Passenger car express train car Am 203 1.KL DB Ep.IV

1st class express train passenger car, type Am 203, of the German Federal Railroad (DB).

UIC-X wagon: New construction 2020!

- Car with separately attached plug-in parts and prototypical buffer height

It is a former A4üm-61, successor to the AB4ümg-54 (A4üm-54). 144 cars were built from 1963.
Manufacturer: WMD; OK; DWM; Wegmann, LHB and Hsnsa
Depending on the type of brake, the cars were approved for speeds of up to 160 km/h.

Prototype: More than 6,145 express train cars of the Deutsche Bundesbahn are designated as UIC-X cars, which were put into service from 1952 and sometimes ran in express trains and in intercity traffic for half a century. These cars had a level of comfort that was previously unknown in Europe. The UIC-X cars were immediately put into high-quality express train use, especially in international services and in transit and inter-zone traffic to West Berlin and the GDR, these cars quickly became the standard. The existing F-train network (until 1956 with the then first and second carriage class, after that only the first) was converted to UIC carriages very quickly. By the mid-1960s, this car design had ousted practically all pre-war cars from express train service.