Royal Egyptian saloon railcar (1951)
The 1951 Royal Saloon Railcar is a diesel railcar that FIAT delivered to Egypt in 1951 for use by the Egyptian King Faruq .
vehicle
Faruq, the penultimate king of Egypt, owned several court trains , including saloon railcars. In 1951, a year before he was discontinued, he had a two-part saloon railcar from Fiat in Turin . The train was the last court train to be purchased for an Egyptian king and equipped according to the most modern standards available to the railway vehicle industry at the time.
The vehicle is designed for standard gauge and a maximum speed of 60 km / h. It was one of the first diesel- powered vehicles on the Egyptian State Railways and was also known as the "Royal Diesel".
The two vehicle parts are the same length. One part of the vehicle contains the engine, rooms for staff and escorts, a radio room and a day salon. In the second part of the train there is another day salon, a bedroom with two beds and a bathroom, another room for staff and the kitchen. The design was in green and silver, the king's preferred colors. The train was equipped with a train telephone , and a fold-out antenna on the roof of the vehicle was used for radio communications.
During the monarchy, the railcar was located near the Koppa Palace in Cairo . The King Faruq, following Republican heads of state of Egypt, Muhammad Nagib and Gamal Abdel Nasser , did not use the train, Anwar as-Sadat occasionally and Husni Mubarak twice.
future
The railcar is to be refurbished in 2019 and used for tourists.
See also
literature
- Chen Melling: Farouk's Royal Train - FIAT 2-car DMU . In: HaRakevet 105 (June 2014). P. 16.
- NN: The Former Royal Train . In: HaRakevet 123 (December 2018), p. 17f.