I happened to be traveling on a West Midlands Day Ranger today and decided to take a trip from Birmingham-Shrewsbury and back, on my outward journey, passing Oxley, I noticed that the 805s were in a perfect position to try and film a video that would give me a rough indication of the interior layout, so when I passed Oxley on my return journey, I indeed filmed the 805s.
I managed to get a relatively accurate indication of the saloon layouts, as well as the coach letters displayed on the external DMIs, and can confidently say that the coaches are as follows:
Coach A - Driving standard class coach, with 6 bays of 4,
Coach B - Standard class coach with shop and 8 bays of 4,
Coach C - Standard class coach with 10 bays of 4,
Coach D - Standard class coach with 10 bays of 4,
Coach E - First class coach, layout was too difficult to decipher.
I realized that I would be able to create a broad seating plan, based on my recording, and managed to create something that happens to have 4 more seats in standard than an 805 is meant to have according to the Avanti contract, I found it quite difficult to decipher luggage racks, and I believe the seating, while it is very symmetrical for the most part, may not be fully symmetrical in coach A - which would explain the discrepancy.
I of course must mention that this is of course not the official seating plan, and I wouldn't be surprised myself if there were some slight differences!
Apologies for the banner, I want to try to avoid people claiming this as their own, it took me ages to create, it was certainly difficult. The footage wasn't easy to analyze, and I had to find several pictures of the interior to try to properly grasp the layout.
I hope that this is a useful resource, and while it's not 100% accurate, I can safely say that it's as accurate as we're going to get for the time being without an official seating plan, the tables are definitely correct, and the airline seating is about 90% correct.
I managed to get a relatively accurate indication of the saloon layouts, as well as the coach letters displayed on the external DMIs, and can confidently say that the coaches are as follows:
Coach A - Driving standard class coach, with 6 bays of 4,
Coach B - Standard class coach with shop and 8 bays of 4,
Coach C - Standard class coach with 10 bays of 4,
Coach D - Standard class coach with 10 bays of 4,
Coach E - First class coach, layout was too difficult to decipher.
I realized that I would be able to create a broad seating plan, based on my recording, and managed to create something that happens to have 4 more seats in standard than an 805 is meant to have according to the Avanti contract, I found it quite difficult to decipher luggage racks, and I believe the seating, while it is very symmetrical for the most part, may not be fully symmetrical in coach A - which would explain the discrepancy.
I of course must mention that this is of course not the official seating plan, and I wouldn't be surprised myself if there were some slight differences!
Apologies for the banner, I want to try to avoid people claiming this as their own, it took me ages to create, it was certainly difficult. The footage wasn't easy to analyze, and I had to find several pictures of the interior to try to properly grasp the layout.
I hope that this is a useful resource, and while it's not 100% accurate, I can safely say that it's as accurate as we're going to get for the time being without an official seating plan, the tables are definitely correct, and the airline seating is about 90% correct.