Hellas-Express

There was a time when they used to run an evening post train between Athens and Salonica both direcetions, every evening. There was a time when Salonica station had no catenary wires. This was now 21 years ago.


Photo Balkanmodels: April 1992 NES Thessaloniki. One of the 400 Polish wagons in active duty.

christo.

Divided again to two series, all as type '' 205Ka '' of the builder, PA.FA.WAG. WROCLAW.

Z2 21 73 131 0 000-299, Gs
Z2 21 73 131 0 300-399, Gs-v with braking hut.







Some Gs...

21 73 131 0 009-1 - Ligaria



21 73 131 0 168-5 - Lianokladi



21 73 131 0 175-0 - i don't remember where ... (i thing somwhere around Xanthi)










And some Gs-v:

21 73 131 0 331-9 - Sfendali



21 73 131 0 335-0 - Lianokladi



21 73 131 0 348-3 - Nea Magnisia

New models announced by Brawa :


Gedeckter Güterwagen Gze der MAV , Betriebsnummer: 103 154
Best.-Nr. 50126


Gedeckter Güterwagen Ggs "MC RIV" der MAV , Betriebsnummer: 22 55 149 4 049-6
Best.-Nr. 50127

We'll see if the real models have the reinforcements on the doors, and the other typical MÁV details.

My personal opinion is that this model fits 99.5% with the OSE Z2 Polish-built 1966 & 1967 plank body vans (21 73 131 0 000-299 Gs and 21 73 131 1 025-174 Gs respectively).
It is worth noting that this wagon is produced by Brawa in over 15 different versions. Why not a Greek one?
Could anyone contact Brawa and ask to include the Greek wagon in its production??
ConTrain

This is a great find! thanks Pierre!
Contrain is right, we can model the Polish Z2 vans with just a minor modification of the end beams above the hooks!
Note that they look identical to the Romanian vans that Andy has produced, only the roof is different.

We have just found a new project. All we need is a decal set and ask erail to order some models for us now that he is at Nuremberg

Possibly an even better find than the announced Brawa model : Exact-train News 2021.

Happy New Year and good health to all

Panagioti, if you need any 3d parts for the brakeman cabin, tell me.

Stefane, I think you have to make some measurement of the real thing break post

Pierre, I can see one that looks like ours at page 8 but I can't tell the models code number.

The model is here!!!



There are some bad news! This is not going to stop us from modeling some OSE vans though
Just follow the link: https://hellas-express.eu/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=535

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