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Railway Enigma
Enigma K used by the German Reichsbahn

During WWII, the Germans used a special Enigma machine for the German Railway (Reichsbahn). It basically was a standard Enigma K with rewired wheels and a rewired UKW. Furthermore, the position of the notches of wheels I and III were swapped.

Railway Enigma Wheel Wiring [1]
 
Wheel ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Notch Turnover #
ETW QWERTZUIOASDFGHJKPYXCVBNML      
I JGDQOXUSCAMIFRVTPNEWKBLZYH V N 1
II NTZPSFBOKMWRCJDIVLAEYUXHGQ M E 1
III JVIUBHTCDYAKEQZPOSGXNRMWFL G Y 1
UKW QYHOGNECVPUZTFDJAXWMKISRBL      

 
References
  1. David Hamer, Geoff Sullivan and Frode Weierud
    Enigma Variations: An Extended Family of Machines

    Cryptologia, July 1998, Volume XXII, Number 3.

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