Original page created on 13/11/2017; updated on 13/02/2023.
Brand - Reference
LS Models 41071
Type
Type P sleeping car (Pillepich)
| UIC number | ex-CIWL | Rev. date |
| 61 87 75-30 740-7 | 4550 | 10.7.80 |
| Home: 5 Villeneuve Prairie | ||
Weight
159 g; 130 g after removing the ballast (NEM: 110 to 143 g).
Comments
Excellent respect of the scale.
The roof and the body are one part.
The bogies are equipped with brass bearings and have fine-flange wheels (0.55 mm). A bag includes larger flange wheel sets if needed. Few parts are to be assembled: jumpers, half brake hoses, (dummy) screw couplings.
The plastic material of buffers, bogies and gangways is translucent and need to be painted.
Coach a little too heavy.
See :
- Forum Loco-Revue.
- gamos81.altervista.org for the reference list of issued P sleeping car models.
Modifications
- Ballast (29 g) removed.
- Bogies painted in Interfer slate gray; wheels painted in Humbrol Enamel 113 (rust) and 224 (slate gray) blending.
History
Characteristics: 20 first-class seats in nested compartments. Stainless steel body. Schlieren bogies. Tare 44 t. Speed limit 140 km/h.
Originally equipped with bellows, they were, probably in the early 1970s, equipped with UIC rubber joints on prominent box.
Example of incorporation, according to Pierre B. on the Loco-Revue forum: train 197/152 Paris ↔ Warsaw (P sleeping car Paris ↔ Dortmund) in 1959. But unfortunately no compositions on the Nord in the 1970s.
Documents
- Loco-Revue sheet No. 20-21 / 64 b 2 (former series)
- Le Train No. 203 of March 2005
- Wikipedia article
- eurocity64 website.
- German website Wagons-Lits
- scalaenne website (in Italian).
- LS Models instruction leaflet.
Photo Tobias B. Köhler on railfaneurope.
| Dimension | Actual | 1:87 | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall length | 24 000 | 275.9 | 276.0 |
| Body length 1 | 23 164 | 266.3 | 265.3 |
| Chassis length | 22 748 | 261.5 | 261.7 |
| Width | 2 865 | 32.9 | 33.7 |
| Height | 4 253 | 48.9 | 48.5 |
| Pivot distance | 16 500 | 189.7 | 189.7 |
| Bogie wheelbase | 2 500 | 28.7 | 28.6 |
| Wheel diameter | 1 000 | 11.5 | 11.6 |
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Interior design (CIWL leaflet).
Series of 80 sleeping cars No. CIWL 4501 to 4580, built under Budd licence in Belgium by Ateliers Métallurgiques in Nivelles (4501 to 4525), in France by Carel & Fouché (4526 to 4550), in Italy by Ansaldo and Fiat, put in service from 1955 to 1956. Type P refers to their designer, Albert Pillepich, chief engineer of CIWL’s technical services (sources: CIWL).