Night Riviera (Un)sleeper restarts

[CW2]

"From 25 June we will start to run an overnight service again on Thursdays and Fridays only, in both directions.
For the first three weeks we won’t be selling cabins, just seats.
After this, we plan to increase the frequency, and start offering cabins, on a gradual basis.

When customers arrive, they will see that the train includes a sleeper carriage and the café. These won’t be used but are there to help keep colleagues up to date with their training. We recommend that you bring drinks and snacks with you.

Services will show in online journey planners as an overnight train, rather than a sleeper."

https://www.gwr.com/plan-journey/journey-information/on-board/night-riviera-sleeper

 

[Yew]

How can a seat possibly be safer than sole occupancy of a sleeper cabin?

 

[Mike395]

My guess is they’re needing to run it for staff training ahead of a full restart next month and are thinking ‘why not run it in service’ - if they’re opening the sleeper coaches they need to reintroduce sleeper attendants and it may be that 3 weeks is how long needed to unfurlough/refresher on new procedures etc.

 

[PHILIPE]

The topic has actually kicked off in the normal thread:-

https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/gwr-cornish-night-riviera-sleeper-and-gwr-class-57-updates-from-long-rock

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[Cowley]

The topic has actually kicked off in the normal thread:-

https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/gwr-cornish-night-riviera-sleeper-and-gwr-class-57-updates-from-long-rock

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Thanks @PHILIPE.

And on that note...
Over to the original thread:

GWR Cornish Night Riviera Sleeper and GWR Class 57 updates from Long Rock

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