Well, a Mk 3 was anywhere between 68 and 74 standard (depending on whether there was luggage/wheelchair space, etc), so say 70 on average. A Voyager is 62 at most (in the non-buffet MS), just 42 in the DMS. So, as the Americans say, if anyone wishes to do the math.
Virgin XC 2+7 HST: 47 first class, 390 standard class
Virgin 221 Super Voyager, as delivered: 26 first class, 220 standard class
Crosscountry 221 Super Voyager, current: 26 first class, 236 standard class
And also, just for comparison:
Virgin XC 7 carriage class 47 hauled mark 2 rake: 26 first class, 348 standard class
Crosscountry 220 Voyager: 26 first class, 174 standard class
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The ICXC/VXC tram buffets were standard class seating and not first IIRC? The hauled sets were certainly load 7 - BSO, 5xTSO, RFB.
Yes that's very much the case, the Crosscountry HSTs had TRSB vehicles, rather than the first class restaurant cars found marshalled in the sets on routes radiating from London. And yeah, load 7 for the loco hauled sets in the formation you have stated...generally..
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If I remember rightly, Saturday day trips to Paignton behind 47s at the turn of the millenium were 7 coaches, the first being a Brake coach (so half a coach of seats) and the last a buffet/ first class one.
Although, on occasions I remember going down the sea wall in a mark3 set, load 9 (?), that had found it's way onto VXC somehow!
Yeah every so often Crosscountry passengers would be treated to a West Coast mark 3 rake on XC services, often with the DVT still attached and tucked behind the loco! I remember travelling down from Newcastle on one such formation. Allocations seemed fairly fluid back then.