Mk5 Coach Numbers.

[Hattermick]

Has a number range been allocated to the new MK.5 coaches ? Just wondering if they will be 6 numbers as with the new EMU stock,or 5 as with the existing coaching stock.

 

[dubscottie]

Has a number range been allocated to the new MK.5 coaches ? Just wondering if they will be 6 numbers as with the new EMU stock,or 5 as with the existing coaching stock.

I would think they would be numbered in the 10xxx to 35xxx range (with gaps) if they were to follow the coaching stock series.

 

[gimmea50anyday]

Running out of 5 digit numbers. TOPS use most of the number range for type 2 and 3 locos although most of the classes no longer exist and the odd number here and there are in preservation

 

[1179_Clee2]

Has a number range been allocated to the new MK.5 coaches ? Just wondering if they will be 6 numbers as with the new EMU stock,or 5 as with the existing coaching stock.

Platform 5 pocket book 2017 have the following

15001 to 15011 sleeper seated
15101 to 15110 sleeper lounge
15201 to 15214 sleeping car (fully accessible)
15301 to 15340 sleeping car

 

[alexl92]

Does anyone know why coaching stock adn locos are numbered in the same ranges? Sure;y it was asking for confusion?

 

[trash80]

Limitations of the computer systems that TOPS originally ran on perhaps?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

It was more that it's the way it was done before TOPS; in the 1980s there had to be a mass renumbering of about half the DMU cars to avoid conflict with locomotive numbers when the DMU cars were added to TOPS.

I think there is a rule that a number cannot be re-used until seven years after the original item of stock with that number has been scrapped - in practice that would mean since the last of an entire class rather than a single item, so the chances of any re-use of a series will be very low indeed thanks to preservation leaving the possibility of something one day returning to the main line.