But is the suspension as bumpy and noisy as the 331? That's the crucial question for me.
I agree this is an important question. I would also like to know if the seats will be more suitable for 3 hour long journeys than the very hard and unpleasant ones in the 802s.
Is this something to do with the LEDs next to the reservation displays? I've heard/read somewhere that you could see a live seat map near door showing where seats are free. Is this true?
I personally thought it was worse than I imagined. But the aisles of the train were full.
I don't know if it's actually lower than a 331. But it is certainly lower than, say, a Pendolino. The step into the train is very slight, which is very good. The 'overhead' room is also very good. The floor isn't platform-height low access floor, but it isn't Voyager-style and nothing like an 800.
That's one of things I like about the desiros; people tend not to move between carriages, so the blocking the gangways doors isn't as much of an issues,so when the train gets full, people sensibly start standing in the aisles, starting from the ends. With the new stock, you're blocking the route to the external doors. People tend not to stand in the middle until train REALLY gets full.
Unless TPE's sets have different tubes than LNR's ones, they are (slightly) warm white already. If anything the Novas are more of a pure white (not the nasty daylight colour that Northern have used in some refurbs).
It looks really terrible.
It's already littered! Shame passengers can't be more civil and use the bin/take rubbish with them. Interesting that the cab door is a manual hinged door, rather than a powered one. Seeing this on the 195's, thought northern just decided to save cost, and a powered door was an option. Is there some kind of new regulation, or just a cost-saving measure/design choice by CAF? I think the external doors to the staff areas are also hinged rather than sliding?
If by the aisles you mean the gap between the seats in the main part of the carriage, that didn't look to me to be any less cramped than usual.
Exactly this. There's a seat missing on the 195s near the cab to make room for the door to swing open.
I wonder why they didn't opt for proper LCD/OLED displays for overhead.
There are. But 185s have those as well, and their dot matrix screens are far easier to read.
At risk of going off-topic, do they do anything other than display the TPE logo?
A good selection of info on the Mk5s - things like predicted arrival times and connections.
Yes, the ones on the 185s work very well when set up.
Test mode on the 397:
Fantastic how it displays the train number too for connections!
Bikes (when booked on the services) carry priority in the Bike area of Coach A, announcements will be made detailing this area as the bike area and also during ticket checks passenger will be informed they will have to move when a bike is boarding, thus far it's been used as a luggage car by many,l but just needs managing properly by the guard.
