INOX-DEV trolleys
The INOX-DEV wagon is a series of 406 passenger wagons of the French state railway SNCF , which was procured in several tranches from 1950 to 1970 and made of stainless steel . The car manufacturer was Carel & Fouché .
DEV program
1946 was the French car -Neubauprogramm DEV (division des études des voitures) to procure modern rolling stock placed. There were two vehicle variants, one made of stainless steel (French acier inoxydable, DEV INOX series) and one made of normal steel (DEV AO series). The stainless steel cars, which were produced from 1950, had a chrome-nickel-steel car body with the characteristic side ribs based on a patent from the American BUDD company and were not painted, but remained in the silver look or "INOX look".
Type "Inox courtes"
These are tranches from 1950, 1952, 1953 and 1954, which had a shorter (French: courte) length of 23.44 meters. The car length remained well below the standard length of the German Federal Railroad of 26.4 meters, which was intended for the new express and express train cars .
Cars of the types A 8 , A 6 D, A 3 B 5 , B 9, A 5 s (bar) and A 7 s (with smoking compartments) were produced, with the upholstered seats of the first class (A) and the second car class (B). These compartment cars were initially not air-conditioned. In 1953, an air-conditioned car series with 22 first and second class as compartment and open seating cars was procured for the Mistral express train . In the case of the Train-Bleu and Flèche d'Or trains, the non-air-conditioned equipment remained.
After the Mistral was upgraded to a TEE , it received a red band between the top of the window and the roof edge with the inscription Trans Europ Express . After new Inox wagons of the Mistral 69 series (which were largely similar to the PBA series from 1964) were used in the Mistral, these wagons were used from 1970 to 1975 in the TEE trains Goethe and l 'Arbalète between Frankfurt (Main) Hbf and . Zurich HB to Paris Est .
A total of exactly 142 cars were manufactured from this series, including two copies from 1955.
With the class reform of 1956 on the European railways, the A 3 B 5 and B 9 and B 5 s cars were reclassified to the first class A 8 . Later, however, the now called A 9 coaches were downgraded to B 9 and the interior was changed (eight instead of six seats per compartment).
Type "Inox longues"
From 1955, the car bodies were lengthened to 25.09 meters (French longue), which in practice meant one more compartment. Because the class system of the state railways was changed in Europe in 1956, there were also coaches of the new first class and those of the upholstered second class with eight seats per compartment. Otherwise six were common. A total of 264 cars were procured from this series in annual tranches for the years 1955 to 1964 and 1969 and 1970. The types B 10 , A 6 s (restaurant), A 5 s (bar), A 9 s and A 7 Dt were built. (with luggage compartment). In this series, too, some of the A-cars were converted into second-class cars in the 1980s.
Both types of wagons were mainly used in high-quality express trains, and later even in TEE traffic in train routes to Switzerland , the Benelux and Germany . Inox wagons were also used on the Paris Est - Frankfurt (Main) Hbf route until it was replaced by Corail wagons .
Portugal
The Portuguese railways also procured cars of the INOX design with lengths of 23.34 and 25.09 meters from 1954. These were mixed-class cars, first and second class, built under license from Sorefame . In 1990 these were converted into dining cars and bistro cars with first class. In the 1960s and early 1970s, Sorefame built other Inox wagons, known as "Sorefame wagons", which were essentially inspired by the French INOX wagons, but differed in some design features.
Israel
Used French INOX wagons were sold to Israel Railways and were still in use there in the 1990s.
