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FIRST CLASS CAR
Talgo First Class cars basically consist of the following areas and principal elements:

• An entrance vestibule, with two automatic entrance doors, one at each side.
• A passenger cabin with 29 seats (42 inch seat-pitch), arranged in ten rows, and four TV screens installed in the ceiling.
• A zone located between the vestibule and the passenger cabin in which the toilet and luggage storage are located. The toilet is accessible via the vestibule.
• A service passage zone to the contiguous car adjacent to the vestibule hosts three cupboards in which the pneumatic and brake equipment, the regulation and control facility, and the switchgear for the car's electrical facility are installed. These cupboards are accessible from the vestibule.
• Each row has three seats, two forming a pair on one side of the corridor and the other being independent. The row situated next to the passage zone to the contiguous car has only one seat on either side of the corridor.
• One of the arms of each seat is installed with an individual audio console and the switch for the reading light.
• All seats are reclining and those of the eight central rows are also rotating.
• At the end of the passenger cabin, next to the vestibule, there is a luggage storage area with shelves for suitcases and packages. In this area, there is also a trash receptacle.
• On each side of the car, above the windows and along the length of the cabin, a baggage shelf is fitted at a height of 72.04 inches (1830 mm.), with a transverse inclination of 7°;, a depth of 18.11 inches (460 mm.), and free height of 16.53 inches (420 mm.) for the storage of luggage and other items.
• Individual reading lights are installed underneath the luggage rack.
• Individual outlets are installed in each row for laptop computers and other devices.
• The floor surface is fully carpeted. The side walls are covered with phenol resin sheets or similar material.
• The toilet is equipped with a washbasin with an electric tap and operation by photocell, a vacuum-empty toilet, a small changing folding table, a mirror, a towel holder, waste paper basket, toilet paper holder, etc.
• The HVAC equipment, as well as the air distribution pipes, the water and compressed air tanks and the waste tank, are installed underneath the body frame.
• The waste tank is fitted with a pipe for suction flushing, with outlets on each side of the car, and also a lower sump, sealed by a manually operated valve to allow emptying by gravity.
• The normal lighting for the cabin is carried out with indirect light made up of a row of fluorescent tubes on each side and two in the central part of the ceiling. The vestibule is lit with halogen lights and fluorescent tubes. The lavatory is equipped with fluorescent tubes. The lighting in the service passage zone is with halogen lamps.

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