UIC Rolling Stock Numbering

[Dunfanaghy Rd]

Didn't the Germans arrange the Exchange Code to give the same check digit as the original xxx yyy-z style number?
Pat

 

[Dunfanaghy Rd]

Thanks for that.
It's worth noting that some of those code definitions changed over the years. And some of the lower-case letters have different definitions according to which upper case letter they come after, and in which country they're used. I used to have a 1980-era German wagons pocket book that had loads of detail, but I sold it to someone.

All info about locos, carriages and wagons numbering, etc. is on the ERA website. https://www.era.europa.eu/ Click "Registers" and select "ECVVR". What they don't tell anyone is that the genesis for the system lay with the German Greater General Staff after the Franco-Prussian War, so they could plan mobilisation more easily (as in 1914).
Pat

 

[43096]

Didn't the Germans arrange the Exchange Code to give the same check digit as the original xxx yyy-z style number?
Pat

At one point some railways - notably ÖBB who have 4 digit class numbers - were varying the exchange code (first two digits) to give the same check digit for powered stock (locomotives, MUs etc). However the exchange code now identifies the type of powered stock (91 = electric loco, 92 = diesel loco etc) so ÖBB have just dropped the check digit off the short version of the number.

For railways such as DB they may vary the 5th digit to make the check digit for the short number work. So, for example, loco 103 235-8, which you'd expect would have a number such as 91 80 0103 235-x is actually numbered 91 80 6103 235-8 as the '6' gives the same check digit for the short and long numbers.