Hobbytrain H22102 N 3-piece CIWL set 1 Simplon Express, Méditerranée Express set

The Calais-Méditerranée Express was introduced in the winter timetable 1886/1887 and was a luxury train of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lit. It traveled from 1886 bis1939 from Calais and Paris respectively to the French-Italian Riviera. Later, after the introduction of the famous steel blue sleeper cars in 1922, the train was also named “Le Train Bleu“.

Like all the luxury trains of the CIWL, the Calais-Méditerranée-Express consisted exclusively of sleeping, dining and luggage cars. In addition to the usual teak wagons of CIWL, the visually eye-catching 2-color cream-brown wagons were also used in this train. In the model the complete 6-part train is realized with two luggage, three sleeping cars and one dining car. The destination signs of the sleeping cars are authentically different. The sleeping and dining cars have interior lighting and numerous details and attachments both inside and outside.

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