Bavarian goods wagon classes

The Royal Bavarian State Railways had, at different times, three different goods wagon classification systems that roughly correspond to the early, middle and late period of the state railway era in Bavaria: In practice Epoch Ic may have extended into the mid-1920s because it would have taken time for practices to change and for wagons to be repainted.

In Bavaria, this may have taken longer than elsewhere, because they were part of the independent 'Bavarian Group Administration', the only one of its kind in the Reichsbahn.

The first numbering system was introduced in 1867 and used capital letters for the various types of goods wagon as follows: Photographs indicate that, initially, not all letters were used in their final meaning, but the system was fully developed by 1877 after the nationalization of the Bavarian Ostbahn.

with a rather square crowned Bavarian coat of arms (white and blue lozenges).

The following table gives the type designations in combination with type description and the number range: Examples of small letters used: Peculiarities of this system were also that double capitals were not only used for 8-wheeled vehicles, but also for 4-wheelers with 20 tons load and more (e.g. OOm(u), a 4-wheel iron coal wagon).

From June 1912 the K Bay Sts B used a new naming and numbering scheme for goods wagons as follows: 1.

All wagons of the former Palatinate Railway (Pfalzbahn - west of the Rhine) were allocated Ludwigshafen 4.

The change of designations and in some cases also numbers was documented in a new edition of the wagon roster book.

Unlike the DRG, the Bavarians used divisional names for generations rather than classes of wagon (however Würzburg was unused): 1.