UIC classification of goods wagons
The type designation of freight cars is an international letter marking, which contains the main technical features of this railway carriage. This marking is valid for all vehicles that are used in international transport.
This identification was already before 1960 developed by the UIC, but generally introduced only valid as of 1964. From 1968 associated members ( railway undertakings, infrastructure managers, railway transport company ) this identification had to be written on all freight wagons of UIC and OSShD. From 1964 to January 1968, the UIC - marking throughout Germany and has been implemented since then continuously developed.
This type designation is generally called UIC genus characters and consist of a "generic letter" ( capitalized) and one or more " letters " (lower case ) together and serve to identify the goods wagons properties, particularly during loading and operation is of importance. The UIC genus character is written below the UIC vehicle number and thus replaced the labels used so far.
Not all European freight wagons with UIC received the mark. For example, in Germany retained the few remaining narrow gauge caboose and freight car to its original generic.
Genus letters
The following table contains the sake of completeness, the uniform international generic letters for coaches (A to D, WL and WR), which will be treated in type designation system for passenger cars. Each wagon is assigned a type number whose first digit is the fifth digit of the 12 digit UIC car number.
Letters
International uniform codes
* 11 In the version valid until 1979 called a bogie wagons, aa was not included for the genera E, F, G, H, T, U, Z. * 12 In the version valid until 1979 here was the load limit of 40 tonnes. * 13 The index letter was not included in the original version from 1966 and was not introduced until later. * 14 In the DR, the definition was initially just " length with m ... ", which as the length over buffers ( LoB ) was understood. Therefore, many cars were initially an incorrect generic name with a missing m. * 15 In the original 1965 version was intended only for the genera m E, G, I, K, O, R. * 16 In the original 1965 version was intended only for the genera mm K, O, R. * 17 The index letter was omitted from 1980, but remained written in part any longer. * 18 The index letter was later introduced as 1980. * 19 By 1979, both cars with metered as well as with sudden gravity discharge were denoted by d.
National identification letters
The code for the property feature was used as a parameter in the wagon number, since 2005, the two-digit UIC country code used. The UIC Country Code the country of origin of a vehicle is determined.