Sleeping car
Railway passenger car with private sleeping berths / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the 1933 film, see Sleeping Car (film).
Not to be confused with Sleeper (car) or Railway sleeper.
The sleeping car or sleeper (often wagon-lit) is a railway passenger car that can accommodate all passengers in beds of one kind or another, for the purpose of sleeping. George Pullman was the American innovator of the sleeper car.[citation needed]
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The first such cars saw sporadic use on American and English railways in the 1830s; they could be configured for coach seating during the day.