Only 30? This forum has lost the edge it once had.Wow! 30 posts in less than 40 hours on whether it's 'cars', 'coaches' or 'carriages', and the finer points of 'separates' and 'divides'. It must be a slow (rail) news week.
Everyone knows that coaches are kept in a carriage shed and that a railway carriage forms part of the railways coaching stock......
Travelling on Southern recently I notice they have changed their announcements. Whereas trains always used to divide they now say separate. Also the train has 8 Carriages not 8 Coaches.
Does anyone know why they have done this. Has there been some sort of research to say people are confused about the old announcements ?
Carriages and Separate have more syllables than Coaches and Divide so the announcements have got longer !
Never mind separates/divides, what is wrong with saying that the train 'splits'?
But if you are at the station on the platform, having seen staff at the ticket gates who would have willingly let you through - why would a road coach suddenly be running on rails? Even those who don't know English well wouldn't assume that, I hope.Being that Southern serve the Gatwick Airport station it might be useful in that regard with all the non-native English speakers using the trains.
Carriages makes it a lot more clearer than it's talking about a train than road coaches.
But if you are at the station on the platform, having seen staff at the ticket gates who would have willingly let you through - why would a road coach suddenly be running on rails? Even those who don't know English well wouldn't assume that, I hope.
I seem to remember some years ago some locations were changing to carriages instead of coaches due to some customers walking around stations asking where, for example, the 4 coaches to Liverpool were. I.e. road coaches.Travelling on Southern recently I notice they have changed their announcements. Whereas trains always used to divide they now say separate. Also the train has 8 Carriages not 8 Coaches.
Does anyone know why they have done this. Has there been some sort of research to say people are confused about the old announcements ?
Carriages and Separate have more syllables than Coaches and Divide so the announcements have got longer !
I seem to remember some years ago some locations were changing to carriages instead of coaches due to some customers walking around stations asking where, for example, the 4 coaches to Liverpool were. I.e. road coaches.
Because it always ends in amessy divorceconscious uncoupling.
LM changed to carriages near the end of their tenure. Interesting that that's why - I did wonder - it always sounds a bit too quaint.
I always thought it was a bit strange that the 153's running to Bedford were announced as being "formed of one coach"....is it a coach or is it a train?
A 153 is both a coach and a train. The coach number is on the side and the set number is on the front!I always thought it was a bit strange that the 153's running to Bedford were announced as being "formed of one coach"....is it a coach or is it a train?
LNW still divide though, rather than separate.
I always thought it was a bit strange that the 153's running to Bedford were announced as being "formed of one coach"....is it a coach or is it a train?
LNW still divide though, rather than separate.
There are all 3 words in Benfleet station.Wow! 30 posts in less than 40 hours on whether it's 'cars', 'coaches' or 'carriages', and the finer points of 'separates' and 'divides'. It must be a slow (rail) news week.