Through coach

A course car is a passenger coaches of the railroad, the sections has a different path from the rest of the train.

The car will be " converted " according to individually by a train on the other. In this way, a transfer-free connection guarantees on non- busy routes. Because of the labor-and time-consuming shunting in Germany there are coaches compounds almost exclusively in the feeder traffic to the North Sea islands of Fohr and Amrum on the track Niebüll - Dagebüll and at night passenger trains in holiday destinations like France, Spain or Italy. In other countries, coaches are more often used. So run, for example, the parade features Bernina Express and Glacier Express the Rhaetian Railway and the Matterhorn- Gotthard -Bahn ( Switzerland ) in the off-season often merely as coaches. When the railways of the former Soviet Union coaches compounds have a relatively high share of the passenger traffic by rail. Due to the often large distances, which may lead to many days of travel time, the time loss falls by maneuvering here less important.

On many routes, the coaches were superseded by the Flügelzugkonzept.

An example of course is the car runs offer D- night. It involves various railway companies together offered D- train - night connections to Eastern Europe. D- night connections from Germany no longer exists: The D train from Berlin to Kiev ( with coaches to Kaliningrad, Lviv, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Simferopol, Kharkiv and Odessa) was set by the IP due to lack of profitability in late 2012. Also, the car driven by the RŽD D- train Berlin - Saratov ( with coaches to Novosibirsk, St. Petersburg, Chelyabinsk and Omsk ) is to be set the timetable change in 2013.

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