Behaviour of passengers

[RJ21]

So I do believe I have seen most that there is to see from fellow passengers. The group who have been in the pub for what must be all day and are travelling to Manchester Piccadilly onboard 2S63 have posted one of their number into the overhead rack on the 142. Quite how he'll get down I do not know but it'll be amusing to watch. To be honest I am surprised a couple of what look like rusted M8 bolts is carrying the load.

 

[yorksrob]

I must admit, 142 luggage racks don't seem the sturdiest of constructs !

 

[iknowyeah]

I'm on the return to Sheffield of that service, nice and calm this has been. Except for the usual vibrations at speed....

 

[47271]

And the racks are only on one side of the coach. There may be a risk that he makes the whole thing top heavy and it overturns on a tight curve. [emoji38]

 

[Tim R-T-C]

I'm on the return to Sheffield of that service, nice and calm this has been. Except for the usual vibrations at speed....

Are all the luggage racks intact?

 

[Temple Meads]

Saw a pair of 'lads' attempting to race each other along the luggage racks on an FGW HST between Bristol and Worle a couple of years back!

 

[adrock1976]

Saw a pair of 'lads' attempting to race each other along the luggage racks on an FGW HST between Bristol and Worle a couple of years back!

Was that part of the Facebook craze of The Lying Down Game where participants lie down in unusual places and post an image of themselves on Facebook?

 

[yorkie]

Was that part of the Facebook craze of The Lying Down Game where participants lie down in unusual places and post an image of themselves on Facebook?

Yes. it was called "planking". It has been forgotten about now.

(The latest craze amongst youngsters is "bottle flipping" but that's probably for another thread...!)

 

[Islineclear3_1]

I think tonight is Christmas Party night (and not sure if still full moon) so whatever goes I suppose...

 

[Temple Meads]

Was that part of the Facebook craze of The Lying Down Game where participants lie down in unusual places and post an image of themselves on Facebook?

I remember that craze.. Though these guys weren't staying still long enough for it to count as that!

 

[iknowyeah]

Are all the luggage racks intact?

Locked the unit out, but a quick scan and they seem fine!

 

[SSp]

Keep us informed. Ge glad to have a job with entertainment - most of us don't.

 

[MassDiscussion]

If anyone here staffs the Southampton Airport Parkway-/Southampton Central/Millbrook/Redbridge train, I salute you. I'm one of the drunken posties finishing a night shift. We're usually found on the 06.17 SOA to Salisbury with plenty of booze. Don't be alarmed, we're a nice bunch who have just finished a night shift and are having a well earned drink. Just to tell all the staff that we all love you and appreciate you getting us home after a tough night especially during Christmas pressure. Keep up the good work.

 

[Bookd]

Locked the unit out, but a quick scan and they seem fine!

If they looked intact there does not seem to be any risk - why lock the unit out? This would just cause congestion for others who had nothing to do with the incident.

 

[Minilad]

As someone who regularly slept in a luggage rack in a compo whilst on east coast overnights back in the day I don't know what all the fuss is about!

 

[PHILIPE]

Here are all the threads we've got already re behaviour of passengers:-

http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=132421 Station staff being rude

http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=131443 Passengers doing the same thing as described in the OP

http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=122299 Passengers rude again, more old ground covered in the OP

http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=97750 OP being rude to another passenger

http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=138590 Getting on and off the train rude passengers

 

[IanD]

So I do believe I have seen most that there is to see from fellow passengers. The group who have been in the pub for what must be all day and are travelling to Manchester Piccadilly onboard 2S63 have posted one of their number into the overhead rack on the 142. Quite how he'll get down I do not know but it'll be amusing to watch. To be honest I am surprised a couple of what look like rusted M8 bolts is carrying the load.

Saw the exact same thing back in 1991 on the last train from Hebden Bridge to Leeds on a Saturday night.

Also, at some point in the evening we'd "obtained" a plastic patio chair from a pub garden which we thought we'd take back to Bradford. This was placed in the big suitcase rack at the end of the carriage. At some point one of a different group of drunks, heading to Leeds, decided it would be good to sit on it. He managed quite well until we took that sharpish curve just before the line from Brighouse comes in between Sowerby Bridge and Halifax when he came flying off the rack and somehow ended up on the toilet floor.

 

[iknowyeah]

If they looked intact there does not seem to be any risk - why lock the unit out? This would just cause congestion for others who had nothing to do with the incident.

Double units don't fit on the platform at Hathersage so we have to lock it out!