If you were offered to buy tickets in a common car

The one who travels often, already, most likely,faced with 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 at the box office yousuddenly offer a common car? 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 train (due to the frequent "throwing").

Tickets to the general rail car of RZD are always much cheaper,because a person can not take advantage of the services that are provided in wagons of the category of reserved seats and especially the coupe or CB, i.e., the comfort here is minimal: the seats are only sedentary, the bed linen is not issued. In addition, there is no provision for booking seats (tickets are not even numbered).

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

Typically, in general vehiclesthe cars are re-equipped with 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 beganrestructuring in the USSR. Faulty (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, andsuch re-equipment has 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,mainly in suburban trains with a total duration of stay on the way up 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 conductor's place (compartment).

The layout of the sitting car is identical to the layoutwagons of other types. 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 a similar design meet in tourist buses.