Well, in these days, you often find people will not leave their seat, through fear of losing it on busy services. Plus people are wary of not being in sight of their luggage. Now, whenever I seem to catch a double set, I always find the buffet trolley (if there is one at all) is in the other half. So I just get something before I get on
I do agree with your comments. Do they want business or not? Sometimes a trolley person comes down the train mumbling something inaudible. Others do it very well
First Class got Maroon seat covers, if that's what you mean.
It would definitely be nice if XC was to get some of the 810s or 80xs although I can’t see that happening in the near future so refurbishment will have to do for now
I'll be honest, I'm not a massive fan of the blue doors. Is that even part of the branding or not? I originally thought it was Red and White.
Porterbrook won't be, no.
Jeez, it’s certainly… colourful!
And hallelujah to that. I don’t understand the love for the hitachi trains, every time I travel on one it feels like it’s going to shake to pieces running at top speed down the Thames valley, the seats are terrible and the lighting wouldn’t be out of place used as floodlighting at a football ground. The voyagers have their faults but they feel well built and have a very smooth ride over 100mph.
Did I read that correctly, they are replacing seats and declassifying 1st class, but only on one of the 3 different sub classes of 170?Rail vehicle dispensation: Porterbrook refurbished Class 170s for CrossCountry Trains and East Midlands Railways
Seeks views on Porterbrook’s request for dispensation against the persons with reduced mobility national technical specification notice regarding 64 refurbished Class 170 units.www.gov.uk
Part of me wonders if the only reason the turquoise bits feature is to avoid being sued or something.
This would look a heck of a lot better with yellow doors. Nowhere near as classy as the existing silver no matter what however
I quite like it. Think it’s more suited to a cross-city unit, rather then long-distance intercity operator.
Much better on this than the voyager.
Can't help but agree. Indeed this bit jumped out at me...
...because I experienced an issue with exactly this at Leicester on Saturday. Two trains, departing minutes apart, were sharing different ends of a platform. The platform dot matrix displays were only able to show one train, and from the entrance to the platform the ends of the trains were not visible, so arriving passengers were unclear which was which. With a bit of inspection one was XC and the other, further away, was EMR, but the respective 170s don't look dissimilar at a glance and I'll confess that it took me a moment to figure out what was going on - other daytrippers, in a rush and less familiar with TOCs, were far more agitated and were queueing up to ask the harassed conductor which train was which. A couple of platform side screens on the train would have saved a lot of collective stress and some crucial minutes!
A Nottingham at the North end and a Birmingham at the South end platform 1 or 4 ?
No I agree, as long as you can get a seat on a clean Voyager (Avantis' ones rather than XC's) it's a far superior train to an IET build quality wise.
It makes you wonder who makes these choices. They should get proper outside designers to come up with a livery. It's very kids theme park ride, not worthy of a long distance operator.
That sounds about right. I believe it was 4. It's not a station I have much experience of.
This looks like what a 6 year old would make in 5 minutes. Yellow, Turquoise, Red and Grey do not go together.
What was the saying. Red and green should never be seen . .
