Backroom_boy
Member
Just had a few nights down in St Ives via the sleeper train (both ways) and these are my thoughts:
* On board staff were excellent; smoothed over any issues and friendly and helpful.
* Full tray breakfast service is suspended but they are doing an acceptable reheated bacon roll
* Passengers joining at any intermediate stop need to pick up their key cards from the club car steward which caused a bit of confusion. (Is this a covid thing?)
* The recentish (2018?) Refurb of the compartments is pretty good, much less spartan than 80's BR.
* the ride is OK on the main line but the further west you go the worse it is (don't think I slept a wink in cornwall)
* But my one real annoyance was the jolting of the train with the stop/starts which is the worst I've experienced recently on any journey. Is this because its loco hauled (two class 57s topping and tailing) and not a unit train? Class 43/HSTs are much smoother which makes me wonder if the sleeper train could be re-engineered as a proper unit train (maybe with 43 power cars?) to get rid of all this jolting?
* On board staff were excellent; smoothed over any issues and friendly and helpful.
* Full tray breakfast service is suspended but they are doing an acceptable reheated bacon roll
* Passengers joining at any intermediate stop need to pick up their key cards from the club car steward which caused a bit of confusion. (Is this a covid thing?)
* The recentish (2018?) Refurb of the compartments is pretty good, much less spartan than 80's BR.
* the ride is OK on the main line but the further west you go the worse it is (don't think I slept a wink in cornwall)
* But my one real annoyance was the jolting of the train with the stop/starts which is the worst I've experienced recently on any journey. Is this because its loco hauled (two class 57s topping and tailing) and not a unit train? Class 43/HSTs are much smoother which makes me wonder if the sleeper train could be re-engineered as a proper unit train (maybe with 43 power cars?) to get rid of all this jolting?