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3-piece set Passenger car Express 234/235 of the FS, Era IV
“Remus” Rome – Vienna
WR “Pistoiesi” ex CIWL, WLABm MU '68 TEN UIC-X '75 2nd class, grey
The night express 234/235 Rome–Vienna, named “Remus”, first appeared in the winter timetable of 1977 as the nighttime counterpart to the daytime “Romulus”, which had already been operating on the same route for several years.
Like most large international express trains of that time, the train consisted of several trainsets and therefore had a changing composition along the route: The main trainset, which started in Rome in the evening, comprised a substantial set of UIC-X day cars and couchette cars, one or two sleeping cars, and a CIWL dining car. Some of these cars were destined for Vienna, others terminated in Venice. In Venezia Mestre, the train composition changed fundamentally, as the daytime carriages and the dining car running to Venezia S.L. were uncoupled and replaced by the night train sections from Venezia S.L. (mostly consisting of Austrian ÖBB carriages) and from Turin. In Udine, a mixed carriage from Trieste was added. Initially, the scheduled locomotives were the E444 for the Rome–Venezia Mestre section and the E646 for the remaining route within Italian territory, but these were soon replaced by the E656. During the first half of the 1980s, the train composition underwent some minor changes, such as the removal of the carriage from Trieste, the restriction of the CIWL dining car to Bologna, and the extension of individual carriages to Tarvisio. In the second half of the decade, the ÖBB section from Venice was discontinued, and the Turin section was shortened to Milan. In the 1990s, the train received FS-UIC-Z1 carriages and ÖBB-RIC couchette cars. In the new millennium, it was integrated into the Euronight network of Trenitalia and ÖBB, renamed "Allegro Tosca" in 2005, and finally merged with the "CityNightLine Lupus," while always retaining the historic train numbers 234/235.
