ABz Nord suburban coach RMA

Brand - Reference

CPMR/RMA 124

Type

ABz Nord

UIC number	Revision date
50 87 28-30 515-4 2	—

Weight

91 g (NEM: 97 to 126 g)

Comments

I did not really appreciate the fact that, for the price, there was no serious instruction sheet in the box: the manufacturer simply referred to an article in the Indépendant du Rail magazine, of which he was the publisher… Did you think “forced sale”?

Good condition.

Wheels ⌀ 10.7; flanges 1 mm. Flank spacing 14.3 mm. Brake blocks not facing the treads.

Modifications

Bogie side pivots reinforced.

History

Built between 1931 and 1935, 21.30 m long. They had two platforms, between which there were six windows for the B and C type, and five bays for the A type. This is not specified for the ABs of 1935, but, as they were downgraded in C during some time, we can assume that they also had six windows. The trains consisted of eight or nine coaches.

The coaches were connected by their Pulmann metal “bellows”, not by their buffers which were thus set back; RMA/CPMR did the opposite! See the Loco-Revue forum Voitures de banlieue. They were equipped with the Willison automatic coupling, plus a conventional screw coupling to be coupled to non-equipped machines (16500 for example).

Documents

• Wikipedia article
• Le Train Archives du Nord Volume 2, p. 53-54 (photos of Compagnie du Nord era).
• Le plan du mois of Loco-Revue No. 371 of April 1976 : PLM suburban coach, whose essential characteristics are identical.
• Forum e-train Rames réversibles Nord.
• Photos on lapassiondutrain.blogspot.fr.