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REPUBLIC OF IRELAND Initially, Córas Iompair Éireann (CIE) numbered and classified its handful of early diesel locomotives in the same number series as its steam locomotives. However, it soon developed a series based on a series of Types according to engine power, with the highest-powered locomotives being Type A and numbered in the A0xx series, and the lowest powered being Type G and numbered in the G6xx series. Locomotive K801 was a one-off prototype locomotive and did not truly fit in this scheme. Since all the locomotives were in fact numbered in series, the letter prefix to the number was later dropped (in 1972), as was the allocation of numbers according to power. The low-powered locomotives that were rebuilt with higher-powered engines were not renumbered, and newly built locomotives have simply taken the next available number series. Córas Iompair Éireann (1945-1986)
Iarnród Éireann (Since 1987)
NORTHERN IRELAND A variety of small classes of diesel locomotives have operated on railways in Northern Ireland. From 2001, all items of rolling stock in use on NIR had 8000 added to their number so as to be part of the Translink number series, which incorporates their road vehicles. Belfast And County Down Railway (1848-1948) Northern Counties Committee (1903-1948) Northern Ireland Railways (since 1967)
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