Answer the questuons. What new improvements of passenger comfort were in Queen Victoria time?

What new improvements of passenger comfort were in Queen Victoria time?

When were sleeping cars introduced to public?

How did the creation of steel influenced carriage-building?

What examples of passenger s comfort do modern carriages have?

What new material was put into wide usage in 1930?

4.Give Ukrainian equivalents to the following words and expressions on the text:

gangway

royal passengers

to arrange in compartments

sleeping saloon

couch body construction

high-speed train

all-metal couches

to launch a train

pair of six-wheel saloons

had inter-coach gangways

a pantry

arranged in compartments

the sleeping saloon did not come into wide use

carriages increased in size, particularly in length…

coach body construction

designers turned their attention to all-metal coaches.

5.Complete the sentences:

Queen Victoria's pair of six-wheel saloons …

They were not always arranged...

Nevertheless, the sleeping …

By the end of the 1930s steel was being

It has a body length of about …

The other important development …

The first high-speed train was…

Each train consists of eight carriages: one…

Supplementary tasks:

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