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In September 2011, the UK Rail Safety and Standards Board issued Railway Group Standard GM/RT2453, [4] which made some alterations to the TOPS classes allocated to various types of locomotive and multiple unit - primarily extending the number ranges for certain types of locomotives and multiple units where the previous allocation ranges were ...
A "D" prefix in front of the regional prefix indicated departmental (non-revenue earning) stock. Departmental stock (including locomotives ) inherited from the Southern Railway carried numbers with an "S" suffix (indicating S ervice stock, an alternative term for departmental) which was deleted and replaced with the "DS" prefix.
DRGX - Denver and Royal Gorge Railway; DRHY - Durham Transport; DRI - Davenport, Rock Island and North Western Railway; DRIR - Denver Rock Island Railroad; DRMX - Danbury Railway Museum; DRR - Delaware and Raritan River Railroad; DRR - Disneyland Railroad; DRRV - Dover and Rockaway River Railroad; DRSX - D.O.T. Rail Services, Inc. DRTU - Dart ...
This article lists the wide variety of locomotives and multiple units that have operated on Great Britain's railway network, since Nationalisation in 1948. British Rail used several numbering schemes for classifying its steam locomotive types and other rolling stock, before settling on the TOPS computer system in the late 1960s. TOPS has ...
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.
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 ...
They enable a railway wagon or coach to be positively identified and form a common language between railway operators, infrastructure companies and the state authorities. The system of wagon numbering has been laid down by the International Union of Railways ( Union internationale des chemins de fer or UIC , founded in 1922) and is similar to ...
The RSSB operates as a not-for-profit entity, its primary purpose being to bring about improved health and safety performance throughout Britain's railway network. In the fulfilment of this purpose, the Board undertakes numerous safety-focused monitoring and continuous improvement programmes, such as the railway supplier quality assurance ...