Corridor coach

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Sketch of a French corridor coach (SNCF A9u)

A corridor coach is a type of railway passenger coach divided into compartments and having a corridor down one side of the coach to allow free movement along the train and between compartments.[ citation needed ]

The idea of connecting railway coaches by means of a interior corridor and exterior platform at each end dates to at least 1865, when a patent was obtained by William Chubb and Solomon Fry of Bristol. [1] [2] This concept was first applied in Britain 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". [3] The "Standard Corridor" thus became one of the standard mid-20th century designs of railway carriage. [4]

The corridor coach was known on the European continent as the American system or American coach in the early 1900s. [5] [6]

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References

  1. "Communication Between Carriages". London & North Eastern Railway Magazine. Vol. 28, no. 1. London: London & North Eastern Railway. January 1938. p. 63.
  2. Woodcroft, Bennet (1866). "Chubb. Fry. 12th May 1865. 1322". Chronological Index of Patents Applied For and Patents Granted, For the Year 1865. London: Office of the Commissioners for Patents and Inventions. p. 91 via HathiTrust.
  3. http://www.bluebell-railway.co.uk/bluebell/car_fs1.html The Development of the British Railway Carriage, accessed on 23 May 09.
  4. British Railways Vehicle Diagram Book 200 for Loco Hauled Coaches (PDF). July 1982. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-12-20. Retrieved 2020-02-08.{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  5. Konrad, Emil (1984). Die Reisezugwagen der deutschen Länderbahnen, Vol. 2: Bayern, Württemberg, Baden, Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart, p. 12. ISBN   3-440-05327-X.
  6. von Waldegg, Edmund Heusinger (1870). Handbuch für Specialle Eisenbahn-technik, Vol. 2, Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig, p.20.