I have to say that when I travelled with them a couple of years ago after 1 year of operation, I already noticed the state of the seats were already looking bad with worn out fabric, missing caps that covered the screws for the armrests that connected with the rest of the seat etc.
I recently travelled with them again a couple of weeks ago and some of the seats were looking in really poor shape. Usable, but they looked like they had been used for more than 3 years.
Hopefully the new seats last a lot longer.
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I recently travelled with them again a couple of weeks ago and some of the seats were looking in really poor shape. Usable, but they looked like they had been used for more than 3 years.
Hopefully the new seats last a lot longer.
Cut-price train operator Lumo replacing 'tired' seat upholstery after just three years
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Cut-price train operator Lumo replacing 'tired' seat upholstery after just three years
Rivals LNER says the seats in its twice-as-old trains remain in “really good condition”

Scotland's newest train operator Lumo is replacing seat upholstery because it is becoming worn after just three years - in stark contrast to rival firms which expect up to decades of use before theirs need refurbishment.
The move was announced days after a reviewer of the Edinburgh-London service for the consumer watchdog Which? found his seat had “more stains on it than a two-year-old’s bib at dinner time” and the others “all look the same – filthy”.
Another reviewer, marketing consultant Roger Edwards, praised the comfiness of Lumo’s seats, but said their cloth covers were “prone to staining”.
The service was launched in October 2021 using similar Hitachi trains to those introduced on the route by rivals LNER three years earlier. LNER has moquette - dense woven fabric - seats, which the operator said remained in “really good condition”.
Avanti West Coast last year completed a seat refurbishment of its Glasgow-London trains for the first time in some 20 years.
Lumo told The Scotsman: “We were mindful the original fabric had reached a point of needing to be refreshed with an upgraded material.
“We’re now in our fourth year of providing our popular service and as our fleet approaches one million miles per train, we have taken the opportunity to re-trim the seats, which were originally trimmed in an at-the-time innovative new weave, as they were looking a little tired.