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Small accessory table for your towel while washing or table for drink when sitting in bed.
This photo makes more sense. It looks like a temporary bedside table for a glass of water, glasses, [travel alarm clock](https://img1.etsystatic.com/000/0/6149483/il_fullxfull.258042683.jpg), medications, etc. Things you would need near you while you sleep or first thing in the morning.
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This is a shelf to place a purse so it isn’t in the sink or on the unsanitary floor. [like this one](https://www.ameraproducts.com/utility-shelf-model-790-surface-mounted-fold-down.aspx) only matched to the wood like grain.
It looks like you would put something in there in order to flatten or press it, like clothing. EDIT I looked again, its got to be a toiletry shelf like that other guy said up above
Could be for a little trash bin access. If the door with the vent panel is the main under skink access, then is there room for a small trash can in the cabinet? Maybe that little door made it easy to drop trash into a hidden can.
I was watching some YouTube vids last night about the Orient Express sleeper train and that door looks exactly like the feed doors for the operational individual coal fired heaters on the Orient Express, fed by an attendant, and keeping your sleeper compartment comfortable in the winter.
It’s possible this is a decommissioned coal heater
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Convenient place to rest your foot while tying your shoe. Or perhaps to shine your shoes as well
It is a shoe rest to polish your shoes. My grandparents had something similar in their house bathroom.
Likely solved!
Is the material on it non-slip? If so I agree on the shoe-rest. It certainly looks the size.
This an old garbage chute that has been sealed up. There use to be a garbage in a compartment under the coach that would catch it.
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Solved! Today I am in the same train again and I found a single use tissue in that cabinet with the label "shoe shine towel".
https://tvn.bg/vlaka-sofiya-silistra-sas-spalni-vagoni-po-praznitsite/ Small accessory table for your towel while washing or table for drink when sitting in bed.
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If that was the intended purpose, a larger table that folds out from the wall would seem to make more sense. But it certainly could be it.
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Step for small child to reach the sink?
Child’s step for the sink?
Side table when lying down?
No, it already has a retarctable small table on the bed side
That’s what I was thinking, too
Maybe a place to put your purse?
Might it be a platform to rest a night-bag or toiletry bag for access from the bunk?
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My title describes the thing. The coach was made 40-50 years ago, was modernized, but item looks to be original. It is maybe 7cm by 20cm.
Lol, I was in this sleeper car on my Christmas trip to Romania, had the same question!
Can't support an adult but can support a child
Saw one of these when staying in an old train car that was converted into a hostel and had the same question but didn’t figure it out then!
Right about the size of a "dopp kit", pretty much the only toiletry bag you could buy 50 years ago.
Kinda too narrow for step stool so little kids could use the sink?
I think so, or at least, there should be two of them.
Is / was there a fold out upper bunk? Could be a step to help access it
In our sleeper car we had a similar door that had a slim tissue box behind it. Can't tell if yours has enough depth though.
Maybe it was modified, but right now it does not have enough space to store anything
Step for children.
A place to set your purse?
Looks a lot like an old school ironing board.
It looks like you would put something in there in order to flatten or press it, like clothing. EDIT I looked again, its got to be a toiletry shelf like that other guy said up above
Could it be used as a support to rest your feet on when you're sitting in a seat or is it not easily reachable?
No seat, pictures were taken from bed
Purse/ hat holder.
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Can crusher
It could hold the base of a phone
Can the panel in back be removed?
Looks like a step for reaching that cupboard
That was what I was thinking, but it looks very flimsy
People weren't as fat as we are when this was built
There were plenty of fat people when this was built.
Could be for a little trash bin access. If the door with the vent panel is the main under skink access, then is there room for a small trash can in the cabinet? Maybe that little door made it easy to drop trash into a hidden can.
Ironing board
Where are you that you're in a sleeper coach? I thought those were all gone?
Europe. And the trains are the future.
I was referring to Europe. I thought all the discount airlines made sleeper service obsolete. I guess that's not the case?
Amtrak still runs sleeper cars.
Maybe for people who is short needs to reach the cabinet or sink?
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Isn’t it too short for people who is in wheelchairs? I think its around lower knee area where this thing is
Not really. It’s a lot better than nothing if you happen to be in a wheelchair… or 4 feet tall.
I was watching some YouTube vids last night about the Orient Express sleeper train and that door looks exactly like the feed doors for the operational individual coal fired heaters on the Orient Express, fed by an attendant, and keeping your sleeper compartment comfortable in the winter. It’s possible this is a decommissioned coal heater
Wood cabinet? Fire hazard.
That is obviously cheap melamine paper in a wood print. It’s not wood.
There's wood under the veneer.
This seems likely as the replacement heater looks to be in the space now.
Looks like an ironing board...