‘Etoile du Nord’ was built in 1926 in England by Birmingham Railway and Carriage and Wagon Co, Smethwick, in the same workshop as Pullman dining car 4095 and Ibis. Beautiful marquetry in the continental style panel the walls. In 1928 it was part of the Etoile du Nord from Paris to Amsterdam and then switched to the Edelweiss, based in Amsterdam for the winter season of 1928-9.

After running with the Lusitania Express from Lisbon to Madrid between 1961 and 1969 it finished service in the 1970s in Spain, running between Cadiz and Seville.