Oh the irony...

[ChrisTheRef]

I'm sat in a quiet coach on a Voyager

 

[90019]

Um, great...

 

[466.networkers]

Using a laptop/mobile in a quiet coach? Surely not!

 

[Fincra5]

I'm not quite getting the irony.... You could be typing very quitely

 

[Daimler]

I'm assuming you're referring to the constant, frustrating bass drone of the diesel engine beneath your seat? Annoying, isn't it...

 

[mumrar]

I'm assuming you're referring to the constant, frustrating bass drone of the diesel engine beneath your seat? Annoying, isn't it...

So what should be done? Make them isolate the engine and only use it if another fails? Turn all quiet coaches in to trailer vehicles? What were you expecting of the quiet coach on a diesel unit, the slow whistle of air-con above your head? It's not meant to be comparable to a glider and a jet aircraft I think.

 

[37401]

Don't fart in the quiet coach...in terms of Virgin Trains it means death by hanging and/or shooting

 

[starrymarkb]

Compared to my usual 150 commute Voyagers are very quiet

 

[O L Leigh]

I'm sat in a quiet coach on a Voyager

Shh...!!!!

O L Leigh

 

[Solent&Wessex]

Shh...!!!!

O L Leigh

I sat in the Quiet Coach the other weekend back from Birmingham to Manchester. There were at least 3 people with headphones on so loud you could hear them the other end of the coach, one girl who spent half the journey shouting into her phone as though she was talking into a tin can and bit of string all the way to Manchester and one family with some incredibly noisy and irritating children.

I was particularly annoyed that when the Guard came through doing tickets, she made absolutely no effort to ask any of them to be quiet.

If the train wasn't so full I would have moved somewhere else.

 

[Daimler]

So what should be done? Make them isolate the engine and only use it if another fails? Turn all quiet coaches in to trailer vehicles? What were you expecting of the quiet coach on a diesel unit, the slow whistle of air-con above your head? It's not meant to be comparable to a glider and a jet aircraft I think.

Nothing less.

I may have misunderstood the OP, but I saw it as a complaint about the general noisiness of these diesel units on supposed intercity services, something which I find - to say the least - annoying, and I was concurring.
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I sat in the Quiet Coach the other weekend back from Birmingham to Manchester. There were at least 3 people with headphones on so loud you could hear them the other end of the coach, one girl who spent half the journey shouting into her phone as though she was talking into a tin can and bit of string all the way to Manchester and one family with some incredibly noisy and irritating children.

I was particularly annoyed that when the Guard came through doing tickets, she made absolutely no effort to ask any of them to be quiet.

If the train wasn't so full I would have moved somewhere else.

The trouble is, were the guard to do so they'd just start again as soon as she'd left the carriage, and likely as not were you to ask them to quieten down you'd get a mouthful of abuse. So while the guard should make a point of trying to keep the quiet coach quiet, it rarely works properly.

I remember seeing a guard on London Midland ask someone to take their feet off the seats - as soon as the guard had walked off down the carriage, the feet went straight up again. :mad:

 

[Greenback]

Nothing less.

I may have misunderstood the OP, but I saw it as a complaint about the general noisiness of these diesel units on supposed intercity services, something which I find - to say the least - annoying, and I was concurring.
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The trouble is, were the guard to do so they'd just start again as soon as she'd left the carriage, and likely as not were you to ask them to quieten down you'd get a mouthful of abuse. So while the guard should make a point of trying to keep the quiet coach quiet, it rarely works properly.

I remember seeing a guard on London Midland ask someone to take their feet off the seats - as soon as the guard had walked off down the carriage, the feet went straight up again. :mad:

I sa the feet on seats thing in BR days between Aberystwyth and Birmingham New Street. When the guard came through a second time and the two 'gents' concerned had their feet on the seats a second time, they got a final warning. On the third occasion, the guard said nothing, and I heard them laughing that they'd won! On arrival at Birmingham, the BTP were waiting to escort them off the station - they were off to Newcastle, but their tickets were taken and they were told they weren't travelling by rail!

 

[tbtc]

I sa the feet on seats thing in BR days between Aberystwyth and Birmingham New Street. When the guard came through a second time and the two 'gents' concerned had their feet on the seats a second time, they got a final warning. On the third occasion, the guard said nothing, and I heard them laughing that they'd won! On arrival at Birmingham, the BTP were waiting to escort them off the station - they were off to Newcastle, but their tickets were taken and they were told they weren't travelling by rail!

I love a story with a happy ending - cheers for that