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« Reply #180 on: January 14, 2010, 14:18:53 » |
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My post was half in jest. Nothing I detest more than some whiny teenager playing rubbish RnB on their phone too loudly without earphones.
Oh apart from screaming babies!
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« Reply #181 on: January 14, 2010, 14:30:53 » |
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This is the counter productive aspect of labelling a 'quiet carriage' - people wrongly assume they can make as much noise as they like in other carriages...
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Heard from a group of teenage girls walking down the aisle of coach D after boarding an HST▸ from Swansea last night... "lets sit in this one, its a noisy carriage" (and to be fair they sat down a coupel of rows behind me and didn't cause any annoyance) |
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« Reply #182 on: January 16, 2010, 17:55:39 » |
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What I don't understand is why Coach H isn't the First Class Quiet Carriage... It would make alot more sense, because anyone who wants to go to the Buffet car or use the disabled toilet for example has to walk through the quiet carriage to get there... 9 times out of 10 causing severe annoyance to the quiet carriage occupants...
Just a thought that maybe moving it to H would be a better option...?!
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« Reply #183 on: January 16, 2010, 18:39:08 » |
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What I don't understand is why Coach H isn't the First Class Quiet Carriage... It would make alot more sense, because anyone who wants to go to the Buffet car or use the disabled toilet for example has to walk through the quiet carriage to get there... 9 times out of 10 causing severe annoyance to the quiet carriage occupants...
Just a thought that maybe moving it to H would be a better option...?!
Does someone walking through a 1st class coach coach cause severe annoyance to 90% of the passengers? I must be in the 10% then, as it doesn't worry be one jot. And in my experience relatively few passengers in 1st go to the buffet, as they can get what they need from the trolley. As for someone getting from Coach H to the disabled toilet in Coach C, can't see that happening for one moment. |
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« Reply #184 on: January 16, 2010, 22:22:57 » |
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What I don't understand is why Coach H isn't the First Class Quiet Carriage... It would make alot more sense, because anyone who wants to go to the Buffet car or use the disabled toilet for example has to walk through the quiet carriage to get there... 9 times out of 10 causing severe annoyance to the quiet carriage occupants...
Just a thought that maybe moving it to H would be a better option...?!
I should imagine it is a hangover from the days when H used to be the smoking carriage. |
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« Reply #185 on: January 16, 2010, 22:48:33 » |
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Does someone walking through a 1st class coach coach cause severe annoyance to 90% of the passengers? I must be in the 10% then, as it doesn't worry be one jot. And in my experience relatively few passengers in 1st go to the buffet, as they can get what they need from the trolley.
As for someone getting from Coach H to the disabled toilet in Coach C, can't see that happening for one moment.
From my experience i've always had a few stern looks by the time i've gone to the buffet 2 or 3 times in a journey... I see your point about the trolley, but on the routes i've covered it doesn't always come round by the time i've got off the train... e.g. Bath Spa > W-S-M As for the disabled toilet, i was merely using that as an example...  |
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« Reply #186 on: January 16, 2010, 23:43:19 » |
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I've never known a trolley service extend beyond Bristol in the down direction, and usually the last "run" is between Swindon and Chippenham, after which they are, um, doing something that means not serving passengers (not quite sure what) . So that may explain part of it.
Though why you would visit the buffet 2 or three times between Bath and Weston puzzles me.
And as I said, someone walking quietly past in 1st is not going to raise too many eyebrows. Even if you do it three times....
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« Reply #187 on: January 17, 2010, 20:09:56 » |
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Though why you would visit the buffet 2 or three times between Bath and Weston puzzles me.
Because I always forget the milk for my hot drink or leave my ticket on the bar or something... My short term memory isn't exactly brilliant!  |
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« Reply #188 on: January 17, 2010, 20:59:14 » |
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I was on a train the other week where a BBC» Spotlight news reporter ranted at somebody for using their phone in the quiet carriage.  Did you know who it was? I've met a few of them - and their Radio Devon colleagues and they don't really seem the type to rant! - unless it was someone like Simon Hall perhaps - poor guy was shivering his backside off reporting live on the snow much of last week! |
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« Reply #189 on: January 17, 2010, 21:08:54 » |
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It was Simon Hall |
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« Reply #190 on: January 17, 2010, 21:13:57 » |
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The question is... is it acceptable to use a Mobile Phone in the quiet carriage if you're the only occupant...  I must admit I have done that once in the past... the other occupant I know for a fact didn't care less because he was my dog |
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« Reply #191 on: January 17, 2010, 21:23:39 » |
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It was Simon Hall Wonder how I guessed that. I tell you who I'd like to meet on an FGW▸ train - Natalie Cornah (and no I'm not trying to flirt - I have met her in person and she is a genuinely nice person!) |
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« Reply #192 on: January 17, 2010, 22:23:35 » |
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The question is... is it acceptable to use a Mobile Phone in the quiet carriage if you're the only occupant... I must admit I have done that once in the past... the other occupant I know for a fact didn't care less because he was my dog I must admit I have done so at moreton in Marsh on the 1822/1922 and its me and the paint work - on about 1/3 occasions it upsets someone however whilst I know I am breaking the rules I have little respect for their complaints as I make sure I am only talking just above whispering |
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"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love"
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« Reply #193 on: January 17, 2010, 22:55:01 » |
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The question is... is it acceptable to use a Mobile Phone in the quiet carriage if you're the only occupant... I must admit I have done so at moreton in Marsh on the 1822/1922 and its me and the paint work - on about 1/3 occasions it upsets someone So you weren't the only occupant? |
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« Reply #194 on: January 17, 2010, 23:06:41 » |
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The question is... is it acceptable to use a Mobile Phone in the quiet carriage if you're the only occupant... I must admit I have done so at moreton in Marsh on the 1822/1922 and its me and the paint work - on about 1/3 occasions it upsets someone So you weren't the only occupant? Ok - no I wasnt - but I was down the buffet end of G and the other occupant was H end of G.............on all occasions where it was an issue. Note - on the journey home I never sit in G unless they have removed the buffet in which I sort of feel slightly vindicated - I would sit in F if there was one! On the way down - I am in G as i'm normally asleep Its as close to being alone as you will get in the modern world |
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