5S26 declared a failure just now at Glasgow, awaiting rescue loco.
Rescued by 92043.
5S26 declared a failure just now at Glasgow, awaiting rescue loco.
I didn't, last week in the accessible room. There were some instructions on how to e.g. stow the upper bunk or extend the blasted sofa back on the bottom one, in a notice on a wall inside the wardrobe.If I remember correctly you get such an instruction book on the refurbished Night Riviera.
Wow, there's the not-at-all-joined-up railway in full customer-unfriendly mode. I can't believe anyone seriously suggested the XC route, which wouldn't get you to Paddington until 13:52 (13:37 if you made a 3 minute connection at Reading). What use is that to someone who needed to be in London at 8 a.m.? Plus by that time there will have been several earlier arrivals via the ECML.
Even a full refund wouldn't really compensate anyone whose planned day has been ruined.
Yes that's exactly what happened. Just as I started to scrabble around to find the switch it went off again.
In the Mk3, the switch is a physical switch similar to what you'd find at home. So if it's "Off" there's a physical disconnection on the lighting circuit (or perhaps on a control circuit on a train).
The Mk5 "switch" is a button similar to what you'd find on a smart socket or smart lightswitch at home. I imagine when you switch the light off, you're actually sending a signal to a computer somewhere to "switch this light into the opposite of its current state". Hence if the computer is reset for any reason I can understand why all equipment might be briefly returned to some default state before it loads and applies the last configuration. I guess light on is a fail safe condition but it would be nice if they found a way to avoid it happening during a routine shunt.
The light switch on the Night Riviera Sleeper isn't illuminated.As to the previously mentioned light on the light switch that can't be turned off - that's a legal requirement, and yes it has to be white; they aren't allowed to use red or any other colour.
Do you think they would read it or would it be a waste of my time?
The light around the switch does cast a surprising amount of light, I wonder if it could be made a bit dimmer?
The light switch on the Night Riviera Sleeper isn't illuminated.
Probably not an issue because the door buttons are brighter than the Mastermind all-time champion, enough to see the light switch across the room.
However, your hotel room isn't going 80+mph, unless you have had one too many that is!Strange that there’s seemingly no “legal requirement” for light switches in hotels to be brightly illuminated at all times...
Strange that there’s seemingly no “legal requirement” for light switches in hotels to be brightly illuminated at all times...
I think there is, now, for the main light switch. Only for new builds, obviously.
Agreed. And as ever Roadie will tell you, if gaffer tape doesn’t fix it, you’re not using enough gaffer tape.Best take some gaffer tape with me, then...
To tape over your eyes to keep the light out? Other forms of eye shade are available.Best take some gaffer tape with me, then...
On the Night Riviera, I just hung a T-shirt over it and the back of my Wheelchair, did the job nicelyBest take some gaffer tape with me, then...
Yes, if you’re in a Club Room as it’s (sort of) the equivalent of First Class on the Mk3s. It’s in a cardboard bag with your earphones, bottle of water, and toiletries from Arran Aromatics. Same collection as on the Mk3’s, and does the job nicely.Are blindfolds still provided in the berths/rooms on the new stock like they were on the Mk IIIs?
It's not the shunting at fort william that it would complicate (all that happens there is that the loco runs round) but the shunting at edinburgh.Wheelchair users in the accessible cabin (Mk 3) / double accessible cabin (Mk 5) on the Fort William Sleeper don't have access to the lounge car between London and Edinburgh because the train would be too long if the Fort William section had its own lounge car. So passengers share the Aberdeen lounge car between Edinburgh and London. An extra lounge car and seated car are added for the Fort William to Edinburgh section. This means Fort William section seated passengers are decanted onto the platform at Edinburgh and have to swap carriages after shunting. Also, the Fort William coaches not having their own lounge car between Edinburgh and London, Fort William customers use the Aberdeen lounge car. But they have to walk through all the Aberdeen sleeper coaches to get to it. This is obviously not accessible to wheelchair users. The result is that the Fort William sleeper is the only Caledonian sleeper train which has no accessible cabins with lounge access between London and Edinburgh.
I'm wondering if there are logistical problems with the seemingly simple solution: to put the Aberdeen lounge car at the other end of the Aberdeen section, with the Aberdeen accessible sleeper coach next to it on one side and the Fort William accessible sleeper coach next to it on the other. So both accessible sleeper coaches are next to it and wheelchair users from either can use the lounge.
I suspect there are physical limitations in the lounge cars such that wheelchair users can only get into the lounge from one end, also that it would make the logistics of shunting at Fort William logistically difficult or impossible, but I don't know so thought would ask.
The other thought is: is it potentially possible for a wheelchair user to get on the Aberdeen lounge car at 2030 in London, have a meal and a whisky then transfer to the Fort William sleeper car via Watford station platform or Crewe station platform? Have staff ready with two ramps, one at the lounge car and one at the sleeper car, and use the two or four minute dwell respectively to get off, down the platform and on again.
I booked the northbound Fort William sleeper without knowing that there's no access to the lounge car until Edinburgh. (Until a couple of days ago, the Sleeper website didn't make this clear.) I'm now really disappointed. Sitting in my room on my own with room service doesn't sound the same experience...
In general, are rolling stock connecting doors accessible and compliant with PRM TSI ? Most I can think of would be too narrow or uneven, with the exception of the Class 700 etc.
I would approach them about it though, they always seem very helpful in their customer services.
It's not the shunting at fort william that it would complicate (all that happens there is that the loco runs round) but the shunting at edinburgh.
I suspected this would be the case but didn't know. Oh well, as suspected this was a non-starter of an idea - other stuff about seated passengers having to walk further etc., shunting complexity are I guess not an issue if it doesn't make any difference to accessibility.the corridor at the “other” end of the lounge is no wider than the corridor in the sleeper carriages.
Ignoring the issue of the seated coach - it would mean that, on arrival at Edinburgh, the accessible sleeper coach would be at the 'west' end of the FTW portion, which would mean that the FTW lounge & seats would have to be added onto that end rather than the 'east' end as at present. At the moment, the process of detaching the INV and ABD portions (done with movements from the 'west' end of Waverley) is relatively independent of the process of adding the FTW day coaches (done with movements from/to the 'east' end of Waverley).I’m not sure why it would complicate the shunting. The Aberdeen portion would still be self-contained, just with the lounge in a different place.