compartment coach

Even 18 new compartment coaches were bought for this purpose.

The train usually consists of open or compartment coaches (1st and 2nd class).

Compartment coaches were used across almost the whole of Europe and were built right up to the 1930s.

After the end of the 19th century, fourth class compartment coaches were also procured.

Up in the 1950s, trains with Prussian compartment coaches ran on regional services.

Four- and six-wheeled compartment coaches were initially used in all train categories on main lines.

There are one or two first class coaches - one compartment coach, and one open on longer trains.

Initially the window frames on compartment coaches - like the coach bodies themselves - were made of wood, which very quickly warped.

Until about 1880, four-wheeled compartment coaches were typical.

In the 1960s the compartment coaches were converted to the so-called Rekowagen (rebuilds).

Compartment coaches with doors for each compartment, without any connexion between compartments, were built up to the end of the 20th century.

Several of these compartment coaches were used for express services along the Ruhr (Ruhrschnellverkehr).

The first compartment coaches in the 19th century comprised several cabins on one undercarriage, similar to the post coaches.

Initially they were mainly used for rural regional services, whilst urban local trains and local-distance services were dominated by compartment coaches.

The compartment coach was developed at the very beginning of the railway era in England simply by placing a post coach body on a railway undercarriage.

The name means "rebuild coach" and they were made by rebuilding or converting former state railway (Länderbahn) compartment coaches, many of which were over 30 years old.

From these wooden-bodied compartment coaches only the underbody (which was rebuilt to a common length of 13 metres), the running gear and the brake system was used.

A compartment coach is a railway passenger coach (US: passenger car) divided into separate areas or compartments, with no means of moving between each compartment.

With the advent of the D-Zug express coaches in 1892, compartment coaches were deployed in passenger trains on main lines and in built-up areas.

These were express trains (Schnellzüge), that did not switch to hauling the new through coaches, but stayed with the conventional, eight-wheeled compartment coaches common at that time.

In all, according to plans at that time, 8,550 coaches of this type were to be bought in order to finally get rid of the old, eight-wheeled, compartment coaches.

With the demise of the fourth passenger class in 1928, many compartment coaches were converted to coaches with heavy luggage sections (Traglastenwagen) by combining of compartments.

Most of the compartment coaches were rebuilt by the Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB) in the 1950s into Umbauwagen (rebuild coaches).

Some items of standard-gauge rolling stock were moved into Llanilar station yard at the time - including an LNER compartment coach plus some 4-wheel tank wagons.

The compartment coaches that remained in the East German Reichsbahn (DR) had several compartments combined and, as on the six-wheeled coaches, every second door was removed.