Got on the 11am from Woking (ex Waterloo) to Weymouth yesterday with 2 children. Walked up the carriage, looking for a set of seats across the aisle. None available.
Got to the middle of the carriage where there are two tables with two plus two facing seating.
Table on the left had a woman next to the window with her bag on the aisle seat, and diagonally opposite her another woman in the aisle.
Table on the right had a man slumped with his head on the table in the aisle as if sleeping and/or drunk with a large holdall occupying both the opposite seats. I prodded him and asked him to move the bag. So he moved it so it blocked the whole of the left half of the table, and immediately put his head back on the other half the table and closed his eyes. Sat in the seats with my daughter where his bag had been and told my son to sit on the seat with the lady's bag across the aisle. She moved it.
At Southampton Airport Parkway the other lady got off, so we all 3 went to sit on the table on that side as it wasn't very comfortable sitting opposite this 'sleeping' man with his enormous bag (which would have fitted in the overhead luggage space). At Southampton Central the train emptied considerably and this point the 'sleeping' man realised that nobody was going to take his 4 seats any more, and he sat up and read a newspaper.
Didn't see a guard but would hope he would have told this man where to stow his bag, doubt it somehow though.
Got to the middle of the carriage where there are two tables with two plus two facing seating.
Table on the left had a woman next to the window with her bag on the aisle seat, and diagonally opposite her another woman in the aisle.
Table on the right had a man slumped with his head on the table in the aisle as if sleeping and/or drunk with a large holdall occupying both the opposite seats. I prodded him and asked him to move the bag. So he moved it so it blocked the whole of the left half of the table, and immediately put his head back on the other half the table and closed his eyes. Sat in the seats with my daughter where his bag had been and told my son to sit on the seat with the lady's bag across the aisle. She moved it.
At Southampton Airport Parkway the other lady got off, so we all 3 went to sit on the table on that side as it wasn't very comfortable sitting opposite this 'sleeping' man with his enormous bag (which would have fitted in the overhead luggage space). At Southampton Central the train emptied considerably and this point the 'sleeping' man realised that nobody was going to take his 4 seats any more, and he sat up and read a newspaper.
Didn't see a guard but would hope he would have told this man where to stow his bag, doubt it somehow though.