SNCF workcar Uas H55.0 80 87 979 3 525-7 was stabled on a siding in Antibes.Rebuilt from a former PLM A3B5 car , it was originally built as a wooden car between 1913 and 1923 , then metallised somewhere in the 1930's using a type 1936 car body and modernised between 1965 and 1968.With the most cars withdrawn by 1988 , some have survived as a work car.This particular one had its original Pennsylvania/Y16 bogies swapped with Y25 bogies , a standard bogie for freight cars.

Antibes , 26/07/2006.

Photo by : Denis Verheyden