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Re: OT: Not the Orient Express

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by: Arthur Figgis - Mon, 24 May 2021 17:14 UTC

On 21/05/2021 19:58, bob wrote:
> On 2021-05-21 14:52:39 +0000, Marc Van Dyck said:
>
>> Marland wrote :

>> Couchettes in continental europe have never been gender-segregated.
>> It was only the case with sleepers. So there is no reason to believe
>> that this was an error.
>
> Perhaps not in the farther away past, but on one occasion I took the old
> Zürich-Amsterdam sleeper in the period after the old CityNightLine
> coalition unravelled and DB was running things, I happened to run into a
> female friend on the train one night, and she was travelling in a
> women-only couchette compartment, so they were definitely a thing at
> that point. I have no idea when that began or whether it still exists,
> but they have been a thing in relatively recent times.

I think some operators have(/had) mostly mixed compartmments plus one
female-only one frr passengers wanting one. I've also come across it on
day trains in eastern Europe.

--
Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK

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