Re: Difference between CLF & CLP loco's?

["Barry Campbell" <campblbm@ozemail.com.au>]

Rob Kearey wrote in message <394F6BCF.CA8DCC5F@optushome.com.au>...
>Barry Campbell wrote:
>
>> I can't remember if I have posted this before or whether someone else
has.
>> Why would a railway which had so few locos need to do anything other than
>> think of the next combination of letters that came into the Clerk -
>> Locomotive Classification's head.
>
>Wasn't the CK (ne VR T class) named after somebody's children?
>
Well why not anyway. At various times in my career I have been required to
allocate codes to all sorts of things. It is generally advisable to use some
system so that if the number of items gets big you have some way of knowing
what you are talking about but otherwise there is no magic in it.

I suspect that the railway officials who allocate these codes do so without
seeing the significance in them that railfans do. On that basis your kids'
names make a good starting point.

I think the legendary Mal Cody needs to be resurrected here.


Barry Campbell


Of course B for first and F for second are logical.