ABU - First/Second Class Sitting Car


The ABU were introduced to service between 1961 and 1970. They were converted from ABW_ cars and retained the same numbers.

There were fifty one cars recoded. The numbers were: 2 - 52.

The reason for the conversions was to segregate large and small capacity ABW carriages. Small capacity cars were recoded to ABU, large capacity ABW cars retained their coding.

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