Contents:
1 covered freight car
1 luggage car
1 passenger car
1 ambulance car

The serious railway accident between Stuttgart and Vaihingen in 1889 showed that an efficiently-organised hospital train and ambulance service is indispensable. In collaboration with the ?Württembergischen Freiwil-ligen Sanitätskorps?, a former branch of the Red Cross in Württemberg, new and more efficient organisa-tional structures for the emergency services were established. Ambulance cars for permanent stand-by op-eration were built, and many passenger cars were fitted out to enable their fast and simple conversion for ambulance service. For example, they had double access doors and a fold-down platform railing. Both be-came standard features in Württemberg passenger cars.


As a result, it was possible at short notice to add another five hospital trains to the full-time one during the First World War. These six trains transported 156,698 wounded individuals and many of them owe their lives to the efficiently-functioning Württemberg hospital trains. Other railway administrations leased Württemberg cars to replace their own less suitable cars in hospital trains.