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Old coach type question

  • 23-05-2013 02:20PM
    #1
    Going Forward
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,224 ✭✭✭


    What was the name/type of coach which had the corridor down one side and had compartments with sliding doors?

    I remember them as a chiseler...!


Comments

  • #2
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    'Side Corridor' or 'Corridor'.

    Probably early Laminates were what you came across?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coaching_stock_of_Ireland#.22Laminate.22_stock_.28now_withdrawn.29


  • #3
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,730 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    my knowledge is mainly from the UK, so forgive me if Irish practise difers..

    A corridor train would be one with a corridor throughout between coaches, which would either be of the open type with a central corridor or have a side corridor and compartments.

    A first class compartment coach would be classified a First Corridor ,known to me as a FK if it had compartments . If it had a compartment for the Guard it would be a Brake First Corridor (or BFK). A coach with First and Second/Third accommodation would be known as a Composite (thus CK or BCK if compartment stock) and a Second or Third class would be a SK/TK or BSK/BTK. (Open coaches would have O substituted for the K, thus a BSO would be a Brake Second Open etc)


  • #4
    Grandeeod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Grandeeod


    I think I travelled in a CIE version on a mystery train in the late 70s to Athlone via the moate branch.


  • #5
    cml387
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,984 ✭✭✭cml387


    Sometime in the early sixties, coming on holidays to ireland from the UK, I have a memory of being in a coach that had wooden seats and individual compartments and doors on the train from Dun Laoighre to Westland Row.

    Is this possible?


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