Rail is rightfully considered the cheapest and safest way to travel long distances. If you look at the statistics, you can easily see that traveling by train is many times safer than traveling by plane or bus. No wonder this mode of transport is very popular.
When going to sea or returning, you will most likely choose between compartment and second-class carriages.
Russian railways also offer tickets for the so-called "sleeping cars" or CB. SV carriages, for the most part, run on foreign routes. A ticket in them is more expensive than in a compartment car (30-40 percent), so they are not particularly in demand by Russian passengers who have chosen a vacation on the Black or Azov Seas.
One of the most difficult tests, especially in summer, during the holiday season, can be a trip in a stuffy hot car, where it is impossible to open the compartment windows. Moreover, to your indignation, suchthe situation - in the next compartment they enjoy the coolness, and you are languishing from the heat, unable to understand in which compartments the windows do not open, and in which they can be lowered.
Let's clear this up. So which compartments don't open windows? Oddly enough, the answer is the same, regardless of whether you chose a reserved seat or a compartment car. If the car is old, without air conditioning, then absolutely all windows in the car should open, except for the side ones.
Besides, those compartments where emergency windows are located are “locked”. In the reserved seat car, these are the third and sixth compartments - emergency exits are located there. The same applies to the compartment car. Windows do not open in compartments 3 and 6.
Pay attention when you buy tickets - these are seats from 9 to 12 and from 21 to 24. These compartments correspond to side seats 49-50 and 43-44.
New cars are equipped with air conditioners and if you are traveling in such a car, then the question of which compartments do not open windows does not arise. The windows don't open at all. Air ventilation is carried out using an air conditioner.
The big disadvantage is that the air conditioning only works when the train is moving. In addition, not all passengers know that the conductor can change the temperature of the supplied air, so there is absolutely no need to freeze at +18 or languish from the heat at +27 degrees Celsius.
The question of which compartments do not open windows is by no means the only one worth considering when preparingtravels. Remember that odd numbers are the bottom shelves, respectively, even numbers are the top ones. The notorious “upper side by the toilet” has number 38. Number 37 is the lower side by the toilet, and it is completely incomprehensible which is more comfortable. The numbering of the side seats starts from the 37th number.
If your height is over 185 cm, then it is better to buy a ticket for the side shelf - otherwise your legs will stick out into the aisle. And in the first and last compartments, in places 1-2 and 35-36, the legs will completely rest against the wall. In this case, the shelf will be shortened by an average of 10 cm. Can you imagine how you have to crouch?
And take care of the safety of your belongings and shoes - if you occupy the top shelf, then place your clothes and shoes on the third. Have a good trip!
