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Nov09
Double deck trains in 1904
I was fascinated to see a picture of a Russian double-deck passenger carriage built in 1904. Is this the first double deck passenger coach?
(And please note that my first law of railway history states that, "Nothing was the first anything" - because whenever you find a well-known first, there was usually something similar before it!).
The reference is in the magazine, Railvolution, issue 4/09. Page 34 has an article on the Tver Carriage Works, and an illustration of a 1904 double deck passenger coach. It had external steps up to the top level, and a top-deck inter-car gangway.
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