That would be amazing!

Its quite sobering to realise that many of you havnt and might feel like asking this question

it's pretty amazing that they actually used to sort the mail whilst moving. That's probably pretty difficult. I think that's better and more interesting than all science, or art; men, on trains, that're moving, sorting mail. Briliant.

had them until a few years ago. Used to be a few first class with a second class one at the end...certainly in the early 90s.

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in italy.

i also went on a sleeper train from edinburgh to london. that was basically the best thing ever.

but I think they're probably all gone now. I think the last ones were probably in service on the North London Line back in the days when it ran on the old stock that no one else would touch. After all, it allowed people from Hackney to get to Kilburn and vice-versa, so it was never seen as a transport priority.

its amazing fun
when you go throught a tunnel and its pitch black you all have to get up and change seats :D
yayayayayayayayyy

from St Pancras to Moutiers next April.

I very much doubt it will have compartments unfortunately, although it does have an all night disco carriage. Fully soundproofed apparently.

Hmmmmmmm

used to have them. lovely.

I've never seen one. Do any of them still have that thing where you get on at the back, what John Cleese stands on, and that.

A man gets onto a train, and after trying, and failing, to find a compartment of his own, he settles into a seat in a compartment occupied by a single elderly lady.
As the train pulls out of the station the lady opens up her bag and pulls out a bible, opens it at a bookmarked page and starts reading. The two of them sit there in silence until the train pulls into the next station, when the lady closes up her book and puts it back in her bag. She remains seated though, and does nothing until the train pulls away again and she opens up her bag, pulls out the bible, opens it at the bookmarked page and starts reading again. At the next station, the lady closes up her book and puts it back in her bag again. Again, she remains seated, and does nothing until the train pulls away and she opens up her bag, pulls out the bible, opens it at the bookmarked page and starts reading. By this point the man is very curious and so he leans across and politely asks, “Excuse me, but why do you put your bible away in your bag when we pull into a station?”
The elderly lady looks up, marks her position with her finger and replies, “Why don’t you just fuck off?”

it's 6 to compartment; 3 couchettes either side to sleep on, then during the day you fold down the middle one on each side to create a bench type seat for the people in the carriage.

Also the Berlin to Prague train had compartments like you're on about; again 6 seater but proper seats as it wasn't a sleeper train. It goes along a dead pretty route too; into Dresden then following various river valleys with vast cliffs along until you reach some rolling Czech countryside which continues, with the occasional interruption from Soviet Republic era factories which are a bit grim, all the way into Prague.

Oh and it's only about £130 for a 5 days travel in 10 inter-rail pass, so you could easily construct a journey starting in Boulogne (it's the cheapest ferry crossing at only £7) and ending up in Prague with a few stops along the way.