Bring your own chair

[whole diary]

[dog box]

Toilets are always smelly on voyagers

[zebedee]

And people never close the doors!  POOOOOOO!

[devonian]

Needed to bring your own chair this morning!

Why do people feel the need to claim two seats for themselves? Are their bags so vitally important that they require comfort (if that exists on voyagers) of their own? Do they consider the rest of us scum?

I deliberately chose to ask the woman who had blatently set up her two seats so noone would sit next to her to move her stuff despite an easier seat being available further up the carriage. Pisses me off royally. She moved them - rather begrudgingly though. Grrrrr.....

[zebedee]

Aye, it was a busy train this morning, the service is suffering from being a carriage down, no chance of a window seat looking over the sea this morning..... 

I too hate the whole "I'll put my bag on the seat next to me so that I don't get anyone near me".  Maybe just don't even ask, just pick the bag up and throw it on the floor!

[devonian]

This is where we need it to be an HST^▸ (High Speed Train) and follow Mookiemoo's example of direct action - out the window with it!

[zebedee]

Ha ha, yes - I think she has shown us the way!

[dog box]

Worst thing VXC^▸ (Virgin Cross Country - former franchise) ever did was replace HSTs^▸ (High Speed Train) with voyagers the nasty things have been continually overcrowded from Day 1

[Chris from Nailsea]

Agree. It's a shame Wessex caved in to the bikes lobby. It's so antisocial to lean a bike against the three sideways tip up seats thus depriving 3 people of a seat. Yet I often see it happen. 

John, I agree with you entirely on this one - with specific reference to the regularly crowded 1753 BTM^▸ (Bristol Temple Meads (strictly, it should be BRI)) to Nailsea. Folding bikes, which compact to the size of a (large) suitcase, perhaps fair enough - but to the full size mountain bikes, which some people force onto the carriages, scraping your legs with all the muck from the tyres without so much as an 'excuse me' - No!  As you say, one mountain bike, let alone two or three, takes up the space of three standing adults and prevents three more people from using the fold-down seats.  Bikes that do not fold down should be barred from such peak commuter services.

As to their stowage on HSTs^▸ (High Speed Train) ... well, FGW^▸ (First Great Western) themselves have admitted that the rather Heath Robinson arrangement in the guard's van was 'over-engineered', so hopefully those will be removed to make room for a more sensible rack soon!