Those announcements would actually be useful thoughdont need more announcements, have got more than enough already.
Those announcements would actually be useful thoughdont need more announcements, have got more than enough already.
dont need more announcements, have got more than enough already.
Comfortable seats such as the ones in Mk 1 First Open coaches. Large tables and seats which lined up with the windows. The abolition of tombstone seat backs, sufficient legroom for someone who is 6'3" tall like myself and accessible toilets with wide doors for the disabled like myself. Helpful and friendly platform staff who help you to get onto and off a train. Two months ago, I travelled from Ivybridge to Taunton to collect my wifes new car, a secondhand renault convertible. When I arrived in Taunton I struggled to get out of the HST as I have to use two walking sticks and there was a member of the platform staff who saw me struggling and he just ignored me! I do not intend to travel by train again if I can help it, especially after this experience.
The Barcelona metro just uses a small arrow on the PIS to show which side the doors will open. That's surely something that can be implemented easily?
A simple idea which could easily be tied into a drivers reminder device to prevent a wrong side release.
Definitely not, I find most standard class seats too cramped as they are without the available legroom being impinged upon by reclining seats.
Seat back tables on suburban EMUs. There's absolutely no reason why they shouldn't have them - same with half tables at bays.
Just remembered something I saw on an AMTRAK train last month when I was on holiday: a free drinking water dispenser. It was located just outside the toilet, but unlike the water in there, it was explicitly labelled as being for public consumption.
Agree 100%.
Why this hasn't been addressed during the various refurbs is a bugbear. Must be one of the cheaper improvements to install.
I'm not sure I'd trust any UK TOC to regularly refill or clean such a feature!
I noticed in the wheelchair bay on a refurbished Northern 158 earlier that the old folding half-table has been replaced with a very narrow permanent table that's better described as a shelf. Is this something required for PRM-TSI (like making the bay much bigger) or just a poor design?
Agree on seat-back tables and half-tables. Even just a cup-holder would be an improvement. In fact buses ought to have cup holders, with the reduction in spillages they'd probably pay for themselves within a week!
Is changing the water container on these really beyond the ken of the railway?I'm not sure I'd trust any UK TOC to regularly refill or clean such a feature!
A bit of a difference between the sort of services AMTRAK provide and our railway though, seeing that most of their services are very leisurely long distance routes with few stops and massive turnaround times!Just remembered something I saw on an AMTRAK train last month when I was on holiday: a free drinking water dispenser. It was located just outside the toilet, but unlike the water in there, it was explicitly labelled as being for public consumption.
Is changing the water container on these really beyond the ken of the railway?
I agree. I might be wrong but don't both ICEs and ICs in Germany have them? Curtains also solve the problem with blinds of them covering multiple seats.
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I'd agree with your view on tickets, and go so far as to say no Advance tickets should be sold on any train which is regularly occupied in excess of seating capacity.
The GWR Volo TVs were a lovely touch.
Have you seen the price of one of those things, let alone the cost of putting on one every train?!
I hadn't, but I went and looked it up. Looks like you can get them for less than £150. I imagine if you were to buy them in bulk you'd get them cheaper as well.