Unidentified 2nd-class cars (B8u or B8tu), seen in the consist of Pilgrimage service 36440 (Lourdes--->Bressuire), running through the Landes forest at 160km/h.
As all Paris-Nantes/Bordeaux flagship services had been ousted by LGV Atlantique, some of these "Grand Confort" idle cars then joined the charter fleet, primarily to run on daytime Pilgrimage services...
Mid-90s.
Photo by Arnaud Grandclaude (Acknowledgements).
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