Naming Conventions

Introduction

In developing a resource like this, there are a number of things you need to present in a particular way to aid tasks later on. The main area of concern is naming things in a consistent wayso that searching for them later becomes more reliable. I have therefore adopted the following conventions for naming things.

Sub-class letters

• Where reference is made to a locomotive or wagon class and it has a sub-class letter, the main class letter is uppercase and all sub-class letters are lower case with no space between them.
  • Locomotive - Wab
  • Wagon - Lpa

Class references

• Where an article or reference mentions a Class of locomotive or wagon, the following two forms need to be used, noting the upper and lower case C in the word class and the underscore between the class letter and the word class.
  • Locomotive - Ja_Class
  • Wagon - Kp_class

Specific Locomotive or wagon

• Where an individual locomotive or wagon is mentioned, we need to differentiate between loco's and wagons so we use the following
  • Loco_Ja1274
  • Wagon_Kp2804

Locomotive Names

• Where mention is made of a locomotive's name, e.g. a class name like 'Pacific', 'Columbia' etc or a personal name like "Ivanhoe" or` "Josephine" the following convention should be used
  • 'Columbia' for a class name and
  • "Josephine" for a personal name