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The car had twelve open sections with a fold-down upper berth and lower berth made by folding the seats down in each section, and one drawing room - a large enclosed room with three beds and its own toilet and sink. [1] The car was unusual in that it has a removable boards between the sections, when open it gives the car a very open feeling.
Pullman sleeping car, original to the William Crooks locomotive, on display in Duluth, Minnesota. The sleeping car or sleeper (often wagon-lit) is a railway passenger car that can accommodate all passengers in beds of one kind or another, for the purpose of sleeping. George Pullman was the American innovator of the sleeper car. [citation needed]
A Pullman-built troop sleeper at the Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum.. In United States railroad terminology, a troop sleeper was a railroad passenger car which had been constructed to serve as something of a mobile barracks (essentially, a sleeping car) for transporting troops over distances sufficient to require overnight accommodations.
Amid the better all-round service, one thing stands out: a focus on solo travelers, with the new trains containing pod-like single berths, as well as standard couchettes and sleeping cars. From ...
A mid-twentieth century sleeping car could contain approximately 22 roomettes, though it was more common for a car to include a mix of roomettes and other private-room sleeping accommodations. The most common sleeping car type of the era contained ten roomettes and six "double bedrooms", which were designed for use by two people.
Seats/berths Builder Numbers Sleeper Seated Carriage with Brake: 31: CAF Irun 2016–18: 15001–11 Sleeper Lounge Car: 30 or 28: CAF Beasain 2016–18: 15101–10 Sleeping Car (Fully Accessible) 6: CAF Castejon/Irun 2016–18: 15201–14 Sleeping Car: 10: CAF Beasain 2016–18: 15301–40
Later, three more sleeping cars were built with a similar internal layout, and named Werribee, Indi, and Ovens. As far as can be ascertained, only the first fourteen cars were built as shared vehicles. The last two, Buchan and Wando, appear to have been solely Victorian Railways rolling stock, built for running on the Mildura line. [12]
Between 1966 and 1975, the following carriages were built by Commonwealth Engineering at Granville for the Indian Pacific, Trans Australian and Ghan services: [5]. 13x ARJ First Class Roomette sleeping cars (20 berths in 20 compartments) numbered 240 to 245, 272 to 273 and 282 to 286.