JSC Russian Railways does everything possible to travel passengers as comfortable as possible. The modern sedentary cars are fully updated by landing places. There are no longer those wooden shops, after which the back hurts, and the upper part of the legs. Today, such cars are more like an aircraft salon or long-distance communications bus. Instead of hard seats are soft armchairs equipped with armrests. The main advantage is a long distance between the rows, allowing you to stretch your legs and deviate with the back back.

Features of location of seats

The numbering of places should be the principle: closer to the central part - which are vigorous, in the window openings - odd. Over the seats there are luggage shelves. On the back of a neighbor's chair, sitting ahead, a folding table is mounted. Also in most cars there are 2 bathrooms.

The uniform seats location scheme is not provided, all wagons provide for various equipment, number and placement of places.

Buying a ticket to a sedentary car will be appropriate if we are talking about a trip for a short distance, the duration of which does not exceed several hours. Similar transportations in the areas of Moscow-Saint Petersburg, Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod are very popular.

Benefits

In long-distance trains, the seats in sedentary cars are sold at very attractive prices that are significantly cheaper than a reserved seat and the more coupe. These are their main advantage. But in trains, which are considered branded speed ("Sapsan", "Swallow", "Strege", etc.) to save on the journey will not work. The reserved sequarters of this area will be cheaper than the sedentary express place, but then the time for the trip will be needed more.

For example, the same "Sapsan" is rapidly gaining speed up to 250km / h and overcomes the whole path of Moscow-Peter in just 4 hours, while the usual composition will be needed twicest. This nuance is very comforting business people for whom personal time is more expensive than money. Therefore, express has a separate coupe where you can negotiate.

Classes

Driving comfort in every train is different and depends not only on the direction, but also from the class to which the car belongs. FPK shares them to three:

1C - the highest, first class. In total, there are no more than 48 places in such wagons, which gives more free space. Seats are standing in 3 rows, there are tables, air conditioners and a TV under the ceiling. The backs can be thrown into almost the semi-lying state. The fare includes food and hygienic accessories.

2C - second class of comfort. Here the places are already more - up to 68, the chairs are in 4 rows. Air conditioning and the folding tables are not everywhere.

3C - the third class, which is also called "Economy". The least comfortable, but at the same time the cheapest class in which there is no TV and the system, air-conditioning air. In total, more than 68 passengers can go.

Features

Trains Nos. 801-898 are equipped with wagons of the same sedentary classes, but the level of convenience in them is significantly lower. For example, in each class there is a larger number of places, in the first - up to 60. And the third class is at all similar to the usual train because of the three-bedroom shops that stand here instead of chairs with armrests.

Some routes run sedentary trains with two floors, in which there are additionally sockets in the wagons, and the situation itself is much more pleasant than in single-storey wagons. Although, the fare can be significantly lower than in many branded express.

Unlike seating cars in high-speed trains, special seats are much more convenient. They may have additional options that ensure the convenience of passengers: wireless internet, comfortable footrest, leather upholstery chairs, the ability to change the direction of movement by turning the seating. And in this train, as "Allegro", which connects Helsinki and St. Petersburg, young passengers will be able to play the children's room.

The branded "Swallows" accelerates to 160 km / h and it is used for transportation for short distances with a duration of a trip no more than four hours. Most often, "swallow" can be found in the European part of the country. Wagons in such trains are not divided into classes, the seats in them cannot be tilted, and there is only the bathrooms at the beginning and end of the composition. But the cost of a travel document is significantly lower.

It was always interesting for me why some prefer sedentary cars, because the price difference between a placentar and a sedentary car is small? Why go for 21 hours sitting, when you can almost for the same price to go in a second-class car? I decided to spend a small study, drove in such a car and see everything.

Take the simplest Ural train "Ekaterinburg-Priobye". This is the most popular train. The distance is 1041 km, you can drive or 18 hours 20 minutes, or 21 hours 27 minutes. According to the conductory of the sedentary wagon, most are ride until the prosta himself, it's you can go crazy! Sitting for almost a day!

Take the difference in price. In a reserved seat, a trip would have cost 1067 rubles, and in a sitting car 818 rubles. The difference is only 249 rubles !! Is it worth the difference that you will sleep in 18-21 hours, you can not eat normally?

We sit in the train "Ekaterinburg Priobye".

Tambour train ..

Titan with a retro kettle ...

And here is the car itself. Armchairs are located on the plane, but this is not a plane ...

In the middle of the wagon there are a couple of tables. Someone is lucky, you can eat or put a glass of tea. On the other hand, the tables are located so that you are sitting opposite each other. And a few hours would have to sit and look at someone.

Let's look at the contingent of the sedentary car. A third of the wagon occupied non-Russian men.

Third grandmothers. Probably, for pensioners, the difference in 249 rubles is essential ..

A third of the passengers are just guys and men. I did not see any Russian girl in the car.

One mother with a child was driving in the car. According to her, they drove to the prosta himself !! Mom girl laid down to bed on two places, and he herself put her head on the table and was so slept .. it seems to go with a small child for almost a day in a seating car it is too. You can of course, assume that there were no tickets, and they bought in the sedentary, but the tickets were. And the lower shelves in the placentar were also! Moreover, a child under 5 can go for free. Although all sorts of situations in life of course.

If you go with a child for short distances to 2-3 hours, then such a car is more convenient than trails in that it has a toilet.

Toilet is the easiest, even toilet paper and air freshener.

It turns out all seating cars are divided into 3 classes. We drove in the best grade 1! War down!
In the first class, the armchairs are located two on each side.

In the second grade three chairs.

And in the third grade here are such shops, very narrow and uncomfortable.

For a long time I have not seen such cranes with water. Does anyone else drink from them? What is the water there?

The car is made on the car.

In general, we drove in such a car hour, and went out in the near city. 21 hours Drive in such a car sitting for me was weak! Even for the sake of your favorite blog. Definitely, I better choose a second-class or jewelry car if I go somewhere. Although there was nothing stinking in a seating car, and there was no alkash, anyway, this is the most uncomfortable in the train. Have you traveled in sedentary wagons? Would you go somewhere in such a car?

The newest two-storey composition of the production of the Tver Carriage Plant enclosed on the route "Moscow-Voronezh". This is the first two-storey train with seating places, made in Russia. What unusual - the level of equipment and comfort, without a doubt, surpasses well-known "swallows" and even "Sapsans".

Better than "Sapsan". Overview of the two-storey sedentary train "Moscow-Voronezh"

2. Sitting two-story wagons appearance look much harmonious than those who have already become mundane for passengers coupling two-story. In a sedentary smooth bend between the side wall and the roof, while in the jewelrs on the second floor it was necessary to provide a place for the upper shelf - and in this place an angle was obtained.

3. The new composition will reduce the fare on the route compared to the usual one-storey sedent express, whose place in the schedule will take it. Tickets for the predecessor are from 1135 rubles per second class. The two-storeyman is offered from 704 rubles.

4. For service personnel, this is the first departure on the new composition. The first flight with passengers will go on July 31, and before that time you need to roll the route and check the composition in action.

5. One of the most important features of new wagons - fundamentally new trolleys with damping elements that exclude the shaking of the composition at high speeds.

6. Inside the layout of cars is similar to coupling two-storey, but finishing materials were significantly improved. To distinguish the wagons of the first class from the wagons of the second class in the color of the walls in Tambura. Burgundy in business and purple in economy.

7. Stairs to the first and second floor in the first class car.

8. Head of Train.

9. So the first floor in the first class car. Layout 2 + 1. By the way, the design of interiors was developed by the Italians - the world famous company ITALDESIGN GIUGIARO. The same guys designed the Salons of Italian trains Pendolino and participated in the creation of Volkswagen Golf.

10. Each chair has its own electrical outlet. In fact, in the first-class wagons for each passenger, there are at least 2 outlets because ...

11. All chairs in first-class wagons can be deployed 180 degrees. And outlets are duplicated on both sides of the base. Journalists are studying the mechanism of turning the seats and discuss an alternative when the chairs are turned overlooking the window.

12. Chairs can rotate 180 degrees. Moreover, you can turn any chair in a row (for turning double chairs, this operation must be started with extreme pair). Armchairs are very comfortable and comfortable. You can not only tilt the back, but also push the seat cushion!

13. The second floor is completely identical to the first, with the exception of a different type of window. Height in the passage is a huge stock. Left and right on both floors for luggage.

14. Toilet that can be used at any time. In every car they are two. On the door, the two-color toilet employment indicator.

15. Also in the first-class car there is a separate double sedentary compartment with a large TV.

16. In first-class wagons, there is also an optional scattered backlight on the ceiling.

17. Test flight, in the process is being controlled by the performance of all nodes and the final setting of equipment of each carrion.

18. The second-class wagon has minimal differences. The main difference in the absence of a separate coupe (instead of it an additional luggage compartment). Everything else is almost identical.

19. First floor of a second-class car. Layout 2 + 2. Unusual combination of bright orange and dark gray upholstery.

20. What is the second-class wagon amazing? There are no less comfortable seats with the possibility of adjusting both the tilt of the back and the length of the pillow (the foreground armchair has a pillow extended and the back of the back).

21. Also in second-class wagons installed apparatuses with snacks and drinks (in the first-class wagons, hot meals are included in the price).

22. Staircase on the second floor. In the corner cooler with hot and cold water.

23. Second floor of the second-class car. Everything, like on the first floor, with the exception of the view from the window.

24. On all windows double curtains. One for partial light absorption, the other - for complete.

25. For the first time in Russia - each second-class passenger has its own Personal Electric socket on 220 volts. In addition, the train will be free Wifi. From single complaints - this is a poor coverage of cellular communication on the route of movement, as well as very shielded wagons. A regular WiFi with a multisime router, most likely, will solve the problem with Internet access, and the voice communication should be calculated only next to the settlements.

26. Additional luggage shelf on the second floor. Niche below is a passage to the first floor.

27. The composition on the tests: in all cars, except for two, there is a ballast in the form of sand bags to simulate a real load.

28. Wagon control panel. Here and pin with video surveillance cameras.

29. And full control of the entire electrician, ranging from lighting and ending with heating / air conditioning. All control is conducted from the touch screen.

30. The path from Moscow to Voronezh took 6 hours of 35 minutes. This composition will be the fastest on this route.

31. Presentation of the composition at the station Voronezh-1.

32. And now back to Moscow.

The most important advantage of the new composition is the price. The minimum cost of the ticket (subject to purchase in 45 days before departure) in the second-class car will be 704 rubles, and in the first-class carriage - 1245 rubles (including hot meals). In the fall, in accordance with the seasonal coefficient, the cost will be even lower.

In general, it is not even believed that in Russia they made such a modern and comfortable train. I am impressed, and you?

A thousand years have not traveled on sedentary trains. It always seemed to me that we enjoy this vehicle completely okolizing personality, therefore the quality provided in such trains is appropriate. What was my surprise when I found out that the sedentary could be very comfortable.

Here is such a clean and new caught car:

Together with bloggers denisanikin. , dJHOOLIGANTK. , nadi_gourmet. , ronny_caramel and igor_n_solovev We found themselves in this campaign car, planning our superacted movements. Returning to the past Saturday from Samara, we very much wanted to go to Syzran to see the local Kremlin, so we re-rewound their route and instead of calm ammunition in the coupe to Saratov sat on the Day Express, heading to Penza.

Met us, actually, these are the chairs:

Soft such, with a headrest, and, of course, descending. In a word - do not compare with the bus. There is even disposable (clean, I checked) capes for the head, because everything is civilized and aesthetic. On the left armrest - the sound control unit. If you have headphones, you can stick them into a standard 3.5 mm socket and listen one of 6 sound channels to choose from. One of the channels broadcast the sound of the series, which was shown on the screens in the car. The rest was music. An unusual option, especially when you used to ride at pre-revolutionary cars.

And here are the screens in the car:

Here and the tables are folded, and the legs have where to pull out. I repeat, was very surprised that the sedentary train could be so comfortable.

Deciding in full to remove comfort, leaning back and tristed. And Denis read the Syzran's lullaby card, which he grabbed for free at the tourist stand of Kazan train station:

The coolest in this train is sockets. Thank you, Railways that in the 21st century you started to do them:

Well, the most important is toilets. There are modern biocabins that can be used at any time, and they look very and very civilized.

I only saw such toilets in two-storey cars:

For comparison, the toilet in the usual train joem, on which we went to Samara, looked like this:

The road from Samara to Syzran lasted 1:40. Tickets for such a seating car stand from 400 with something rubles. We sat and compared this train with a swallow, and realized that it was heaven and earth. I will tell you how a man who enjoyed the swallow almost every day during the Olympic Games in Sochi. This train is out of competition for comfort. Although not so high-speed.

After 1:40, we were already in Syzran City:

8 passengers working out rosettes and paper towels in the toilet. A sedent car train Vologda - Moscow was not so bad as his "colleagues", who are in our city passage. Cons, of course, were found (these are Russian Railways, baby!), But at the price of 542 rubles 30 kopecks for a ticket, they can be stoically - but sitting - endure

Traveling Paphos - at some point I was even frightened, which will include Gazmanov, as they do on the Leningrad Station in honor of the arrival of Sapsana. Still from the first platform, and from the first journey, not every composition is sent. From the 129th of such a surprise expect to last: the train is not a corporate, there even in the jewelry car of the hole on the street instead of the toilet, old seats, old lighting, old wall cover, old everything. But the path is the first. Fortunately, it cost without Gazmanov (the songs turned on later).

2C - class of a sedentary train train number 129y. Marking "2C" hints that there is air conditioning on board

My wagon for the poor is the only one in the following: the rest of the second-class and coupling. Probably, to pick up the owners of the cheapest tickets, the carriage of the proud number 1 and "parked" exactly opposite the exit from the station. In addition, near the wagon number 1 there was no queue, and near the rest were. I was inside so quickly that I did not have time to feel frost. It was warm and clean.

A sedentary car holds a crowd of the people (person 60), however, we, his passengers, were moved to the pool. The remaining wagons seem to be stronger.

In №1 "Plazittniki" went to the toilet, so as not to stand in the queue. Toilet bowl - a hole in the floor, but water flowed from the washbasin, and a roll of paper towels hung on the wall. On the approaches to settlements and during stops, the cabin was not closed (thanks!).

8 hours 55 minutes - time on the road (branded trains spend 20 - 50 minutes less, but there are no seating cars)

More "placegarters" charged our phones - the outlets worked with a bang. I do not know how much of all of them, but two are for sure: near the boiler with water opposite the coupe of the conductors and above the place number 7. Employed detail: In a car where sockets work, blinds do not work on the windows. At least, not all work.

In a boiler, since I walked about him, there was water. Hot. Raw bikes or terafl (winter, cold) - spit times. In addition, the conduits were offered tea, coffee and chocolates. This is already for money, but everything is too pleasant.

In general, they are conductors - turned out to be very polite and amiable.

Departure from Vologda at 21.12 on Thursdays until 10.12.2015 (the train goes irregularly)

At this place was remembered by the sedentary wagon of the Vorkuta train, which is also in Moscow. If you drove, you guess that these are not the most pleasant memories. Passengers occupy any places, although in the tickets specified specific, the conductor to do everything and is generally well, if he is not drunk; Duchot, people are full, hopelessness.

And here - approx.

53 minutes - the longest parking (Danilov, arrival at 23.32). Total intermediate stops 5

What's the catch? I think, in two faces of the Caucasian nationality, Vasya, who occupied the most trumps: No. 1 (odd - at the window) and No. 2. Trumps, because there you can pull the legs. Straight to pull out! And there is a comfortable table, attached to the wall.

These two scored the shelves with a bag of suitcases, they spoke loudly on the incomprehensible language and in a circle included "Woman, I'm not dancing" on the phone, "no one writes to the Colonel" and something Arabic. In Yaroslavl, they came out.

But the man was gone 20. Basically, guys and girls are 20 - 30 years old, men and women a little over 50. No tear of children, insane old men and chicken grill eaters ahead with boiled eggs and pickled cucumbers. Isn't Charm?

Somewhere after 4 hours there was Moscow.