page_title: Sleeping car
section_title: Compartments and Double Bedrooms
hierarchical_section_title: Sleeping car / History / Private Accommodations / Compartments and Double Bedrooms
caption_attribution_description: Postcard photo of a Pullman compartment on the Union Pacific Railroad.
context_page_description: The sleeping car or sleeper is a railway passenger car that can accommodate all passengers in beds of one kind or another, primarily for the purpose of making nighttime travel more comfortable. George Pullman was the American inventor of the sleeper car.
  The first such cars saw sporadic use on American railroads in the 1830s; they could be configured for coach seating during the day. Some of the more luxurious types have private rooms.
context_section_description: Compartments and Double Bedrooms are private rooms for two passengers, with upper and lower berths, washbasins, and private toilets, placed on one side of the car, with the corridor running down the other side (thus allowing the accommodation to be slightly over two thirds the width of the car). Frequently, these accommodations have movable partitions allowing adjacent accommodations to be combined into a suite.
caption: Pullman private compartment from c.1950s.
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