Along with the first locomotives, Fleischmann also offered express train wagons as early as 1952, because the BR 01 express train locomotive, catalog number 1360, and the BR 44 electric locomotive, catalog number 1335, needed the right wagons to put together a train.

The car bodies and floor panels are made of sheet metal, the roofs are made of plastic. The windows are backed with cellon strips.

The cars were hand-painted at the beginning of production. The train route signs were raised until 1955. The destination stations were stamped, resulting in different lettering. It is not certain whether these markings were all intended by Fleischmann, or whether by chance (or intentionally) the stamps were also used on other wagons than intended.

This results in a large number of variants. An overview of the train route signs known to me is shown at the end.

Very sought after by collectors are the 1410 DB and the 1411 blue dining car, as well as all cars from the 1952 series with the large hook coupling 1.

From 1955 the train route signs were printed. This eliminates these variants, as otherwise the pressure plates would have had to be changed.

Fleischmann sold these cars in two train sets as early as 1952: 1335/3 and 1360/3

1410-1b

1410 DB (wrong bogies)

1410 SBB

Box 1410 SBB

Stamp variants

from 1952	Hamburg briefly from 1952-55
Hamburg long from 1953

 Car class digits

1410-3a	1410-3b

hand pattern
1411-1 Train route sign „Hamburg-Munich“
1411-1b train route sign „Hamburg-Köln“, kitchen on the right
1411-2a, kitchen on the left
1411-3

1412-1a without train route sign
1412-1e
1412-1c
1412-1e	1412-2b

1414-1 yellow-brown, 1st class roman. digital
1414-2 reddish brown
1414-3 brown, carriage classes Arabic numerals

Express train passenger car 1410-1413B

Overview of the train route signs

I would like to thank the following for their help:

Helge Blum, Lauchringen
Norbert Thiess, Darmstadt
Manfred Amler

Last edit: 08.07. 2020