This is designed to give you a description of the many abbreviations I use within the document. Most    are used frequently in other sources, others are generally easy to work out, others a bit trickier.

 

Notes - There are several items in this field in a bid to try and include as much information as possible for each record.......If I've missed any please let me know.

 

 

AL - Alstom Ltd

AR - Anglia (Old)

B - Blue

BB - Balfour Beatty

BC - Blood/Custard

BG - Blue/Grey

BN - Brown

bn/k - Brown/Black

BX - Bauxite

B/B - Blue (2 Shades)

B/G - Blue/Green

B/K - Blue/Black

B/R - Blue/Red

B/W - Blue/White

b/w - Bare Wood

B/Y - Blue/Yellow

Car - Carrilion

CD - Cotswold Rail

CE - Civil Engineer

CFD - French Operator

CH -Chocolate/Cream

Crm - Crimson

CX - Connex

DB - Dark Blue

DG - Dark Green

DR - DRS Ltd

E - EWS (DB Schenker)

F - Old Railfreight Grey

FP - First GWR (Old)

FW - First GWR (New)

G - Green

GB - GB Railfreight

GC - Green/Cream

GG - Green 2 (Shades)

GN - GNER

GR - Grey

G/B - Green/Blue

G/BN - Green/Brown

G/K - Green/Black

G/R - Green/Red

G/Y - Green/Yellow

GR/G - Grey/Green

GR/R - Grey/Red

GR/Y - Grey/Yellow

HN - Harry Needle

I - Intercity

JF - Jaffa Cake (Old)

K - Black

K/R - Black/Red

K/W - Black/White

K/Y - Black/Yellow

LB - Light Blue

LG - Light Green

LH - Loadhaul (Old)

LNWR - (Official)

M - Maroon

SC - Scotrail (Old)

Si - Silver

SL - Silverlink

Si/R - Silver/Red

TK - Teak

TN - Tan

TQ - Turquoise

t/bn - Tan/Brown

u/c - Undercoat

V - Virgin Trains

VN - VSOE North

W - White

WY - West York. PTE

W/B - White/Blue

W/G - White/Green

W/K - White/Black

W/R - White/Red

W/Y - White/Yellow

Y - Yellow

Y/B - Yellow/Blue

Y/G - Yellow/Green

Y/GR - Yellow/Grey

Y/K - Yellow Black

Y/R - Yellow/Red

Y/Si - Yellow/Silver

Y/W - Yellow/White

Builders - Only the abbreviated builders are listed here. Several on the document are complete. Where a Loco & Rolling Stock were built at the same location the builder is listed as the same, although in most cases this would have been a different part of the works or a different address altogether........   

ACF - American Carriage Finance

AEC - Associated Equipment

AEG - Allgemeine, Germany

AFB - Anglo Franco Belge

Alco - American Locomotive

AP - Aveling & Porter

APH - Arthur P Heywood

ASW - Allied Steel & Wire

AW - WG Armstrong & Whitworth

B&S - Bellis & Seekings

BBC - AG Brown Boveri & Cie

BBT - Brush Bagnall Traction

BC - Peter Brotherhood Engineers

BD - Baguley Drewry

BE - Brush Electrical Engineering

BEV - British Electric Vehicles

BGB - Becorit Mining Ltd

BH - Black Hawthorn & Co

BLW - Baldwin Locomotive Works

BM - Brown Marshall

BMR - Brecon Mountain Railway

BP - Beyer Peacock

BRCW - Birmingham Railway C&W

BRI - Bolton Wagon & Iron

Bsm - Baume St Marpent

BT - Brush Electrical Machines

BTH - British Thomson Houston

BVR - Bure Valley Railway 

BWC - Bristol Wagon & Coach

BWLR - Bredgar & Wormshill Rlwy

Cari - Carron Ironworks

Carw - Carrick Wardale

CCLR - Cleethorpes Coast Rlwy

CDF - Cardiff West Yard Loco Wks

CGT - Compagnie Generale

Chr - Charles Roberts

ChrP - Charles Philips

Chrz - Fabryka, Chrzanow

Clc - Clarke Chapman

CM - Century Millwrights

CS - Cowans Sheldon

CW - Cowlishaw Walker Eng.

Cwc - Central Wagon Co

Dcw - Derbyshire C & W

DM - Davis & Metcalfe Ltd

Drth - Dorothea Restorations

Ebv - Ebbw Vale Iron & Steel Co

EE - English Electric, London 

EEDK - English Electric, Preston

EES - English Electric, ex RSHN Works

EEV - English Electric, ex VF Works

Electro - Electroputere, Romania

ELSR - Eastleigh Lakeside Steam Rly

ESR - Exmoor Steam Railway

ESSE - ????

 

 

EVM - Elham Valley Museum

EVRA - Ecclesbourne Valley Rlwy

Fair - Fairfield Ship & Engineering

FairB - Fairbourne Railway

Fbe - Fairfield Bridge & Engineering

FE - Falcon Engine Works

FFP - Fire Fly Project, Bristol/Didcot

FH - Frank Hibberd

FJ - Fletcher Jennings

Flor - Wiener-Floridsorf, Austria

FR - Foster Rastrick

FRCo - Ffestiniog Railway Co

Fsb - Fairfield Ship Building

G&S - G & S Light Engineering

GDT - Gateshead & District Tram

GB - Greenwood & Batley

GE - George England & Co

GEC - General Electric Co

Glc - Gas Light & Coke Co

GM - General Motors

GMT - Gyro Mining Transport

GNS - Great Northern Steam Co

GR - Grant Ritchie & Co

GRCW - Gloucester Railway C & W

Grl - George Russel & Crow Ltd

GS - George Stephenson

H - James & Fredk Howard Ltd

H&C - Harrison & Cam

HartBSC - Hartlepool Works (BSC)

HB - Hudswell Badger

HC - Hudswell Clarke & Co

HL - R & W Hawthorn Leslie Co

HLH - Hunslet Loco Hire Ltd

HLT - Hughes Loco & Tramway

HPET - H.P.E. Tredegar

HRCM - Hungarian RCM

HT - Hunslet Taylor Consolidate

HU - Robert Hudson Ltd

HW - Head Wrightson

KC - Kent Construction Ltd

Kit - Kittybrewster

LancTan - Lancaster Training Co

LaunSR - Launceston Steam Rlwy

LB - Lister Blackstone

LBNGR - Leighton Buzzard Rlwy

LMM - Logan Mining & Machinery

LocoEnt - Locomotion Enterprises

MF - Marshall Flemming

MGR - Minimum Gauge Railways

MSI - Manchester Science & Ind

MV - Metropolitan Vickers

MVR - Moors Valley Railway

MW - Manning Wardle

Mwg - M&W Grazebrook

NB (H)(Q) - North British

NDL - North Dorset Loco Works

Liveries - A short field limited to 4 characters. The first colour is the prominent one.......

 

a/r - Awaiting Restoration

b/o - Body Only

conv - Converted

dsm - Dismantled

f/o - Frame Only

Gov - Government

h/s - Head Shunt

I/d - Identity

I/u - Internal User

m/l - Mainline

mono - Mono-rail

 

 

m/v - Mess Van

op - Operational

opf - Operated For

opb - Operated By

PBA - Port of Bristol

p/o - Placed On

Poss - Possibly

r/b - Rebuilt

s/d - Static Display

shtd - Sheeted

std - Stored

 

s/o - Steam Outline

s/v - Stores Van

s/w - Stores Wagon

u/c - Under Construction

u/f - Underframe

u/f/o - Underframe Only

Un - Unnumbered

u/r - Under Restoration/Repair

v/a - Volunteer Accomodation 

 

NMW - National Museum of Wales

NW - Naswith Wilson & Co

OK - Orrenstein & Koppel

Ope - Old Park Engineering

P&T - Plasser & Theurer

PGR - Perrygrove Railway

Pod - Powell Duffryn

PS - Pressed Steel

Pwm - P&W McLellam

PWP - Paradise Wildlife Park

RFSD - RFS Doncaster

RFSK - RFS Kilnhurst

RH - Ruston & Hornsby

RHDR - Romney Hythe Dymchurch

RP - Ruston Proctor & Co

RS - Robert Stephenson

RSHD - Robert Stepenson Hawthorn,

Darlington

RSHN - Robert Stepenson Hawthorn, Newcastle

RSM - Royal Scottish Museum

RT&Co - Richard Thomas & Co

S&B - Sara & Burgess

S&P - Stothert & Pitt

S&R - Smith & Rodley

SDICo - South Durham Steel

SET - Stored Energy Tech, Derby

SFR - Sherwood Forest Rlwy

SGLR - Steeple Grange Light Rlwy

SLM - Schweizerische, Switzerland

SMP - Shepperton Metal Products

SMR - Southern Miniature Rlwys

SolH - Solinger Hutte

SSC - Sylvester Steel, Canada

Stw - Standars Wagon

Suw - Salt Union, Winsford

SVR - Severn Valley Rlwy

T&H - Taylor & Hubbard

TKL - Todd Kitson & Laird

TS&S - Track Supplies & Services

VE - Vicktor Electrics

VER - Volks Electric Railway

VIW - Vulcan Iron Works, USA

VF - Vulcan Foundry

Wbl - Whittaker Brothers Ltd

WCI - Wigan Coal & Iron Co

Whc - Watts Hardy & Co

WHRC - Welsh Highland Caernarvon

WHRP - Welsh Highland Porthmadoc

WLLR - Welshpool & Llanfair Rlwy

WR - Wingrove & Rogers

WVDH - W Van Der Heidon

YE - Yorkshire Engine Co

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