European Railroad Discussion > Blue Wagon-Lits Sleepers still operating in Europe?

Maybe some of the eastern Bloc countries have a few in circulation within their borders?
I rode on some in Spain in th 80's. At each end of the car was a very small steam boiler with attendent coal bunker!
About the size of a unit one still finds in homes for winter heat.
My compartment had a urinal which swiveled out from the woodwork. Very clever.
Some of these cars were originally built in the U.K. in the 1920's for european service.

ApproachCircuit Wrote:
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> Maybe some of the eastern Bloc countries have a
> few in circulation within their borders?

There aren't that many overnight trains in operation, but those that are use modern equipment

ApproachCircuit Wrote:
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> "At each end of the car was a very small steam boiler with
> attendent coal bunker!
> About the size of a unit one still finds in homes
> for winter heat.

I remember leaving Paris one evening around 1980 on the Night Ferry to London.  I had the window lowered and and kept thinking "I KNOW there isn't a steam locomotive on this train yet I keep smelling coal smoke".  It was only later that I learned about the little boilers.  Incidentally those Wagon-Lis sleepers were the only ones where the sleeping compartments were equipped with life preservers!

Gordon