Is there an official code of behaviour anywhere for Quiet Coaches?
I was on a train recently, chatting normally with a friend in a quiet coach, when the person in front said our conversation was too loud and could we be quiet. I didn't make an issue of it, but did reflect his expectations of "quiet" seemed different from mine. I had always thought that you shouldn't make or receive phone calls, or play music so others could hear it, but that normal conversation was OK.
I realise that making a phone call is no different to having a conversation in person (in fact quieter, since only one half of it would be audible) so I know there's failed logic to my thinking there.
Yet this chap seemed to think he was entitled to almost total silence. Surely public transport can never realistically deliver that especially now most trains are so busy.
I was on a train recently, chatting normally with a friend in a quiet coach, when the person in front said our conversation was too loud and could we be quiet. I didn't make an issue of it, but did reflect his expectations of "quiet" seemed different from mine. I had always thought that you shouldn't make or receive phone calls, or play music so others could hear it, but that normal conversation was OK.
I realise that making a phone call is no different to having a conversation in person (in fact quieter, since only one half of it would be audible) so I know there's failed logic to my thinking there.
Yet this chap seemed to think he was entitled to almost total silence. Surely public transport can never realistically deliver that especially now most trains are so busy.