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Discover LudwigThe phrase "sleeping car" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to an enclosed railroad car or train car designed in such a way that passengers can sleep in beds or bunks. For example: "My family took a long train ride to our vacation destination, so we decided to book sleeping cars for the overnight journey."
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It consisted of a kitchen and dining car, a sleeping car and two local coaches.
He offered to help upgrade her ticket from a seat to a sleeping car.
"We won't get there in a sleeping car," grumbled Baden-Württemberg's premier, Günther Oettinger.
On Aug. 25, 1925 the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was inaugurated in NY.
We slept in the Bordello, a converted 1956 Pullman sleeping car.
For the less ambitious, or the exhausted, how about a sleeping car?
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But sleeping-car sleep is in a category of its own: your mind rests while your body goes the distance.
A weekly sleeping-car links Istanbul with Aleppo in Syria, through great scenery including a dramatic descent from the Taurus mountains.
The Coast Starlight had two of them: the Sightseer Lounge, open to all passengers, and the Pacific Parlour Car, for sleeping-car passengers.
The wraparound view from the observation car, at the back of the train, seemed less satisfying to her than the view from the sleeping-car window.
PARIS — Her head resting amidst a profusion of roses and other flowers, a young woman was found lying unconscious in a berth of a sleeping-car of the Nord Express on the arrival of that train from Berlin yesterday afternoon.
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