Gallery car

Gallery car 1st class of the museum railway " Kingston Flyer ", New Zealand

The gallery car was a special type of railroad car and was built and used in the first century of the railroad .

A gallery car has an open side aisle and is similar in its general arrangement to the passage car with a side aisle. It differs from these vehicles in that the side aisle of the gallery car is only closed to the outside by a railing and the lateral extension of the car roof over the box wall forms the corridor roof, the edge of which is supported by a number of pillars.

Gallery wagons became known , among other things, for the postal wagons belonging to the Swiss postal administration on the Gotthard Railway . The Serbian Railway also had appropriate wagons that had been built by Ganz in Hungary . The reason for this special construction was the fear of endangering the postal secrecy by non-postal persons.

source

Encyclopedia of the Railway System, 1914, 2nd edition, Volume 5, pages 252-253

Individual evidence

↑ Scécsey István and György Villámyi: Ganz. Vasúti jármüvek 1868–1918 / Railway Vehicles 1868–1918 . Minden jog fenntartva, Budapest 2015. ISBN 978-963-88145-6-2 , p. 73.

[1] Scécsey István and György Villámyi: Ganz. Vasúti jármüvek 1868–1918 / Railway Vehicles 1868–1918 . Minden jog fenntartva, Budapest 2015. ISBN 978-963-88145-6-2 , p. 73.