Seats in the train. What do they look like?

There is a very persistent error in the fact that seats in the train exist only in common cars, that is, by acquiring seats, you will be forced to go in an ordinary second-class car, only three passengers or even four passengers will sit on each lower shelf. And tickets are sold just like that - there are no places on them, and who was the first to succeed, he at the window sat down. And it can also happen that you have to go and generally standing up. By the way, it's not too much pleasure to go by the window in a common car. It is much more profitable to occupy the top shelf, tickets for which in general in such cars are not sold. But everything depends on the "kindness" of the conductor. If you manage to occupy the top shelf, then in this case you will travel with relative comfort, however, only in a horizontal position.

But, as mentioned above, this is a delusion. In fact, seats in the train are not in general, but in a sitting car, although the general car can also be called sedentary. But it is not about him now. An uninformed passenger in the realities of the railway does not distinguish the usual reserved seat car from the sedentary, but he only needs to climb the steps and enter the car himself, as everything becomes clear. At first glance, it may seem that you made a mistake in the railway station and instead of the railway they got to the bus station, or the railwaymen made a mistake and decorated the interior of the car as a comfortable intercity bus. Yes, very similar.

Seats in the train, the location of which strongly resembles the bus, appeared relatively recently. It is this novelty that is caused by the fact that many consider such cars according to old memory common. The seats are located on either side of the central aisle, two or three at a time. Luggage passengers are folded on special shelves, and the seats themselves, like buses, recline. That is, on the road you can afford to sleep quite comfortably.

Another similarity with the bus is that the so-called "elitism" extends to the seats in the train, that is, there is an unspoken list of priority places that are bought out first. But if in the bus it's mostly places, located in front of the salon and near the window, then the train situation is somewhat different. The number of windows in the car does not correspond to the number of rows of seats, because some of them fall into the inter-window interval. These places are considered the most unpopular. If you buy train tickets online, seats in the train may not correspond to the scheme on the site, so you can not guess and buy just such an uncomfortable place.
However, even buying tickets at the ticket office of the railway does not guarantee a 100% hit. Cashiers may simply not know what type of sedentary car will be attached. Or the car at the last moment will be replaced by another one. And exactly how will sit seats in the train, it is impossible to guess. You can buy tickets and in such a car, where, as in the train, the seats will be located in pairs face to face. And then there will be considered "elite" places that are located in the course of the train.