In Voitures d’exception por trains de legende 1872-1930 authors Jean-Marc Dupuy and Pierre-Yves Toussirot describe the coaching stock of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits in its first few decades of operation after the company was founded by Georges Nagelmackers.
The authors present a detailed catalogue of the stock, by type and by manufacturer, and describe the services operated. Very well illustrated, including views of some interior fittings.
Contents include:
Sleeping cars
Four-wheel sleeping cars (1872-1882)
The first bogie sleeping cars (1880-1886)
The first wooden bodied sleeping cars
19.74 m sleeping cars
Special sleeping cars for Egypt
Prototype car No. 1000
Diagram R 20.32 or 20.3 m cars
Mixed sleeping cars for Italy
The last wooden bodied cars
Restaurant cars
Six-wheel restaurant cars
Bogie restaurant cars
Restaurant cars for Egypt
19.74 m restaurant cars
20.32 m, 20.3 m and 20.4 m restaurant cars
The last wooden bodied cars
Four-wheel restaurant cars
Restaurant cars rebuilt in the 1920s
Saloon cars
Club Train saloon cars
19.74 m saloon cars
Wooden bodied saloon cars
Belgian saloon car Nos. 1501 to 1553
20.3 m saloon cars
Wooden bodied Pullman cars
Brake vans
Second hand CIWL stock
The CIWL Russian coach fleet
French text. More than 600 illustrations. Hardback. 368 pages.