Passenger carriage, red, gauge 1 (Bing)

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Passenger carriage, red, gauge 1 (Bing)

Speisewagen und Schlafwagen, Bing 10-538 10-539 (BingCat 1927).jpg (i)
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location:
Arch Three , Area 30
Classic Locomotives (display)
Shelf 3


A red gauge 1 model passenger carriage made in Germany by Bing in the 1920s.

The carriage has orange and gold window frames and a brown roof.

1927 Bing catalogue, passenger carriages


The carriage is unlettered, but in Continental Europe, dark red would tend to signify a carriage belonging to Mitropa, the German offshoot of CIWL.