) are key data for railway operations. They enable a railway wagon or coach to be positively identified and form a common language between railway operators ...
Chiltern Railways: 68: Diesel 100 160 6 Leased from Direct Rail Services [66] Colas Rail: 37/0: Diesel 90 140 8 37/4: 2 37/6: 2 43: 125 200 10 [67] 56: 80 129 10 [68] 66: 75 120 5 [69] 67: 125 200 2 [70] 70: 75 120 17 [71] DB Cargo UK: 60: Diesel 60 97 81 66: 75 120 161 67: 125 200 24 Also 7 locomotives leased to Transport for Wales. [72] 90 ...
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The railway vehicle owner's code formed part of the vehicle number on the side of a railway coach or wagon. Until 2005 it was used to specify the owner of the wagon. However, the owner code did not necessarily reflect ownership of a vehicle but rather who had the right to use it. Since then the owner code has been replaced by the UIC country code.