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Voitures d'exception pour trains de legende 1872-1930 (LR-Presse)

Voitures d'exception pour trains de legende 1872-1930 (LR-Presse)

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In Voitures d’exception por trains de legende 1872-1930 authors Jean-Marc Dupuy and Pierre-Yves Toussirot describe the coaching stock of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits in its first few decades of operation after the company was founded by Georges Nagelmackers.

The authors present a detailed catalogue of the stock, by type and by manufacturer, and describe the services operated. Very well illustrated, including views of some interior fittings.

Contents include:

Sleeping cars Four-wheel sleeping cars (1872-1882) The first bogie sleeping cars (1880-1886) The first wooden bodied sleeping cars 19.74 m sleeping cars Special sleeping cars for Egypt Prototype car No. 1000 Diagram R 20.32 or 20.3 m cars Mixed sleeping cars for Italy The last wooden bodied cars

Restaurant cars Six-wheel restaurant cars Bogie restaurant cars Restaurant cars for Egypt 19.74 m restaurant cars 20.32 m, 20.3 m and 20.4 m restaurant cars The last wooden bodied cars Four-wheel restaurant cars Restaurant cars rebuilt in the 1920s

Saloon cars Club Train saloon cars 19.74 m saloon cars Wooden bodied saloon cars Belgian saloon car Nos. 1501 to 1553 20.3 m saloon cars

Wooden bodied Pullman cars

Brake vans

Second hand CIWL stock

The CIWL Russian coach fleet

French text. More than 600 illustrations. Hardback. 368 pages.