| | Articles - Couchette car (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | The car is divided into a number of compartments (typically 8 or 9) accessed from the side corridor of the car, which in daytime are configured with a bench seat along each long side of the compartment. |
| | Unlike in sleeping cars, couchette compartments are not segregated by sex, and it is normal not to undress except for removing footwear. |
| | N.B. Couchette cars have never been operated in Britain - it was normal practice for British passengers to join long-distance overnight trains at Calais, Boulogne, Oostende or Hoek van Holland after crossing the English Channel or North Sea by ferry. |
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