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Bt "units 31 - 33"

Vehicle type:

Coach with control cab

Registration country:

Switzerland

Railway companies:

MO - Chemin de fer Martigny–Orsières

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Era:

III - VI

Gauge:

Standard gauge (1'435 mm)

Length over buffers (mm):

23600

Compartments (compartments / attendant compartment):

Total number of seats (1st class seats / 2nd class seats / 3rd class seats / folding seats):

0/72/0/0

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1962

3x Bt control cars were acquired in 1965.

They are registered as units 31 to 33.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martigny–Orsières_Railway

1984

September 1

Control car Bt 31 is destroyed during the collision between two ABDe 4/4 railcars (units 6 and 8) at Martigny-Bourg on September 1st, 1984.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martigny–Orsières_Railway

1985

Destroyed control car Bt 31 is replaced by a similar unit acquired from Val-de-Travers Regional Railway Company (RVT) where it was registered as Bt 201.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travers–Buttes_railway, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martigny–Orsières_Railway

in the '90s

Equipped with flush exterior doors and rectangular headlamps. New "Saint-Bernard-Express" paintscheme.

Concerns registration number(s): 31[sup]II[/sup], 32, 33

Sources: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotrices_EAV

2014

November

withdrawal from service

Withdrawn from service and sold to the association DSF, which took all the parts that were still usable, before demolishing them.

Concerns registration number(s): 50 37 20-03 031, 50 37 20-03 032, 50 37 20-03 033

Sources: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotrices_EAV

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Latest update on the 25th of May 2024 at 18:07

Contributor(s): Tudor C., Armand P.

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