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B 21-75

Also known as:

Unified cars IV / Einheitswagen - EW IV / Voitures unifiées - VU IV

UIC / EVN numbering:

50 63 21-7350 63 21-7550 85 21-75

Vehicle type:

Regular passenger coach

Registration country:

Switzerland

Railway companies:

BLS - Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon BahnSBB CFF FFS - Schweizerische Bundesbahnen / Chemins de fer fédéraux suisses / Ferrovie federali svizzere

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1985

The first 20x units from this series, registered as B 21-73 400 - 419, are acquired in 1985 and 1991.

As the units are upgraded for push-pull operations, they receive new designation B 21-75.

Sources: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/VU_IV?oldformat=true

1999

3x additional units, B 21-73 420 - 422, are acquired in 1999 from the Bodensee-Toggenburg Railway where they were registered as B 21-73 304 - 306.

Sources: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/VU_IV?oldformat=true

2004

December

All units from this series are sold to the Swiss Federal Railways in exchange of all the Unified Cars Type III in the context of BLS giving up main line connections and taking over all operations of the Bernese RER.

Sources: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/VU_IV?oldformat=true, http://www.juergs.ch/bahn/vorbild/sbb/ewivb.html

2005

All units from this series are upgraded for a maximum speed of 200 km/h and receive new registration B 21-95 270 - 292.

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