| Brand: |
Hobbytrain (by Lemke) |
| Part Number: |
H22200 |
| Scale / Type: |
N Scale |
4tlg. TOUROPA Set 1 DB Ep.IIIb 2xBcm53 / 2xBcm53-60
Product description
Art. H22200
Hobbytrain Touropa Set 1 4 pcs. DB, Ep.IIIb - New
2x Bcm 53 with apron
2x Bcm 53/60 with preferred compartment and apron
Increasing competition from aircraft and road traffic forced the old-established travel companies such as Touropa and Scharnow already in the late fifties to improve their offers. The DB took the first step as the owner of the couchettes at the urging of the Touropa and built in couchette cars of the delivery years 1953 and 1954 four preferred compartments each. In 1963, the first UIC-X couchette cars of the type Bc4üm-62 (later Bcm 243) came on the rails. The new couchette cars had only 10 compartments and a paging compartment.
From 1967 came again new 27.5 m long car with preferential compartments (Bctm 256) added and last time praised on this car, the company name of the major tour operators. After the merger of various travel companies to the TUI (Tourism Union International) in 1969, the lettering disappeared at the beginning of the seventies. Some holiday trains continued until well into the eighties with partly renewed cars of the types Bcm 246 and Bctm 257. |
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