The type Lx (Voiture-Lits de grand luxe) was the name given to a sleeping car type of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (CIWL) in 1929. The 90 cars, of which 30 were made by Metropolitan/ Birmingham and 60 by EIC in France, are considered to be the most luxurious sleeping cars ever purchased by the CIWL. In the years before the Second World War, they were used in the CIWL's luxury trains, such as the Train Bleu, which consisted exclusively of sleeping and dining cars. After the war, the cars were also used in individual sleeping car services on normal night trains. Preserved examples are used in nostalgic trains such as the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express.
Models of these cars are made by various makers (Ataya, Amati, Darstaed, Elettren, France Trains, Fulgurex, J&M Models, Kato, Märklin, MTH and RivaRossi) in many modelling scales like Z, N, H0, 0 and 1.
Many pictures of these and other CIWL models can be found in my e-book (free to download): [ Ссылка ]
