Many of us think that double-Decker trains appeared recently, with the launch of the route Moscow - Adler. However, their history in our country goes back more than a century and a half. Let's start with the main features of this updated transportation facilities.
Bunk, double deck rail car modernization of conventional passenger cars for greater passenger capacity. Here a two-level location salons (one above the other). The most revealing examples are the TGV Duplex Shinkansen E4, E1 Shinkansen.
Depending on its design, this car can accommodate 40-70% more passengers. Given the fact that the passage of overpasses, tunnels, electrified sections of the route with a mounted network requires a limited height of the structure, the designers of such cars go to all sorts of tricks: the first floor was lowered as low as possible between the trucks, reduce the height of both salons. In the tourist double-Decker trains lower level performs a technical function, because its height is small, and the upper more spacious and comfortable, often with panoramic Windows. Below is a brief comparative characteristics.
Pros | Cons |
Increased capacity Compactness The Low position of doors can help keep the high platform | The Small height of the cabin Lack of space for large Luggage. For stations with high platforms, landing passengers hampered The complexity in the production The Increased height makes it more probable chance of overturning the wagon. |
Does Russia double-Decker trains? Railways offers passengers the four types of wagons:
Double-Decker trains to Russia have a whole list of features:
Double-Decker trains to Russia (St. Petersburg, Moscow, Samara and other areas) have the following features of its coupé:
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Additionally, passengers are offered the following services: potable and boiled water on the whole route, sanitary and hygiene articles, Souvenirs, periodicals, tea and confectionery.
In all directions following two-level compositions of Russian Railways guarantees:
Below are directions to go to double-Decker train in Russia.
69/70 | Moscow, Russia |
45/46 | |
5/6 | St. Petersburg |
7/8 | |
49/50 | Moscow - Samara |
23/24 | Moscow - Kazan |
103/104 | Moscow - Adler |
35/36 | Petersburg - Adler |
Positive traits that noted the passengers who have tested double-Decker train in Russia:
Disappeared from the eyes of passengers and disadvantages of two-level innovations:
Also among the disadvantages of the passengers noted the low ceilings, are not regulated by the climate control system, odor in cars, surly conductors, narrow beds, poor location of the Windows (too low), interruptions in WI-FI, high food prices, poor quality, tasteless food in rations for ST.
October 30, 2013 from Adler to Moscow went two-storey part of the 15 cars by Tver railcar factory. Before that, in September in Mineral Waters was opened the first Russian depot for bunk formulations. But these events are not the beginning of the history of double-Decker trains in the country - the first of these cars was built in 1864 at the Kolomna plant. "The cuckoo" (so called train due to the unofficial cry of "ku-ku", which the driver has marked the beginning of the train) ran between Peterhof and Oranienbaum, a section of the route in a densely populated suburban area.
In 1905 a two-level cars produced at Tver carriage works the carriage. Again they were commissioned only 50 years later the cars produced by the GDR shuttled between Belgorod and Kharkiv, Kovel and Lviv. In their image Leningrad carriage works created the domestic model double-deck train in the 70's. On the ground floor there were sleeping compartments-compartments and the second floor was a tourist, sightseeing - there were only seats. The issue was limited - only 16 models. The story is bunk of the trains was again broken off to start his new page in our day.
Speaking about innovations in the domestic Railways, not to mention that recently began to run the first private train in Russia:
The Emergence of private trains does not negate the monopoly of the Railways. The owners only own the rolling stock or even rent it. However, they pay for the provision of railway path, dispatching, locomotive traction. As for preferential journey of citizens, the new operators is that its not canceled. While there is a tendency that the Railways gives into the hands of private traders the most profitable directions, but the management hopes that in the future non-state structures transform and unclaimed routes. Lately on Russian Railways-you can see a number of innovations - private trains, two-level railcars. Of course, the shortcomings can be found throughout, but are advancing in the modernization of one of the oldest modes of transport in our country can not but rejoice.
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