BRCW coach body shell, Uyuni, Bolivia October 2002
In 1955 the FC Antofagasta & Bolivia railway ordered two all steel saloon coaches from the Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Co, Smethwick.
The end came for one of these coaches in some sort of accident with the bodyshell abandoned in the scrapyard at Uyuni.
A little piece of Birmingham awaits its fate on the Altiplano, joined by remnants of relics from several European locomotive builders. Interestingly the FCA diesel fleet in use at the time of this visit was mostly of Japanese origins.
BRCW coach body shell, Uyuni, Bolivia October 2002
In 1955 the FC Antofagasta & Bolivia railway ordered two all steel saloon coaches from the Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Co, Smethwick.
The end came for one of these coaches in some sort of accident with the bodyshell abandoned in the scrapyard at Uyuni.
A little piece of Birmingham awaits its fate on the Altiplano, joined by remnants of relics from several European locomotive builders. Interestingly the FCA diesel fleet in use at the time of this visit was mostly of Japanese origins.