Re: Coding on Goods Rollingstock.

["Rod Gayford" <rjaygee@eisa.net.au>]

All of the rail organisations refer to them as freight trains.  I recall an
article many years ago in the defunct for many years "Railway
Transportation" magazine that the then NSWGR had decided to call goods
trains freight trains as that name more accurately reflected their function
of carrying bulk freight and not a collection of goods from different
consignees mixed up in four wheel "s" or "k" wagons.  Using the terminology
"goods trains"  seems to me to be similar to using such defunct terminology
as wireless instead of radio or  motor car instead of just car as we all
know they have motors these days.  The old farts that write letters to the
NRMA magazine seem to cling to these terms.
Cheers

Rod Gayford

"Railway Rasputin II" <bob@fastlink.com.au> wrote in message
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> Whilst sitting on my cab, solving all the problems of the world, I
> observed a goods train passing (goods train, not freight train as we are
> not in America although you might thinks so some times), I noticed the
> coding of the waggons and I saw one with the letter "E" as the first
> number. Now N being for NSW and V for Vic etc but what does E stand for?
> Or should I say who owns it?
>
> rgds