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SUEDIA. Railway rolling stock. Foto: Catalin.Ghita whitewolfcata(at!)yahoo.com

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SJ restaurant car R12 No. 5167. The origin of this car is the RB1 series (25 built 1968 to 1969). In the 1980s/1990s they were all rebuilt to self-service bistro cars R2. In 2000/2001 seven of them were rebuilt again with a new nostalgic interior, now serviced by Svenska Orientexpressen. Göteborg C, 2005-08-17 tobias b köhler

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SJ bistro car R2 No. 5175. Originally built 1968/1969 as brown RB1 (2nd class/restaurant), they were rebuilt from 1985 on as RB2 (painted black/red or entirely red). Göteborg C, 2005-08-17 tobias b köhler

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SJ bistro/cinema car S12 No. 5441. In 1987-1988, Kalmar Verkstads AB built 15 self-service bistro cars type R4. 1994 to 1998, six of them were rebuilt to type S12, now including a 18-seat cinema with video projector, screen and 18 seats. Göteborg C, 2005-08-19 tobias b köhler

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Interior of a self service buffet car of the SJ. 1996. Photo: tobias b köhler

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SJ bistro, Malmö, august 1998 Photo: marnix heijnemans

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SO - Sweden Nowadays restaurant cars in Intercity trains in Sweden are operated by Svenska Orientexpressen. They have applied their own livery to the rather old looking SJ restaurant cars. Göteborg, 26 June 2004 Digital photo by Marco van Uden

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Restaurant car type R7 in a connex train pulling out of Stockholm C. In 2003, connex bought 7 cars of type B3 (built in the 1960s) from the NSB and rebuilt them to restaurant cars with a completely new interior for their long distance trains to northern Scandinavia. Stockholm C, 2005-08-17 tobias b köhler