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[Freddyfiba]

I have recently inherited a large album of lner postcards, they are in some sort of order using numbers et al. This is clearly a code to verify each engine, how do I break the code? Is there a book I can buy

[giner]

Hi Freddyfiba. Welcome to the forum.

Hmm, I'm no Poirot but these 'codes' you mention might be the loco numbers themselves. Lord knows there were enough iterations of numberings - confused many an ECML'er. Anyway, your best bet is to go the home page of this site, click on 'locomotives', and rummage through the listings of all the locos in there and see if anything jives with what you have. Good luck.

[richard]

LNER class designations started with a letter, eg. "A1", "D49" etc - these might be the codes you have. The locomotive pages are arranged by these classes, with each letter grouped together. The letter indicates the wheel arrangement: 'A' for 4-6-2, 'D' for 4-4-0, etc.


Richard

[Freddyfiba]

Excellent thanks for taking the trouble. Would I be right in thinking that some of the trains had their numbers changed for some reason? Does the home page carry a full list of trains? Thanks you have been very helpful.

[52D]

LNER numbering is basically easy to understand but there are some odditys which run out of sequence. I have posted a few notes about it on here before. I will see if i can find it and post the link.
There was a first numbering in 1923 at the grouping then a second renumbering in 1946 which with the addittion of a 6 in front gave you the BR number.

1923-46-48-lner-br-renumbering-schemes- ... +numbering