Non-Bogie Corrider Coaches

[GERDecapod]

Hello everybody, I'd like to enquire if anyone knows of any non-bogie corridor coaches such as 4 and 6-wheelers. I'm also curious if any such coaches also had gangways. Thank you for your help.

[russ p]

LMS stove R  vans were 6 wheel and had british standard gangways.  Not sure if there were any non bogie vehicles with pullman gangways 

The last non bogie vehicle with a gangway was the optical vehicle in the structure gauging train and this had BS gangways 

Edited July 18, 2022 by russ p

[Poor Old Bruce]

Didn't the German 6-wheelers have gangways?

[Gordonwis]

Both DB and SNCF had fleets of 'modernised' pre-war 4 and 6 wheel coaches, whereby metal bodies were put on pre-war underframes to replace wooden bodies. Both types had central doors and internal gangways/ semi-corridors. In Germany they were known as Umbauwagen dreiachsig (to distinguish from bogie Umbauwagen). The SNCF examples didn't really have a name other than 'trois pattes' (literally 3 paws - ie 6 wheeler), but trois pattes also applied to any 3-axle vehicle. The SNCF ones were however sometimes known as 'Bruhat' because they were the 3 axle version of the more famous bogie 'bruhat' modernised coaches. 

Edited July 18, 2022 by Gordonwis

[DavidB-AU]

DB built several thousand of them in the 1950s on the frames of old Landerbahn coaches.

 

[Nick C]

PKP had 4-wheel vestibuled coaches, with doors in the ends to access adjacent vehicles - not covered gangways as such though.

 

see http://skansenchabowka.pl/tabor/wagon-osobowy-nr-9221-serii-bi/ as an example - this one has two open saloons, accessed from enclosed end vestibules. Others had open platforms either end.

[D9020 Nimbus]

DR in East Germany had 4- and 6-wheel Rekowagen — similar in principle but different in appearance.