As early as the late 1950s, increasing competition from aircraft and road traffic forced long-established travel companies such as Touropa and Scharnow to improve their offers. The DB, as the owner of the couchette car, took the first step at the urging of Touropa and installed four preferred compartments in each of the couchette cars delivered in 1953 and 1954. In 1963 the first UIC-X couchette cars of the type Bc4üm-62 (later Bcm 243) came onto the rails. The new couchette cars had only 10 compartments and a bellboy's compartment.
From 1967 new 27.5 m long carriages with priority compartments (Bctm 256) were added and for the last time the company names of the major tour operators were emblazoned on these carriages. After the merger of various tour operators to form TUI (Tourism Union International) in 1969, the lettering disappeared at the beginning of the 1970s. Some holiday trains continued to run until well into the 1980s with Bcm 246 and Bctm 257 cars, some of which were modernized again.
A Series of Additional Coach Packs are available to create a long rake of coaches.
Item Number | H22200 |
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Operator | DB "Touropa" |
Era | III |