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Coach numbers in Indian Railway
Know the meaning of these numbers on the train cartridge, know, it will be useful.
The train is the only mode of transportation for traveling from one place in India to another. Everyday about 23 million Indian people travel by train. But many do not know about the train's many sketches. As the train travels in long distance trains are written in the compartment of the train, some unaccountable numbers. Many people do not know the significance of it.
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take a look at the mystery of the number of train cabins. These numbers are written on the coaches of each train in India. These are usually in the form of 4,5 or 6 numbers. The first two digits of which the train was created in that year.
Example 8439 means that the train was built in 1984. In the same way if 04052 numbers are written, then it means that it was built in 2004. But there are many trains that do not adopt this method. Among them are the capital Xpress. Where is written 29951/2
The rest of the digits refer to AC and Sleeper classes in the train. See this list-
001-025 - AC First Class.
025-050 - Composite First AC + AC 2T
050-100: AC 2T
101-150: AC 3T
151-200: AC chair car
2011-400: The Slipper II Class.
401-600: General Second Class.
601-700: Shatabdi Chair Car
701-800: Sitting cam luggage rack.
Also WCR, EF and NF mean that trains are made by Central Railway, Eastern Railway and Northern Railway.
Translated from /news/post/321991