passenger coach Bp 2507 panoramic car 50 years of Bernina Express RhB AC

Brand
Bemo
gauge
HO gauge	16,5mm
power supply
AC
product type
passenger coach
technical & model details
running number	Bp 2507
interior lighting	nachrüstbar
interior details	ja
couplers	Bemo-Bügelklupplung
Length (mm)	191
scale	1:87
Age notice	not suitable under 14 years
country
Switzerland	RhB
era (continental)
era VI (since 2007)

Model: HO gauge AC. Panorama car Bp 2507 with 50 years of the Bernina Express logo of the RhB.

Role model: A trip on the Rhaetian Railways Bernina Express (BEX) is one of the most beautiful railway adventure trips in the world. The route used is the highest rail connection across the Alps that operates all year round. Consequently, in 2008 it was only the third railway line in the world to receive the UNESCO World Heritage label: loops to gain height, some with sweeping viaducts, breathtakingly high viaducts over deep gorges, countless elaborate tunnel structures on the one hand, and the view of impressive glaciers and, a little later, palm trees on the other, combine many impressions his journey of just under four and a half hours between the Graubünden cantonal capital Chur over the Bernina Pass to Tirano in northern Italy.

The foundation for today's success of the express train was laid in the 1960s with the procurement program for the EW I standard wagons. The 14 slightly shortened EW I AB 1541-1546 and B 2307-2314, which were put into service in 1968 (and the B 2451-2460, which were subsequently purchased in 1972 ) finally made it possible for the summer season of 1969 to use continuous, transfer-free through coaches from Chur via the Albula line to Tirano. This marked the birth of the express train with the name Bernina Express on the route board of the through carriages. For the 1973 summer season, the use of the new Gem 4/4 801+802 two-power locomotives from Samedan enabled an accelerated handover from the main network to the Bernina line. From 1973 onwards, the through carriages ran as an independent Samedan-Tirano train and were henceforth referred to as the Bernina Express in the route book. The use of the EW III and later EW IV significantly increased the comfort of the train.

The millennium brought another major boost in comfort when air-conditioned panoramic cars were put into service for the Bernina Express (as had been the case for the Glacier Express in 1993). In the anniversary year, the panoramic cars will receive a corresponding anniversary logo.