Re: NGGF

["Roderick Smith" <rodsmith@werple.net.au>]

The four-letter codes are supposed to be to an Australian standard.
First letter: owning system.
Second letter: body type.
Third letter: variations (eg lots of different hopper types).
Fourth letter: Bogie type.

The second letter should have been H for hopper (covers both open and
closed versions).

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Regards
Roderick Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

C. Dewick <craigd@lios.apana.org.au> wrote in article
<7uk84r$r2m$1@lios.apana.org.au>...
> In <8E64DBF3AtelstraNews@vic.news.telstra.net> Michael Kurkowski
<mk@netstra.com.au> 
> >Does the NSW coding system follow any sort of logic like Victorias does?
> >e.g. where the second letter is: O = open, F = flat, Z = works, H =
hopper 
> >etc.. third letter being type, e.g. a grain hopper would be HG.
> Yes, actually it does mostly. First letter indicates the system that owns
> the vehical ('N' means NSW), the second letter the type of vehicle ('G'
> generally means grain, but also used for sugar), the third letter the
> 'series' of vehicle within this type, and the last letter can mean a
speed
> rating (ie. type of trucks), or departmental use.