Sachsen Modelle Dining Car #14624 City Night Line Livery

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Sachsen Modelle Dining Car #14624 City Night Line Livery
This listing is part of a collection which was purchased from an elderly HO enthusiast who had collected sets, carriages and locomotives for over 45 years. He informed me that most of the equipment was used rarely and mostly only displayed, except for the very old (pre 2000) items. Some of these items are 40 years old and were purchased in the old West Germany and East Germany – true vintage collectibles.I have not run these items myself. Should you find that they fail to meet your expectations, please let me know and I shall arrange for their return to me and you will receive a full refund, including the shipping cost. These HERIS HO gauge passenger carriages are all in new, near new, or excellent condition and have been lovingly cared for. All come in their original boxes/packaging. They would be a beautiful and unique addition to any layout.The City Night Line StoryCity Night Line, abbreviated CNL, was a train category of German railway company Deutsche Bahn for overnight passenger train services between Germanyand neighbouring European countries.

In 1998, Deutsche Bahn hived off its night train services, which were providedwith the train categories EN (EuroNight) and UEx (Urlaubsexpress), from DB Fernverkehr AG to DB AutoZug GmbH. One year later, the CityNightLine AG company, domiciled in Zurich and until then a jointventure operated by Deutsche Bahn and the state-owned railways of Austria andSwitzerland, BB and SBB, became a wholly owned subsidiary of DB Fernverkehr AG.
The target was toestablish overnight services as a supplementary product to high-speed trainsover long distances (between 800 and 1500 km). To achieve that objective,the existing train categories CityNightLine (CNL), DB NachtZug (NZ) andUrlaubsExpress (UEx) were amalgamated to form one new product called City NightLine (CNL), which was integrated in the fare systems and sales processes of thedifferent departure countries. The line network was then redesigned to reflectthese new objectives: routes which ran parallel to long-distance services werediscontinued, other routes were systematically extended, destinations with strongseasonal fluctuations and tourist destinations were replaced by daytimeservices. In the course of this bundling process, older passenger cars weretaken out of service. Since then, the entire fleet of sleeping, couchette andseated cars has been fully air-conditioned.

The night lines wereoriginally operated by the former railway company CityNightLine. Like DB AutoZug GmbH, the company was a wholly owned subsidiary of Deutsche Bahnand was integrated in the DB Group as from 1 January 2010 in the form of anasset deal.
Rolling StockCity Night Linetrains were made up of compartment or open-saloon coaches with reclining seats,couchette cars, sleeping cars and dining cars. All lines had a specialcompartment for passengers with restricted mobility. To facilitate the carriageof luggage, either combined couchette and luggage cars were used or seated carswith a special luggage/bicycle compartment. New sleeping cars were designedspecially for City Night Line and 2 different types are currently in use: thedouble-deck sleeping car (type 171.X and 172.X) and Comfortline (type 173.1).The cars were air-conditioned and each compartment has two or three berths,Deluxe cars have a private bathroom (shower, washbasin and WC). There wasotherwise a washbasin in each compartment; shower and WC are in the aisle.Laptop connections were only available in the newer Comfortline cars. Thecompartments had “normal” beds.Source: Wikipedia 07March 2020

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