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« Reply #15 on: December 15, 2007, 18:17:13 »
Quote from: vacman on December 15, 2007, 18:14:25
Quote from: qprrule on December 15, 2007, 17:53:43
Quote from: devon_metro on December 15, 2007, 17:51:36
Must be better than a refurb'd HST▸ (High Speed Train) though?
No. They are the kind that offer back support so that means they have bits that poke out. Also a problem with the train in general was that it vibrated alot.
All 158's vibrate a lot!
The seats where shaking. I don't normally notice that.
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« Reply #16 on: December 15, 2007, 19:06:31 »
Quote from: devon_metro on December 15, 2007, 18:16:49
Quote from: qprrule on December 15, 2007, 17:53:43
Quote from: devon_metro on December 15, 2007, 17:51:36
Must be better than a refurb'd HST▸ (High Speed Train) though?
No. They are the kind that offer back support so that means they have bits that poke out. Also a problem with the train in general was that it vibrated alot.

Try a Voyager!

Upon stepping off you may be excused for christening it a 'Vomiter'

Or a pendolino!  all that tilting.

Currently sitting in the upper crust at crewe station awaiting arriva trains to ludlow - been to visit dear mother in scouseland and had to suffer a pendolino from liverpool to crewe - the reason I go by train not car is travel sickness - and guess what - I get sick on a pendolino!

Its the main reason I put up with the re-incarnation of Gods Worst Railway and don't go birmingham to Euston - the pendolinos are vomit heaven (and they smell)
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« Reply #17 on: December 15, 2007, 19:27:26 »
Quote from: Mookiemoo on December 15, 2007, 19:06:31
Or a pendolino!  all that tilting.

Currently sitting in the upper crust at crewe station awaiting arriva trains to ludlow - been to visit dear mother in scouseland and had to suffer a pendolino from liverpool to crewe - the reason I go by train not car is travel sickness - and guess what - I get sick on a pendolino!

Its the main reason I put up with the re-incarnation of Gods Worst Railway and don't go birmingham to Euston - the pendolinos are vomit heaven (and they smell)
Funny you should say that as I was on a pendolino today and someone was in the vestibule chucking up into buffet car paper bag and that was only just as the train was pulling out of Birmingham! Dear chap must have been quite poorly.

For all its wrongs, there is nothing quite like boarding a FGW▸ (First Great Western) HST▸ (High Speed Train), even a refurbed one after you've either been shaken to bits by a voyager or tilted by a pendo. An HST carriage seems a positive haven of peace compared to a Voyager...I'm sure they are noiser then being in a 158.
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« Reply #18 on: December 15, 2007, 19:41:51 »
Voyager=vomit comet!
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« Reply #19 on: December 15, 2007, 21:15:41 »
add to that lot Adalante.....and everyone is moaning about FGWs▸ (First Great Western) 30 yr old inferior rolling stock!!! lol
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« Reply #20 on: December 15, 2007, 21:33:57 »
Quote from: dog box on December 15, 2007, 21:15:41
add to that lot Adalante.....and everyone is moaning about FGWs▸ (First Great Western) 30 yr old inferior rolling stock!!! lol
Nothing will replace the HST▸ (High Speed Train)! I've yet to travel on anything that beats it.
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« Reply #21 on: December 17, 2007, 03:55:55 »
Quote from: Timmer on December 15, 2007, 21:33:57
Quote from: dog box on December 15, 2007, 21:15:41
add to that lot Adalante.....and everyone is moaning about FGWs▸ (First Great Western) 30 yr old inferior rolling stock!!! lol
Nothing will replace the HST▸ (High Speed Train)! I've yet to travel on anything that beats it.

Never travelled on a class 442 with REP traction motors then? Before the REPs were messed around with, they had 3000hp to a 4 car unit.
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« Reply #22 on: December 23, 2007, 09:18:06 »
Quote from: qprrule on December 15, 2007, 18:17:13
Quote from: vacman on December 15, 2007, 18:14:25
Quote from: qprrule on December 15, 2007, 17:53:43
Quote from: devon_metro on December 15, 2007, 17:51:36
Must be better than a refurb'd HST▸ (High Speed Train) though?
No. They are the kind that offer back support so that means they have bits that poke out. Also a problem with the train in general was that it vibrated alot.
All 158's vibrate a lot!
The seats where shaking. I don't normally notice that.

158747 - in advertising livery by chance?
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« Reply #23 on: December 23, 2007, 09:42:52 »
Quote from: Jim on December 23, 2007, 09:18:06
Quote from: qprrule on December 15, 2007, 18:17:13
Quote from: vacman on December 15, 2007, 18:14:25
Quote from: qprrule on December 15, 2007, 17:53:43
Quote from: devon_metro on December 15, 2007, 17:51:36
Must be better than a refurb'd HST▸ (High Speed Train) though?
No. They are the kind that offer back support so that means they have bits that poke out. Also a problem with the train in general was that it vibrated alot.
All 158's vibrate a lot!
The seats where shaking. I don't normally notice that.

158747 - in advertising livery by chance?
No it was 158762- a refurblished one with new seats. I quite like 158747- Wessex refurblished it with new seats and lots of tables.
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« Reply #24 on: December 23, 2007, 10:08:57 »
The seats are awful mind, armrests seem to stick up into the air and the pink is just awful IMHO▸ (in my humble opinion)
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