Class district


Class districts were a classification system for railway goods wagons used by the Deutsche Reichsbahn in Germany between the wars.
After the Deutsche Reichsbahn had been founded in 1920, in 1921 all goods wagons types with the same or similar roles were grouped into so-called class districts. These were named after cities that were the headquarters of a Reichsbahn division or, later, other cities too. Work on re-lettering and renaming the wagons began in 1922 and was largely completed by 1924.
Class districtsCategory lettersWagon typeClassPeriod
Altona, later HamburgVLivestock vanS, V, A, W1922–1937
AugsburgSTwo and three-axled rail wagonsS, V, A, W1922–1945
BerlinGkRefrigerator vansS, V, A, W1922–1945
BreslauOmOpen wagonsS, V, A, W1922–1945
DresdenG und GGLarge-volume vansS, V, A, W1922–1945
Elberfeld, later WuppertalKLidded wagonsS, V, A1922–1930
ErfurtXOpen departmental wagonsS, V, A, W1922–1945
EssenOmOpen wagonsV, W1922–1945
Kassel GCovered wagonsV, A1922–1945
KölnSSRail wagons with four or more axles S, V, A, W1922–1945
MünchenGCovered wagonsVerbandsbauart1922–1945
NürnbergOOpen wagonsVerbandsbauart1922–1945
RegensburgHCradle wagonsS, V, A1922–1945
StuttgartRStake wagonsS, V, A, W1922–1945

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