Product Features and Details
Model: 2nd class express train coach UIC-X of the Italian State Railways. Epoch IV. New design 2020 ! Coach with separately applied plug-in parts. Model with true to original buffer height. Model in Ardesia grey livery without skirt. Model with true to original livery and lettering. Coach with interior design ready equipped to install interior lighting. Coupler pocket according to NEM 355 standards and close coupler motion link. The coach has a different running number than item 863961.
More than 6.145 express train passenger coaches of the DDB are designated UIC X-coaches. The coaches were put into operation from 1952 on. Some of them were used in D trains for half a century and operated in the Intercity traffic. These coaches offered an unmatched comfort never seen in Europe before. The UIC-X coaches immediately entered the high-quality express train service and were mainly used for foreign services and the transit and inter-zone transportation to West Berlin. These coaches quickly became standard in the GDR. Very soon, the existing F-train network with its until 1956 first and second class service (but later only the first class service), was supplied with UIC coaches. By the mid-1960s, all pre-war coaches which still operated in the express train traffic were replaced by UIC coaches. The coaches which the Italian State Railways Ferrovie dello Stato italiano(FS) - today Trenitalia and the Spanish State Railways RENFE - bought at that time, were very similiar to the coaches of the DB.
