If you were offered to buy tickets in a common car

The one who travels often already has, most likely, faced such a classification: a car of SV, a compartment, a reserved seat and a general car. And if there is no confusion with the first three names, then the last option still raises questions and requires clarification, especially for people who travel outside the city not so often.

What should you expect when you suddenly offer a general car at the ticket office? It looks like an ordinary car, which is part of trains (passenger), not following long distances. There may be another option: the car is attached to long-distance trains, but already at the very end of the going train (due to the frequent "throwing").

Tickets to the general rail car of RZD are always much cheaper, since a person can not use the services that are provided in wagons of the category of reserved seats and even more so the coupe or CB, that is, the comfort is minimal: seats are only sedentary, bed sheets are not given out. In addition, there is no provision for booking seats (tickets are not even numbered).

Each common car, like the others, has toilets, service rooms, coupe conductors, tambours, corridors (large and small), boiler room. In the car there are 9 passenger departments, in each department there are six places.

As a rule, in common vehicles are converted cars reserved seats: in the lower places instead of one person three are located. Therefore, you can sleep on the road only if neighbors do not go near you.

The practice of such re-equipment began during the reorganization in the USSR. Defective (or decommissioned) wagons with problem generators, poor lighting, lack of outlets (or lack of voltage in them), a non-working toilet, problem heating were repaired, modified and again sent to the railways.

Over time, new supplies of wagons began, and such re-equipment almost outlived itself. Although now the common car is a former reserved seat, but in a more decent and well-maintained condition, without technical malfunctions. However, the popular name "stable" has already become a proverb. Most likely, the name is attached to the common cars thanks to the dismantling of part of the partitions, doors, luggage and top shelves and part of the previously installed lamps. This redevelopment to some extent really reminds the stable, though pretty decent.

Common wagons are now rare, mostly in suburban trains with a total duration of stay on the way to 6 hours. A sitting car can be classified as a general, interregional car. There are sofas (or armchairs, or smooth, not boarded benches), separated by tables. Along the cabin there are large shelves for luggage. In the car there are two toilet rooms, a boiler and a place for the conductor (compartment).

The layout of a sedentary car is identical to that of other types of wagons. The chair is equipped with a capacious pocket (located at the back) and a table (folding) with a small depression for the cups. Armchairs of similar design meet in tourist buses.