Falcon1200
Established Member
This is kind of what I do when I take my bike on the train (not trying to poke another hornet's nest with that one!)
I don't know which end of the train the bike space will be at, so I stand with my bike at the arrival end of the platform so that the whole train will have to come past me as it arrives. If I see that the bike space is at the front as it passes me, I start moving along the platform so that by the time the train has come to a stop and the doors have been released, I'm more or less in the right place by the doors that I need. (The trains are never more than four carriages long in these parts so it's not too far!)
That's a sensible way of doing things. The trains I mostly take my bike on (Scotrail's Class 380 sets) have a dedicated space, also at one end of the set (why not in a middle vehicle BTW ?). There is a number on the cab ends which allows me to see where the bike space is (oddly, the non-bike end is numbered 2 and the bike end 3). The only problem sometimes being the luggage/prams/people already in the bike space....