wagon Passenger carriage B3yg

After WWII and into the 1960s, just like the German State Railway (DR), the German Federal Railway (DB) had to cope not only with a substantial shortage of passenger coaches but also with the fact that most of the rolling stock was excessively old. In the 1950s, there were still no less than 22,345 two-, three- and four axle compartment and open carriages of early Prussian and Bavarian designs dating back even to prior to the First World War making up the larger part of the carriage fleet for local and semi-fast trains. The few St