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BY

Term · Industrial and trades · MLC-T-IND-000888

A British Railways coach code for a brake van with no gangway connections, carried on four wheels. The B stands for brake and the Y suffix for a four-wheeled vehicle, and the six-wheeled equivalent was coded BZ. Such vans carried the guard and luggage or parcels, unlike the gangwayed full brake coded BG.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-IND-000888
FieldIndustrial and trades
SubjectRail equipment
TranslationsGerman: BY; Spanish: BY; French: BY
Record as JSON
{
  "id": "MLC-T-IND-000888",
  "term": "BY",
  "field": "Industrial and trades",
  "definition": "A British Railways coach code for a brake van with no gangway connections, carried on four wheels. The B stands for brake and the Y suffix for a four-wheeled vehicle, and the six-wheeled equivalent was coded BZ. Such vans carried the guard and luggage or parcels, unlike the gangwayed full brake coded BG.",
  "subject": "Rail equipment",
  "translations": {
    "de": "BY",
    "es": "BY",
    "fr": "BY"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/industrial/by/"
}

Record 969 of 7,291 in Industrial and trades terminology (MLC-0113). Request the full dataset.