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« Reply #30 on: April 30, 2017, 16:32:09 »
Very nice..and to pay for it the price is going up £10 a berth in late May £45 sharing & £70 singles.
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« Reply #31 on: April 30, 2017, 16:41:07 »
Looks very nice - I'll have to have a go on it again sometime as it was back in the British Rail days when I last had a trip on it.  I'll be interested to see how the brand new sleeper carriages being built for Caledonian Sleepers compare with this (impressive looking) makeover of old carriages.
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« Reply #32 on: April 30, 2017, 17:27:16 »
I know it tends to be very busy heading West on a Friday night and the other way on a Sunday night but how busy does the sleeper tend to be midweek? (Either way)
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« Reply #33 on: May 01, 2017, 20:28:25 »
I've never been on a UK▸ (United Kingdom) sleeper train and the last ones I went on anywhere were (nearly) back in the days of BR▸ (British Rail(ways)). France in the late 80s, parts of Soviet Union similar time, and Slovakia early 2000s. This new British sleeper looks nothing like any of them. It looks more like a rather luxurious version of the those Japanese pod hotels! A basin! A wardrobe! A key card! The French and Soviet sleepers had no locks whatsoever and you were sharing with strangers anyway, the Slovak one was un/locked by an attendant. What well cared for lives we live nowadays! (I still think I'd rather travel by day though as I find it difficult to sleep in trains, or buses, planes, etc.)
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« Reply #34 on: May 01, 2017, 22:00:56 »
In my younger days I have shared with strangers on both the Cornish and Scottish sleepers but too old for all that now.

After a couple of G&Ts I usually sleep quite well, particularly if I get my head down before the train leaves.

Having said that I've just had them and with the sleeper approaching Camborne I'm off to bed!
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« Reply #35 on: May 02, 2017, 13:35:08 »
Correction to my post above: on the Russian train we weren't in with strangers, it was just a huge group. It was more spacious and perhaps slightly comfier than the French one.
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