{{Short description|Type of railway passenger coach}} [[File:Indonesian's New Compartment Suites Train (T1 0 08 02 ML).jpg|thumb|An Indonesian compartment suite coach for ''Bima'', ''Argo Semeru'', ''Argo Bromo Anggrek'', and ''Sangkuriang'' Train, which is considered as "corridor coach", rather than "compartment coach"]] thumb|280px|Diagram of a French corridor coach (SNCF A9u) A '''corridor coach''' is a type of railway passenger coach divided into compartments and having a corridor down one side of the coach to allow free movement along the train and between compartments.{{citation needed|date=February 2020}}
The idea of connecting railway coaches by means of an interior corridor and exterior platform at each end dates to at least 1865, when a patent was obtained by William Chubb and Solomon Fry of Bristol.<ref>{{cite magazine |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=January 1938 |title=Communication Between Carriages |magazine=London & North Eastern Railway Magazine |volume=28 |issue=1 |location=London |publisher=London & North Eastern Railway |page=63}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Woodcroft |first=Bennet |author-link=Bennet Woodcroft |date=1866 |chapter=Chubb. Fry. 12th May 1865. 1322 |title=Chronological Index of Patents Applied For and Patents Granted, For the Year 1865 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433063027613&seq=97 |location=London |publisher=Office of the Commissioners for Patents and Inventions |page=91 |via=HathiTrust}}</ref> This concept was first applied in Britain around the start of the 20th century, because the advent of dining cars made it advantageous to enable passengers to move down the length of a train. This was achieved by linking the corridors of adjacent coaches using a "corridor connector".<ref>http://www.bluebell-railway.co.uk/bluebell/car_fs1.html ''The Development of the British Railway Carriage'', accessed on 23 May 09.</ref> The "Standard Corridor" thus became one of the standard mid-20th century designs of railway carriage.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.barrowmoremrg.co.uk/BRBDocuments/Diagram_Book_200_for_issue.pdf|title=British Railways Vehicle Diagram Book 200 for Loco Hauled Coaches|work=British Railways Board|date=July 1982|access-date=2020-02-08|archive-date=2016-12-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220094704/http://www.barrowmoremrg.co.uk/BRBDocuments/Diagram_Book_200_for_issue.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
The corridor coach was known on the European continent as the ''American system'' or ''American coach'' in the early 1900s.<ref>Konrad, Emil (1984). ''Die Reisezugwagen der deutschen Länderbahnen'', Vol. 2: ''Bayern, Württemberg, Baden'', Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart, p. 12. {{ISBN|3-440-05327-X}}.</ref><ref>von Waldegg, Edmund Heusinger (1870). ''Handbuch für Specialle Eisenbahn-technik'', Vol. 2, Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig, p.20.</ref>
==See also== * British Rail coach type codes * Corridor (rail vehicle) * Soft sleeper
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