Fleischmann 863962 - 2nd class express train coach, FS

2nd class express train coach UIC-X, type Bz, of the Italian State Railways.

New design 2020!

■ Coach with separately applied plug-in parts. Model with true to original buffer height
■ Model in Ardesia grey livery without skirt
■ Art. no. 863961: modified running number

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.