8X-090 Volunteer accommodation at the Bluebell Railway: Compagnie Internationale de Wagons-Lits 'Night Ferry' Sleeping Car No. 3801 at Sheffield Park
Scan of a slide print taken circa 1988; A vehicle I seem to have made a habit of snapping, No. 3801 was built in 1939 by CGT Paris for the Compagnie Internationale de Wagons-Lits, but was not completed until after the war. Furthermore the Night Ferry service from Paris to London did not resume until 1947.
No. 3801 was used on the last Night Ferry service in 1980, and was stored subsequently at Ostend. In 1984 it returned to the UK, again by ferry, after purchase by a group of the Bluebell's working members for use as overnight sleeping accommodation. It has been repainted from the later light-blue SNCF livery to the deep-blue CIWL livery.
8X-090 Volunteer accommodation at the Bluebell Railway: Compagnie Internationale de Wagons-Lits 'Night Ferry' Sleeping Car No. 3801 at Sheffield Park
Scan of a slide print taken circa 1988; A vehicle I seem to have made a habit of snapping, No. 3801 was built in 1939 by CGT Paris for the Compagnie Internationale de Wagons-Lits, but was not completed until after the war. Furthermore the Night Ferry service from Paris to London did not resume until 1947.
No. 3801 was used on the last Night Ferry service in 1980, and was stored subsequently at Ostend. In 1984 it returned to the UK, again by ferry, after purchase by a group of the Bluebell's working members for use as overnight sleeping accommodation. It has been repainted from the later light-blue SNCF livery to the deep-blue CIWL livery.