Sleeping car

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The sleeping car or sleeper (often wagon-lit) is a railway passenger car that can accommodate all passengers in beds of one kind or another, for the purpose of sleeping. George Pullman was the American innovator of the sleeper car.^{[citation needed]}

The first such cars saw sporadic use on American and English railways in the 1830s; they could be configured for coach seating during the day.