BRX
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Agreed completely (on the general point - also haven't yet been able to try the 'club car' either).I've not managed to travel in the club car yet but from all the publicity photos it seems CS has made the same mistake that Travelodge made a few years ago when introducing low energy lighting. The "colour temperature" of the lights used is towards blue white and that makes for a colder, more sterile environment. Now that low energy lighting is available with much warmer white LEDs it should be quite a simple manner to retrofit warmer white lights. The snag is the LED lights are designed to last for years so unless CS (or indeed Travelodge) gets masses of negative customer feedback this issue will persist. However the impact on CS is nowhere near as bad as on preserved mk1 stock on heritage railways, that ambience is positively awful when blue white LEDs replace the yellow tungsten bulbs!
Scotrail have made the same mistake on the refurbed HSTs - wrong colour temperature LEDs. GWR did it too. I don't know why this seems to be a thing on railways. Anyone involved in lighting design knows about this - and any conventional interior designer who specified cool-white LEDs for an internal environment that is supposed to have a relaxing ambience would be incompetent.