In Russia there will be double-decker cars (30 photos) Bashny.Net

Fundamentally new rolling stock, and domestic production - Tver Carriage Works, will appear later this year.
This summer, the company plans to buy 45 cars, their appearance will make ticket prices more flexible and move passengers more comfortable.

Many believe that Russian Railways will first double-decker cars.

However, the double-decker cars for Russian Railways, though gimmick, but not new. The first double-decker cars appeared in Russia before the revolution. Also attempts to make double-decker cars were widespread in the Soviet Union.

On KDPV storey car built before the Revolution Tver Carriage Works.

In prerevolutionary Russia, double-decker cars produced Sormovskaya:

and Tver plant:

There were also two-story suburban "Cuckoo»:

Later, in the Soviet Union in the early 1960s, there were double-decker cars made in GDR. They traveled, mostly between Lviv and Kovel and looked like:

And inside they look like this:

And they looked at what was then the model catalog models:

Based on double-decker cars from the GDR in the USSR were established their double-decker cars, which went between Moscow and Ryazan and Chelyabinsk region:

One of these cars in a ruined state, waiting for scrap metal cutting:

Also in the Soviet Union at the Leningrad Order of the Red Star, Carriage Works them. Yegorov was created storey excursion train, which is now in a museum in Tashkent (full name it can not be a two-story):

A modern double-decker cars, which will soon appear on the Russian railways look like this:

Each car will be equipped with wardrobe, fan and all necessary utensils for tea. These trains will be spent on routes from Moscow to Tula, Voronezh and Smolensk. Black Sea same direction will serve compartment cars with 64 bed-places. For the convenience of passengers in these cars is no luggage rack, and the first floor is lower than conventional trains.

Each car is equipped with a shower and toilet, which would make the long trip comfortable and burdensome. Moreover, the developers have taken care of the disabled: for their convenience, each car has a platform to lift to the second floor. According to experts, such compositions will be twice more capacious than ordinary trains, which will significantly increase ridership on the most popular destinations.

Tver Carriage Works, tasked with producing a new vehicle, will release two types of cars: Economy version and business class. The first provides for 104 seats, luggage racks in salons, as well as a separate room for bulky luggage. Business class cars, in turn, characterized in that on each floor for only 29 seats with built in their back monitors for watching movies.

For more than half a century symbol of London on a par with Big Ben are dabldekery or, more simply, double-decker buses. Now a similar concept of passenger transport can be observed on the Russian railways: 45 cars must ride their first passengers this summer.