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English translation: conductor's/train attendant's coach/car/van

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German term or phrase:	Begleiterwagen
English translation:	conductor's/train attendant's coach/car/van
Entered by:	davidgreen

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06:55 Sep 22, 2004

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German term or phrase: Begleiterwagen

By the way, I don't believe it's Begleitwagen (caboose):

Die verwendeten Wagen untergliedern sich in folgende Wagentypen mit den aufgeführten Merkmalen:
1. Klasse (klimatisiert)
Sitzwagen Großraum
Sitzwagen Abteil
Bereich für Bordrestaurant
Schlafwagen (Nachtverbindung)
2. Klasse (klimatisiert)
Sitzwagen Großraum
Sitzwagen Abteil zum Teil als Liegewagen nutzbar
3. Klasse (nicht klimatisiert)
Sitzwagen Großraum z.T. mit Mehrzweckbereichen für Traglasten
Gepäck- und *Begleiterwagen*

The cars used are subdivided into the following types with the features listed:

First class (air-conditioned)
Large capacity seating car
Seating car compartment
Area for onboard restaurant
Sleeping car (night connection)

Second class (air-conditioned)
Large capacity seating car
Seating car compartment in part useful as a couchette coach

Third Class (not air-conditioned)
Large capacity seating car currently with Multipurpose areas for limit loads

Luggage and *Begleiterwagen*

davidgreen

(luggage and) train attendant's coach

Explanation:
by the way, there are a lot of "funnies" in your list: Grossraumwagen are those open coaches with central aisle/corridor and the Sitzwagen Abteil is a compartment coach. The distinction is between the fact of having compartments and not having them. It is not a capacity issue.

Open plan coach
Compartment coach
Restaurant area - it has to be "on board" by definition!

partly USABLE (not "useful" as a couchette coach....

I could continue but these are separate questions

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Note added at 2004-09-22 08:45:30 (GMT)
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van is indeed better than coach here - mental blockage!

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Local time: 10:59

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Thanks, I'd travel by train with you any day!
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4 +1	Conductor's car	David Moore
4	(luggage and) train attendant's coach	xxxCMJ_Trans

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(luggage and) train attendant's coach

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Thanks, I'd travel by train with you any day!

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peer agreement (net): +1

Conductor's car

Explanation:
I'm pretty sure this would be for the "Zugbegleiter", or a conductor. It probably also has baggage or parcels space, but I just don't know the usual practice in the USA.

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Note added at 1 hr 33 mins (2004-09-22 08:28:41 GMT)
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These are not AFAIK still used on BR, but when they were, the carriage would have been known as the \"guard\'s van\" or \"brake van\", which ALSO applied to passenger trains, and would also have had capacity for parcels - which we also no longer carry on passenger trains in the same way we did all those years ago. Today, the \"train conductor\" has his own \"conductor\'s compartment\".

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