Talk:UIC classification of locomotive axle arrangements

message: When is a 0 (zero) used instead of lower-case 'o'?  I never see that. —Morven 17:03, Dec 1, 2004 (UTC)
I've seen it in rail road mags and model catalogues. Plus some web sites:
Or Google for  "wheel arrangement"  B0. You get a pretty big list.
Spearhead 19:55, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: December 2004

message: Is the final prime in  B'B'  needed? What about Bo'(A1A), the prime in the middle looks superfluous... Finally shouldn't  1′D1′   be 1'D'1 if the final axle is in a bogie of its own? Railwayfan2005 (talk) 20:43, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: See the clarified description of primes and brackets. In your examples both primes are needed, otherwise the second B and the Bo respectively would be mounted directly on the locomotive body.   — Aldaron • T/C   22:38, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  primes 

message: The UIC also has classification systems for locomotives, passenger coaches and goods wagons. See the articles on UIC identification marking for tractive stock, UIC classification of railway coaches and UIC classification of goods wagons. Shouldn't this therefore be retitled something like UIC classification of locomotive axle arrangements (or shorter still UIC locomotive axle classification) to distinguish it from the others? --Bermicourt (talk) 22:11, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rename article 

message: The Southern Railway once used a different system, but did not other class remain as they were before?    Tabletop (talk) 08:07, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Southern Railway 

message: Perhaps it's good idea to link to an articles about a real locomotives for each example given?--ospalh (talk) 10:37, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Examples 

message: The example for brackets mentions Mallet, but cites the Big Boy, which (if I understand correctly) isn't a Mallet, only an articulated (the distinction being the compound expansion.)  Wouldn't the text more correctly read " Mallet and other articulated locomotives can be indicated..." (emphasis mine.) -- 65.215.221.182 (talk) 21:12, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mallet vs Articulated 

message: This reference is inaccesible 
Sf5xeplus (talk) 00:16, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: References

message: The article states that a lower case 'o' means each axle has its own electric traction motor. While that is definitely the most common situation, the DRB Class 19.10 had a separate steam motor for each axle and got classified as a 1'Do1' in all the literature I could find about it.  So shouldn't it simply read that each axle has its own driving motor, instead of saying that it has to be electric?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.198.53.171 (talk) 20:37, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: You are right (having checked with de.wiki), so I have deleted "electric" before "traction motors". --Bermicourt (talk) 16:49, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use of lower-case o 

message: Why is it marked as a hypothetical example? There was actually such a locomotive class, the Bavarian Gt 2×4/4, which had this axle arrangement and was even classified as a Freight Traffic Locomotive by the Reichsbahn in 1923. Universal-Interessierterde (talk (de)) 23:14, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  D'D h4vt