Re: Coding on Goods Rollingstock.

["Peter Kilburn" <juneejct@optusnet.com.au>]

Morning

C = CFCLA

Yours,
         Pete Kilburn,
              Junee,

Even if you are on the right track,
                 You' ll get run over if you just sit there,

David Bromage <dbromage@fang.omni.com.au> wrote in message
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> Railway Rasputin II (bob@fastlink.com.au) won a Nobel Prize for literature
by writing:
> > 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?
>
> There was a thread about this a while ago.
>
> A = Australian National, now ASR
> E = Austrac
> N = NSWGR, then SRA, now FreightCorp (and RSA?)
> P = Private owner
> Q = QR (also used on GSPE cars)
> R = National Rail
> S = SCT
> T = TNT
> V = V/Line, then V/Line Freight, then Freight Victoria, now Freight
Australia
> W = Westrail
>
> Cheers
> David