EbbwJunction1
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Last Saturday morning, I was travelling from Paddington to Cardiff, having been away for a couple of days.
Everything was going well, until between Swindon and Bristol Parkway, a message was heard asking the Train Manager to contact the driver. Anyway, almost straight afterwards, the brakes went on and we came to a sudden halt. This was followed by repeated announcements that the train had stopped because the system had detected that someone in Coach D was smoking. I wasn't in that coach, so I don't know what actually happened, but after a while (about 10 - 15 minutes, I think), we restarted and carried on. However, the No Smoking message was repeated several times, and continued until Bristol Parkway.
This made me think: how often does this happen these days? I know that there's often a message saying that all trains and stations are non smoking, but I don't think that I've ever been on a train that's stopped for this reason. If I have, it's a long time ago, possibly at around the time that smoking was banned, but I can't remember it.
I guess that if they had identified the culprit, he / she would have been reported to BTP and probably been punished, although I'm not sure how this would have been done.
Has anyone had a similar incident, either as a passenger or staff, please? If so, what happened next?
Everything was going well, until between Swindon and Bristol Parkway, a message was heard asking the Train Manager to contact the driver. Anyway, almost straight afterwards, the brakes went on and we came to a sudden halt. This was followed by repeated announcements that the train had stopped because the system had detected that someone in Coach D was smoking. I wasn't in that coach, so I don't know what actually happened, but after a while (about 10 - 15 minutes, I think), we restarted and carried on. However, the No Smoking message was repeated several times, and continued until Bristol Parkway.
This made me think: how often does this happen these days? I know that there's often a message saying that all trains and stations are non smoking, but I don't think that I've ever been on a train that's stopped for this reason. If I have, it's a long time ago, possibly at around the time that smoking was banned, but I can't remember it.
I guess that if they had identified the culprit, he / she would have been reported to BTP and probably been punished, although I'm not sure how this would have been done.
Has anyone had a similar incident, either as a passenger or staff, please? If so, what happened next?