High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Since the beginning of 2007 all newly authorised railway locomotives or other traction units, at least in Europe, have been given a twelve-digit number. This makes the locomotive or railcar clearly identifiable from an EU-wide list of registered railway vehicles and which follows the UIC Code of Practice 438-3, Identification marking for tractive stock. A complete index number comprises 12 digits. The first two digits form the type code, the third and fourth, as with wagon numbers, the country of origin. Digits 5 to 11 may be freely defined by the country concerned, and the final digit is a check figure. It is followed by abbreviations for the country of origin and the owner of the vehicle. By the deadline of 1 August 2008 all traction units in a fleet had to be registered and marked up with their index number. Existing locomotive numbers used internally were not affected.

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