Railway passenger car with private sleeping berths
For the 1933 film, see Sleeping Car (film).
Not to be confused with Sleeper (car) or Railway sleeper.
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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]
The first such cars saw sporadic use on American and English railways in the 1830s; they could be configured for coach seating during the day.
The sleepingcar 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...
1st class sleepingcar from the U.S.A. (designated as a Pullman car in 1984, cut from all productions after Broadway) Duvay the SleepingCar (replaced...
Chicago. Pullman developed the sleepingcar, which carried his name into the 1980s. Pullman did not just manufacture the cars, it also operated them on most...
Founded in 1925, The Brotherhood of SleepingCar Porters and Maids, commonly referred to as the Brotherhood of SleepingCar Porters (BSCP), was the first labor...
contractors built the British Railways Mark 1 sleepingcar between 1957 and 1964. Three hundred and eighty cars of three different types were built, with...
railroad car that is designed to carry passengers. The term passenger car can also be associated with a sleepingcar, a baggage car, a dining car, railway...
The SleepingCar is a farce play in three parts by William Dean Howells, first published in the United States in 1883. This play takes place entirely within...
The SleepingCar Porter is a novel by Canadian writer Suzette Mayr, published in August 2022 by Coach House Books. Set in the 1920s, the novel centres...
The SleepingCar Murders (also known as The SleepingCar Murder, French title: Compartiment tueurs) is a 1965 French mystery film directed by Costa-Gavras...
SleepingCar to Trieste is a 1948 British comedy thriller film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Jean Kent, Albert Lieven, Derrick De Marney...
porters on sleepingcars. Starting shortly after the American Civil War, George Pullman sought out former slaves to work on his sleeper cars. Their job...
car type operated by Amtrak on most long-distance routes operating east of Chicago. The first production cars, consisting of an order of 50 sleeping cars...
consist as having fourteen cars normally assigned: nine sleepingcars between New York and Chicago, one additional sleepingcar from New York continuing...
"Sleeping in My Car" is a song by Swedish pop music duo Roxette, released on 7 March 1994 by EMI as the lead single from the duo's fifth studio album,...
In the early hours of 6 July 1978, a fire broke out in a sleepingcar train near Taunton, Somerset, England. 12 people were killed and 15 were injured...
A couchette car is a railway carriage conveying non or semi-private sleeping accommodation. The car is divided into a number of compartments (typically...
engineer and industrialist. He designed and manufactured the Pullman sleepingcar and founded a company town in Chicago for the workers who manufactured...
A sleeping berth is a bed or sleeping accommodation on vehicles. Space accommodations have contributed to certain common design elements of berths. While...
Madonna of the SleepingCars (French:La madone des sleepings) may refer to Madonna of the SleepingCars (novel), a 1925 novel by Maurice Dekobra Madonna...
intended as a catalogue of sleeping carriages used by the Victorian Railways and successors. In 1886, delivery was taken of four sleeping carriages built by the...
The Hokutosei (北斗星) was a limited express sleepingcar train service in Japan which operated between Ueno Station in Tokyo and Sapporo Station in the northern...
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