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1st class express train coach UIC-X, type Az, of the Italian State Railways.
* Coach with separately applied plug-in parts. Model with true to original buffer height
* Model in Ardesia grey livery without skirt
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.
| Coupling | NEM shaft 355 with close coupling mechanism |
| Interior fitting | Model with interior furnishing |
| Original (country) | Italy |
| Scale | N |
| Epoch | IV |
| Railway Company | FS |
| Interior lighting Article number | 946901 |
| Interior lighting | Retrofittable |
| Control | DC analogique |
| Length over buffer | 165 mm |
