What are those rooms you can sit in on trains called?

Question

You know, where it has like the two benches in it, and you can close the doors... Like in Harry Potter... I really need to know what they're called.

Answer 1

I think they're called Pullman cars.

Answer 2

Wolf is almost correct -- the "Harry Potter Car" is an English design. The seats extend along both walls of the cabin, and there is no bed. American sleeper cars have small rooms (AMTRAK calls one a "roomette") with two individual seats facing each other and a flip up table. One one side is a toilet and sink. On the opposite side is a flat plastic area... you can sit there (it isn't very comfortable) but really it is supposed to be a night table. The two seats both lay down to form a bed, and another bed folds into the wall. With the door closed and the beds flipped down, you have your own little (and I do mean LITTLE!) hotel room.

Answer 3

What you see in Harry Potter is an English coach design, we don't have day compartments like that in America.

Pullman is American and they made sleeper cars, which are not what those are.

Answer 4

Sleeper, Compartment, Roomette, et al.

Answer 5

Compartments.

Answer 6

The rooms are called compartments, the coaches are called corridor coaches.