A selection of Swiss restaurant cars.
IS THERE A better set of coaching stock in Europe than SBB CFF FFS’ IC 2000 bi-levels, built by Bombardier (ex-Schindler Waggon and Adtranz) from 1996 onwards? This is restaurant car WRB No. 50 85 88-94 007-4 at Spiez, Switzerland, on October 20th, 2006, forming part of a Basel to Interlaken service. Elvetino is the contractor for SBB’s on-board catering.
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The excellent kit maker releases its molten sulfur tank car.
IF YOU CAST your mind back to January, I posted a number of pictures of molten sulfur tank cars, inspired by Rail Yard Models’ announcement that it would be working on a brand new kit for one of these vehicles. These can be found here, here and here.
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A selection of departmental coaching stock.
THE DONCASTER BRML trial/test train is the main subject of today’s update, but a couple of other Q-Coded converted coaching stock for OHLE engineer use are illustrated as well.
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The colourful world of departmental coaching stock.
A NUMBER OF research, track test and breakdown coaches in the Q-Coded TOPS series are the subject for today. Also included is a single A-Coded vehicle, which appears to be the favoured TOPS designation for many new Network Rail test coaches.
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Non-passenger carrying coaching stock is spoken here.
I’VE ALWAYS BEEN a fan of non-passenger carrying coaching stock, yet somehow I’ve allowed the N-Coded section of this site to languish somewhat. With this in mind, here are ten mail train vehicles from the last decade and a bit.
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