Mixed passenger carriage Carriage II/III class No. 315

Two in One

This state-type car was built at the Dvigatel Carriage Works in Reval (now Tallinn) for the state-owned Transbaikal Railway in 1900. It is a mixed car, which means that it contains compartments of different levels of comfort.

Mixed cars had second- and third-class compartments with different levels of comfort.

This car has second-class (soft-seated) and third-class (hard-seated) compartments.

Moving Away from Four Axles

Pullman Trucks

From 1901, high numbers of cars with Pullman trucks and a body length of 18 m were ordered. These gradually replaced the earlier four-axle cars.

Parameters

Technical
specifications

Year of issue: 1899–1900
Manufacturer: “Dvigatel” (Revel, Tallinn)
Customer: State Railways
Type of car type: II / III class mixed
Number of axles: 4
Number of 2nd class day seats: 15
Number of 2nd class night seats: 10
Number of 3rd class day seats: 16
Number of 3rd class night seats: 10
Car length on buffers, mm: 16 350
Car length by frame, mm: 15 160
Body outside width, mm: 3 140
Bogie kingpin base, mm: 9 800
Height from floor level to roof top, mm: 2 900
Heating: Watery
Lighting: Candlestick
Ventilation: Natural: by means of roof mounted deflectors
Linkage suspension: Single, Siberian type bogie

Drawings
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History

Chronology

1900 Four-axle mixed second-/third-class car no. 315 is built at the Dvigatel Carriage Works in Reval (now Tallinn) for the state-owned Transbaikal Railway.
1901 High numbers of cars with Pullman trucks are ordered by the Ministry of Railways. These gradually replace the earlier four-axle cars.
1996 Four-axle mixed second-/third-class car no. 315 comes to the museum from Track Laying Machine Station No. 29 (Toskovo) of the Oktyabrskaya Railway.
2016 Car no. 315 was restored during repair work undertaken by ARS-M LLC.