Hellas-Express

Romanian built, in 1974 by UZINA DE VAGOANE MEVA - TURNU SEVERIN, ROMANIA (according to Jason )

21 73 154 3 625-812 Gbs without Brake Hut, older UIC classification and numbering: 174 6 225- 412 Gbrs (188 units)
21 73 154 3 813-874 Gbs-v with Brake Hut, older UIC classification and numbering: 174 6 413-474 Gbrs-v (62 units)

21 73 154 3 714-5 Gbs at Tithorea


21 73 154 3 788-9 Gbs at Tithorea


21 73 154 3 708-7 Gbs at Tithorea


21 73 154 3 817-6 Gbs-v at Thiva




21 73 154 3 850-7 Gbs-v at Tithorea

Right Panagiotis ....

What a boring series .... Every place has one .

21 73 154 3 629-5 at Lachanokipi



21 73 154 3 637-8 at Mesti



21 73 154 3 657-6 at Velestino



21 73 154 3 664-2 at Domokos



21 73 154 3 696-4 at K.S.A. (Central Station of Alexandroupoli)



21 73 154 3 704-6 , burned at Xanthi



21 73 154 3 725-1 at Lianokladi



21 73 154 3 772-3 at Vena

And some with braking hut .

21 73 154 3 814-3 at Ligaria



21 73 154 3 823-4 at Gefira



21 73 154 3 832-5 at Lachanokipi



21 73 154 3 851-5 at Nea Magnisia



21 73 154 3 854-9 at Alexandroupoli's military station



21 73 154 3 857-2 at Arpini

GAZKGK wrote:What a boring series ....

I wouldn't expect such a comment from you Jason! at least this way you can remember all the places you have been.

Sometimes though even "boring" cars like these manage to surprise us. As I am actually not experienced at all with the on site spotting and identification and too lazy to learn something by heart, I usually try to do that later from the photos and the help of my notes.
I was a bit confused with the following vans, but with some help, I bet you guess from whom, I had a clue

I had shot 21 73 154 3 362-6 at Tithorea among the numerous cars that lay over there, but then it was obvious even to me that something wrong was going on. It wasn't a plank body like the rest of the 21 73 154 3 000-399 class!
As you have guessed, I sent the photo to Jason who doing that self-check digit calculation, managed to find the right number and to give the almost obvious explanation. Unfortunately I didn't have discover something special, it was just some careless OSE employee who had replaced a 6 by a 3, at least he has done it right, applying it both on the side and door

21 73 154 3 662-6 Gbs (marked as 21 73 154 3 362-6), Tithorea 5 April 2013



*** Theo, have you been there before me?



To make the long story short with the second one, I tend to forget that some of the wagons around had an older UIC number...

21 73 154 3 754-1 Gbs bears now its old number and classification 21 73 174 6 354-5 Gbrs on the side. Maybe the more recent paint and marks have faded and chipped revealing the older layers. At the end it is marked right, and at the frame too, although time has revealed some earlier layers there as well.

What a boring series .... Every place has one .

I quite like vans... guess that makes me boring, too. Anyway, I only seem to have one shot of this series to contribute, but just wait until we get to the Z5s!

And one 1974 Romanian wagon with a different door. The open car coupled next to it is registered with MAV.


Photo Balkanmodels: January 1993 at the Old Railway Station in Thessaloniki.

christo.

great shot Christo, could one make a guess about that door? a later replacement with whatever was handy?

The door is probably taken from a Belgian Z6.

Belgian Z6.

Jason, do you mean Yugoslav Z6?

christo.

Yes, right.

I usually confuse them with the Belgian T6 and T7