Railroad carriage question

[Amy Z]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., pengolodh_sc at y... wrote:
> I am trying to find some information on British standard passenger-
> carriages <snip>  The reason I am asking, has to do 
> with a pet theory I have about the Hogwarts Express, but I need to 
> control it before I release it on an unsuspecting audience over on 
> the HPfGU-list.

Sorry, I can't help you, but I have a question about railway carriages 
too--maybe it's the same as yours.  How many people fit into one?  And 
are they the way I'm picturing them:  you enter from the corridor and 
two benches are facing each other, one on your left, one on your 
right, each comfortably seating perhaps 3 or 4?  With racks overhead? 
 And only one door in?

For a while, I pictured the compartments on the HE as Amtrak-type 
cars, i.e. over thirty feet long, with an aisle down the middle 
leading to a door at each end, and with rows of seats something like 
an airplane's (though with some facing backwards and a few facing into 
the compartment).  Needless to say, this didn't fit with the 
descriptions.  I don't know why it took me so long to realize that 
they had to be what I think of as old-fashioned compartments.

Amy Z

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