Hope I'm not missing an earlier thread on this, but am I the only one that absolutely loathes those minute illuminated reservation displays in modern stock?
If there are any rolling stock designers or senior managers, who will all travel first class anyway! reading this, please bring back the paper tickets or similar flag...I don't care how it's done but the most important thing by a long way is to flag up reserved seats, visually as soon as you enter the carriage...one glance and you can see empty seats. (how long has the paper system been employed? The current system for half the poplulation means putting down your luggage, fiddling with spectacles and peering at the tiny scrolling screen...now whose daft idea was all that?
By the time you've carried out all that activity, an impatient queue will have built up behind the seat enquirer, and as we are becoming a fatter nation, and with all that luggage on a long distance, there is often no way round, so paper tickets on backs of seats please from now on! Thanks.
If there are any rolling stock designers or senior managers, who will all travel first class anyway! reading this, please bring back the paper tickets or similar flag...I don't care how it's done but the most important thing by a long way is to flag up reserved seats, visually as soon as you enter the carriage...one glance and you can see empty seats. (how long has the paper system been employed? The current system for half the poplulation means putting down your luggage, fiddling with spectacles and peering at the tiny scrolling screen...now whose daft idea was all that?
By the time you've carried out all that activity, an impatient queue will have built up behind the seat enquirer, and as we are becoming a fatter nation, and with all that luggage on a long distance, there is often no way round, so paper tickets on backs of seats please from now on! Thanks.