Monday, October 6, 2014

3-axle passenger car of the Egyptian Railways, 1890s


This was built about 1893 in Belgium for the Egyptian State Railways. Dozens of this type were used in ambulance trains by the British Army during its Palestine Campaign in WW1 to evacuate the wounded from the front. This particular coach was captured by Israel in the Sinai Peninsula in the 1956 war with Egypt and was used in breakdown trains. It is now in the Israel Railway Museum in Haifa - website

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