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« Reply #15 on: May 06, 2024, 10:24:22 »
Pedant Alert!

These are not new trains or carriages and it would be really good if the media could be persuaded to stop describing them as such.

I am not convinced by the proposed external decoration but the replacement interiors do look like a major improvement.
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« Reply #16 on: May 06, 2024, 11:15:11 »
The forthcoming replacement interiors: are there visuals to be found please?

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« Reply #17 on: May 08, 2024, 17:01:48 »
Some images at https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/xc-voyager-refurbishment.261302/page-15
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« Reply #18 on: May 08, 2024, 19:49:39 »
Hmm, 5000k daylight lighting, grey / light grey theme and Corporate Memphis feel to the artwork. Still, indirect lighting though which is good.

Why did rail companies discard the idea of warm calming interiors on trains? This stuff can look very bleak especially when it's dark outside.

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« Reply #19 on: May 08, 2024, 23:04:53 »
Safe, reliable, value for money, comfortable, clean. All those are more important for me than interior colour schemes and liveries.

That said, I'd like to see every long distance train in BR▸ (British Rail(ways)) InterCity Swallow livery. Tongue
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« Reply #20 on: December 02, 2024, 22:02:26 »
It looks like Cross Country are removing first class from their Class 170 Turbostar services (Cardiff-Nottingham and Birmingham-Leicester/Stanstead) From the timetable change on the 15th December.

These trains are due for refurb so may mean the 2+1 seats are replaced with 2+2
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« Reply #21 on: December 03, 2024, 12:19:45 »
Quote from: JayMac on May 08, 2024, 23:04:53
Safe, reliable, value for money, comfortable, clean. All those are more important for me than interior colour schemes and liveries.

That said, I'd like to see every long distance train in BR▸ (British Rail(ways)) InterCity Swallow livery. Tongue

Yet good interior design contributes to all five of those qualities. Safe. Reliable. Value for money. Comfortable. Clean.

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« Reply #22 on: December 03, 2024, 20:50:31 »
Quote from: TonyN on December 02, 2024, 22:02:26
These trains are due for refurb so may mean the 2+1 seats are replaced with 2+2

Mmmmm ...............and if you replace the existing 2+2 seats with 2+3 seats that gives you 25% more seats (now where have I heard/seen that one before ??)  Gosh, I am getting cynical in my old age.
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« Reply #23 on: December 04, 2024, 04:27:10 »
I have been cynical for many years.
"Providing more seats" sounds good but too often means higher density seating rather than longer trains.
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A proper intercity train has a minimum of 8 coaches, gangwayed throughout, with first at one end, and a full sized buffet car between first and standard.
It has space for cycles, surfboards,luggage etc.
A 5 car DMU▸ (Diesel Multiple Unit) is not a proper inter-city train. The 5+5 and 9 car DMUs are almost as bad.
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« Reply #24 on: December 04, 2024, 07:02:58 »
Quote from: broadgage on December 04, 2024, 04:27:10
I have been cynical for many years.


Surely not?  Wink
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