Great seat/window alignment in that second image...(!)
Of course, silly me! Still, those seats look as though they've a decent shape and amount of padding. Appearances can be deceptive but hopefully they'll be fairly comfortable.Come on you should know the primary objective is to squeeze in as many rows of seats as possible, not to provide an arrangement for passenger comfort!
Great seat/window alignment in that second image...(!)
As has been said plenty of times the majority of passengers don't actually care. A seat on a reliable new train is more important than a view.
It's also worth noting passengers complain if they have to have to stand when it appears there's not as many seats as there could be as anyone who's been on a Metrolink M5000 will probably know.
Great seat/window alignment in that second image...(!)
EDIT: Please note the above comment was intended to be tongue-in-cheek, I should've used a smiley though! The real surprise from a PR point-of-view is that they didn't use a photo of a seat with better alignment. Can't imagine Beardy promoting the Pendolinos by tweeting a photo of a seat next to a wall!
I wasn't aware the 331s were getting tables as well as the 195s? Is this for all of the order or just the 4 car units?
Sounds like total nonsense to me. There is other furniture that takes up space - and the gaps between the windows are not the same where there's a door. Other modern trains have managed it.Re window alignment the present spec for priority seats near enough precludes the whole coach being correctly aligned. Those bays will have been off because of the requirement for an airline pair with priority spacing right next to the vestibule.
The 331s are all being built to the same spec rather than having a sub fleet done to Northern Connect standards.
I don't understand that, wouldn't you expect a press photo (assuming that's what this is) to show the best part of the train rather than the worst? Unnecessarily showcasing the worst aligned windows on purpose seems a little odd...Abellio are guilty of the same - possibly they just think people don't care about window alignment any more. Indeed, the photo used for the Abellio EMU mockup shows seats misaligned to a window layout that isn't even the real one - it shows a huge expanse of plastic that the real layout doesn't have, so almost makes it look deliberately worse!
I don't understand that, wouldn't you expect a press photo (assuming that's what this is) to show the best part of the train rather than the worst? Unnecessarily showcasing the worst aligned windows on purpose seems a little odd...