Both first- and second-class coaches have telephones, one in each car.
They sat side by side in a second-class coach of the Paris Metro.
All trains had first- and second-class coaches.
It had three first-class and two second-class coaches.
The plain second-class coaches are generally uncrowded.
During the 1970s the introduction of second-class coaches in intercities was proposed and studied resulting in the IC79 project.
On 25 May 1979 the second-class coaches were added to the train and the service was continued as D-Zug.
The class PBA coaches were partly converted to second-class coaches.
At the end of four or five hours one would have been hard pressed to illustrate the difference between a second-class coach and a cattlecar.
But the second-class coaches are cheap: the 740-mile trip between New Delhi and Bombay can cost as little as $20.