2nd-class UIC Couchettes car of SNCF (Bc9x), seen awaiting departure on Estrella 301/Rapide 300 "Puerta del Sol" (Madrid Chamartin-Paris Austerlitz).
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These were built in the early-70s to cater for passengers travelling with cheap tickets sold by Wasteels (i.e. BIGE and BIGT) on French-Iberic sleepers, hence their particular livery.
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Madrid-Chamartin.
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July 1995.
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Photo by Eduardo Pareja Pintos (edupintos@hotmail.com) (Acknowledgements).
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Posting and comment by P.L.Guillemin (plguillemin@yahoo.fr)