Re: Coding on Goods Rollingstock.

[Railway Rasputin II <bob@fastlink.com.au>]

M  as in MGFH  = Manildra Group Flour Hopper?

rgds

David Bromage wrote:
> 
> 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