Talk:Carriage 42

Speaking of "toastrack" carriages, Sydney, N. S. Wales had trams like that in the early days. 06:35, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

Yes. They were fairly common at least on British and British-influenced tramways. (There are still some on the Douglas horse tramway and the Manx Electric.) And on light railways to some extent. Decauville (the pioneer for full scale "kit" railways of usually 600 mm. gauge) had them on his Paris Exhibition line. --IP (talk) 13:13, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

I may not be correct but I have always regarded the term "toast rack" to mean carriages without doors or roof with back to back seating Heritagejim (talk) 16:24, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

I have more often (but not always) seen it referring to such cars with roofs. Or with one-way benches, reversible or not. But usually without doors, yes, in the old days. But nowadays you may not want to run them without adding some kind of doors.

Unless by "back to back seating" you mean longitudinal one like on the Flying Bench – what I have seen called "knifeboard" (~ seating, cars). --IP (talk) 17:16, 12 August 2015 (UTC)