sleeping car

English

Alternative forms

• sleeper car

Noun

sleeping car (plural sleeping cars)

1. (rail transport) A railroad car with sleeping facilities for passengers travelling overnight.
   • 1939 November, “Pertinent Paragraphs: The Sleeping Car”, in Railway Magazine, page 360:

     In August 1859, eighty years ago, a sleeping car appeared on the Chicago & Alton Railroad of the United States, a great advance on the primitive facilities previously available.

   • 2024 September 4, David Clough, “All aboard the 'Night Riviera' to Penzance”, in RAIL, number 1017, page 58:

     Today, the 'Night Riviera' is one of only two sleeping car services that survive in the UK.

Translations

a railroad car with sleeping facilities for passengers travelling overnight.

• Bulgarian: спален вагон m (spalen vagon)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 臥舖車 / 卧铺车 (wòpùchē)

• Czech: lůžkový vůz m
• Danish: sovevogn c
• Dutch: slaapwagen (nl) m
• Estonian: magamisvagun (et)
• Finnish: makuuvaunu (fi)
• French: wagon-couchette (fr) m, wagon-lit (fr) m
• German: Schlafwagen (de) m
• Hungarian: hálókocsi (hu)
• Icelandic: svefnvagn m
• Irish: cóiste codlata m
• Italian: vagone letto m
• Japanese: 寝台車 (ja) (しんだいしゃ, shindaisha)
• Korean: 침대차 (chimdaecha)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sovevogn m or f

  Nynorsk: sovevogn f

• Polish: wagon sypialny (pl) m
• Portuguese: vagão-leito m
• Romanian: vagon de dormit (ro) n
• Russian: спа́льный ваго́н (ru) m (spálʹnyj vagón)
• Spanish: vagón litera m, coche cama m, coche dormitorio m
• Swedish: sovvagn (sv) c
• Ukrainian: спа́льний ваго́н m (spálʹnyj vahón)