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Abbreviations for different types of coaches

CC No. 13 of 2007 · 2007-02-20
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Circular numberCC No. 13 of 2007
File numberNo.2021/TG-/20/P/2
Date2007-02-20
TypeCommercial Circular
Topictrain-services
CurrencyHistorical — likely superseded

Summary

Abbreviations for different types of coaches 11.Secretary General, Indian Railways Promotee Officers Federation (IRPOF), Room

Text of the circular

Government of India (4TRT HRON) 
Ministry of Railways T HATCTy 
(Railway Board) TTd ats) 
New Delhi, dated o.02.2021 
No.2021/TG-/20/P/2 
General Managers, 
All Zonal Railways. 
Sub: 
Abbreviations for different types of coaches. 
Please refer to this office letter no. 206/TG-/20/P dated 20.02.2007 (CC No. 13 of 
2007) wherein abbreviations of different types of coaches were circulated to all zonal 
Railways. Subsequently, Anubhuti class coaches were introduced which were given the 
code EA. 
Recently 
a 
new type of coaches known as Vistadome coach have been 
introduced. It has been decided that these coaches may be given the code 'EV. It has also 
been decided that in the computerized PRS also the code for this coach will be 'EV instead 
of TE' as advised earlier vide this office letter of even number dated 15.01.2021. Hence, 
now the abbreviation for different types of coaches will be as under: 
Abbreviation 
H 
Class 
1st AC 
AC 2 tier 
AC 3 tier 
AC Chair Car 
2 S class/Day journey reserved second class coaches of 
IntercityTrains 
Executive Class 
Anubhuti Class 
Vistadome 
First ClasSS 
Garib Rath AC-3 tier 
Garib Rath Chair Car 
Sleeper 
D 
E 
EA 
EV 
F 
G 
2. 
Necessary instructions may be issued to all concerned accordingly. 
(Vinay Srivastava) 
Executive Director 
Neeraj Sharma) 
Executive Director Passenger Marketing 
Railway Board 
Mechanical Engineering (Coaching) 
Railway Board

Copy to: 
1. PCCMs, PCMEs & PCSTEs all Zonal Railways. 
2. MD/IRCTC, B 148,1 lth Floor, Statesman House, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi- 
I10001 
3. MD/CRIS & General Manager/PRS, CRIS, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi. 
4. DG. Professor/Training & Professor/Commercial Railway Staff College. Vadodara. 
5. ED/Tele, EDV(T). EDFC, Railway Board. 
6. The Principals, Zonal Railway Training Institutes, Central Railway/Bhusawal, 
Eastern 
Railway/Bhuli-Dhanbad, 
railway/Muzaffarpur, NF Railway/Alipurduar, Southern Railway/Trichy, South 
Central Railway/Moula Ali, SE Railway/Sini, North Western Railway/Udaipur. 
Northern 
Railway/Chandausi, 
East 
Central 
7. Director, Indian Railway Institute of Transport Management, Hardoi Bypass Road, 
Manak Nagar, Lucknow-2260011. 
8. General Secretary, National Federation of Indian Railwaymen (NFIR), 3, Chelmsford 
Road, New Delhi. 
9. General Secretary, All India Railwaymen Federation ( AIRF), 4, State Entry Road, 
New Delhi. 
10.Secretary General, Federation of Railway Officers Association (FROA), Room 
No.370, Rail Bhawan, New Delhi. 
11.Secretary General, Indian Railways Promotee Officers Federation (IRPOF), Room 
No. 268, Rail Bhawan, New Delhi. 
12.Secretary General, All India RPF Association, Room No. 256-D, Rail Bhawan, New 
Delhi. 
13.CTM, Metro Railway, Metro Rail Bhawan, 33/1, J.L. Nehru Road, Kolkata-71. 
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