A corridor coach is a type of railway
passenger coach
A passenger railroad car or passenger car (United States), also called a passenger carriage, passenger coach (United Kingdom and International Union of Railways), or passenger bogie (India) is a railroad car that is designed to carry passen ...
divided into compartments and having a corridor down one side of the coach to allow free movement along the train and between compartments.
These were first introduced, in Britain at least, around the start of the 20th century, because the advent of dining cars made it advantageous to enable passengers to move down the length of a train. This was achieved by linking the corridors of adjacent coaches using a "
corridor connector". The "
Standard Corridor
The Second Corridor (previously Third Corridor) type of railway carriage was one of the standard mid-20th century designs, and was coded SK (previously TK) by the LNER and BR, and CF by the LMS. The layout of the coach was a number of compart ...
" thus became one of the standard mid-20th century designs of railway carriage.
The corridor coach was known on the European continent as the ''American system'' or ''American coach'' in the early 1900s.
[von Waldegg, Edmund Heusinger (1870). ''Handbuch für Specialle Eisenbahn-technik'', Vol. 2, Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig, p.20.]
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British Rail coach type codes
British Railways coach designations were a series of letter-codes used to identify different types of coaches, both passenger carrying and non-passenger carrying stock (NPCS). The code was generally painted on the end of the coach but non-gangwa ...
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Corridor (rail vehicle)
A gangway connection (or, more loosely, a corridor connection) is a flexible connector fitted to the end of a railway coach, enabling passengers to move from one coach to another without danger of falling from the train.
Origins: Coaches in Br ...
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Soft Sleeper
The soft sleeper (), abbreviated RW or WR (CRH), is a passenger railway compartment class in the People's Republic of China. Soft sleeper is the main class on most Z-series express trains, and are grouped in several carriages as part of slower ...
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