A place in the third class
A carriage opens a window for the journeys of other times.
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The Visit Cabeceiras portal highlights a third-class British carriage of 1876 at the Railway Nucleus. The class number and date help to locate the object: it is a 19th-century piece, long before the line arrived at Arco de Baúlhe. The presence in the collection does not mean that it was built for this station.
The municipal publication identifies this piece as Cefv 79 and presents it as the oldest carriage in the collection described there. In the same stall, it refers to a passenger carriage built in Belgium in 1908.
The inventory mark helps distinguish the object; the class refers to its function in passenger transport. The origin of manufacture, service provided and arrival at the museum are separate questions: these sources do not reconstitute all carriage trips.
Source and context
Visit Cabeceiras — Railway core Arco de Baúlhe
Accessed:
Municipality — Land Museum of Basto: a journey through the history of the region, pp. 28–29
Accessed:
Editorial summary; the date of consultation is not the date of the facts.