Original page created on 01/07/2011.
Jouef HJ4055
Type T2 sleeping car
UIC number | Revision date |
61 87 75-71 155-8 | 12.12.77 |
206 g; 155 g after removing the ballast (NEM: 121 to 158 g).
Too high of about 1 mm. The NEM boxes are removable and have two different possible positions. Spring buffers. Underframe much more detailed than the Jouef MU.
Warning: this car does not disassemble conventionally: after (easily) unclipped the roof, don’t try to spread the sides of the body by inserting plastic cards, because a false inner frame moulded with the body prevents that. Simply remove the end clips from the inside using a screwdriver, then pull the chassis.
See:
The T2 sleeping cars appeared at the CIWL in 1968 (No. 5001 to 20). In 1973, the SNCF ordered another 82 units, air-conditioned, numbered in the series 61 87 75-71 121 to 208, whose Jouef model is part.
The T2 (= Tourism 2-berth) sleeping cars are characterized by the possibility for 2nd class customers to travel by two in a compartment.
The arrangement combines two nested compartments: the upper one, accessible by a few steps, includes a bench and two berths under the roof; the lower one has a bench convertible into bunk berths, like in the couchette cars. This explains the unusual arrangement of windows, compartment side.
See the drawing from La Vie du Rail No. 1009 of 29 August 1965.
Photo Lothar Behlau on forum.e-train.fr.
Dimension | Actual | 1:87 | Model |
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Overall length | 26 400 | 303.4 | 303.0 |
Body length | 26 100 | 299.8 | 299.5 |
Chassis length | 25 100 | 288.5 | 291.0 |
Width | 2 820 | 32.4 | 32.4 |
Height | 4 260 | 49.0 | 49.1 2 |
Pivot distance | 19 000 | 218.4 | 218.0 |
Bogie wheelbase | 2 500 | 28.7 | 28.4 |
Wheel diameter | 920 | 10.6 | 10.3 |
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