Sleeping car

See also: Car

A sleeping car , also called sleeping car , is a Voiture of railroad designed to transport Voyageur S laid down in truths beds contrary to the Voiture-couchettes, with a service on very attentive board ensured by the " conducteur" sleeping cars, which proposes breakfast with the collation with champagne, been useful in cabin. This type of car makes it possible to travel by night under conditions optimal of rest. They are equipped with deprived Cabines, preserving the intimacy of the travellers. In 1st class, the sleeping cars generally propose individual cabins, also called " singles" , and of the " doubles" (accessible in 2nd class for the T2 sleeping cars, and on train certain) In 2nd class, there are generally sleeping cars T3, whose cabins offer three bunk beds. In France, the development of network TGV made the sleeping car offer obsolete for the internal lines and frontier whose times of way were shortened considerably, but the success of these cars, increasingly comfortable (medical private, high level service) are not contradicted on the relations with long distances.

PRINCIPAL LINES SERVED BY SLEEPING CARS (FRANCE 2007/2008) DIRECT SERVICES:

Calais-Paris-Venice/Vienna-Istanbul (Venice-Simplon-East-Express train)
Paris-Milan-Vérone-Venice (Stendhal)
Paris-Florence-Pisa-Rome (Palatino)
Paris-Carlsruhe-Stuttgard-Ulm-Augsburg-Munich (Nachtzug)
Paris-Bremen-Hamburg (Nachtzug)
Paris-Hanover-Berlin (Nachtzug)
Paris-Burgos-Madrid (Goya)
Paris-Figuéras-Barcelona (Miro)
Barcelona-Figuéras-Perpignan-Zurich-Milan (Salvador Dali)
Nice-Monaco-Venice-Rome (Monte Carlo)

SERVICES WITH CORRESPONDENCE TGV:

(Paris TGV-Thalys) - Cologne-Warsaw-Minsk-Moscow (Jan Kiepura/Be-West-Express train)
(Paris TGV-Thalys) - Cologne-Copenhagen (Andersen)
(Paris TGV-Eurostar) - London-Edinburgh-Glasgow-Aberdeen-Extremely-William (Calédonien)
(Paris TGV-Is) - Strasbourg-Salzburg-Vienna (East-Express train)
(Paris the TGV-Atlantic) - Hendaye-Irun-Lisbon (South-Express train)

THE LONGEST RAILWAY WAY NEVER CARRIES OUT IN SLEEPING CAR: About 1990, PARIS-TOKIO via Berlin, Warsaw, Moscow, Siberia and the transshipment by boat towards Yokohama, then the train. Ensured, at the beginning of the Station of North, by the Swiss company " Intraflug" , it circulated… ONLY Once! (approximately ten days of voyage)

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