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Author Topic: IETs into passenger service from 16 Oct 2017 and subsequent performance issues  (Read 543801 times)
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« Reply #1605 on: May 15, 2019, 20:21:21 »

With the launch of the Azuma (Brand name for Class 80x trains on LNER) I have watched many videos of the train and this is what I can gather from the interior:

I have once been on a IET (Intercity Express Train) with a failed PIS (Passenger Information System) (meaning the info screens were down) leading to reservations being outright cancelled and (before the Stonehouse extension) the Peer Trainer and the Trainee Train Manager had to walk up the train telling passengers where they could alright. They have signs at the end of the carriage with info on the coach and other useful bits of information.

As the wheelchair spaces are in coaches A and L, LNER» (London North Eastern Railway - about) has developed a common sense attitude where they have now made coach H the quiet coach so wheelchair passengers do not have to sit in the quiet carriage..

Obviously, the buffet-trolley system is a good option (with reasons I do not need to point out) and the fact that First Class customers get a more “First Class” service with meals and crockery being used is an upside.

LNER has been able to launch the train to the best of its ability rather than GWR (Great Western Railway) releasing it without the updated moquette, without proper signage, without checks to the reservation system and applicable updates and didn’t launch it on one of the busiest services they operate.

Yes, GWR had less time due to leasing but could there have been another way around this?

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« Reply #1606 on: May 16, 2019, 15:54:12 »


Clearly the quality of ride is (a) dependent on track, (b) speed and (c) in the absence of accelerometers the judgement is subjective...

There is, of course, an alternative to an accelerometer, as anyone (male only, at least I think so) who has been using a toilet as the train rounds a bend will know. It was a close call, but I managed to keep to the bowl. No failed PIS (Passenger Information System) involved.

On the 1648 Cardiff to Swansea (1445 ex Pad) last night, the lady sitting next to me asked me whether it was possible to get a drink on this train.

Just not thirsty enough.
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« Reply #1607 on: May 16, 2019, 16:13:42 »

Agree that B should be the quiet coach.  As when A isn’t being used by wheelchair bound passengers it is the obvious buggy space.
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« Reply #1608 on: May 17, 2019, 04:26:58 »

Agree that B should be the quiet coach.  As when A isn’t being used by wheelchair bound passengers it is the obvious buggy space.

Having the wheelchair space in the quiet coach does indeed make for problems with noisy wheelchair and wheelchair space users;  everyone is different and that applies to those who have to use wheelchairs - including the subset of wheelchair users with Tourette Syndrome.  Not sure how common that combination is nationwide nor of the travel habits of such people, but I see them on a pretty regular basis.

Quiet carriage is probably at the end to reduce the noise / disturbance of people passing through, though.  No sure how much of an issue that is, now that refreshments come to passenger's seats - are there any stats on numbers of people walking along inside trains?

On a lighter note, I travelled with IsamBIRD in the quiet carriage / a wheelchair space not otherwise needed by a wheelchair on that journey.  It was a real hoot - with everyone wanting to take his portrait and talking about him.  He told me that all he wanted to do was sleep, being daytime - but the noise of people discussing him in the quiet carriage made that rather hard.

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« Reply #1609 on: May 17, 2019, 06:05:15 »


On a lighter note, I travelled with IsamBIRD in the quiet carriage / a wheelchair space not otherwise needed by a wheelchair on that journey.  It was a real hoot - with everyone wanting to take his portrait and talking about him.  He told me that all he wanted to do was sleep, being daytime - but the noise of people discussing him in the quiet carriage made that rather hard.

The pressure is getting to him... Graham is talking to an owl!   Grin
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« Reply #1610 on: May 17, 2019, 06:26:09 »

Huge respect to Graham for travelling with such a large, unusual but amazing piece of luggage.
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« Reply #1611 on: May 17, 2019, 06:58:22 »

Huge respect to Graham for travelling with such a large, unusual but amazing piece of luggage.

Thank you - the exercise was well planned and indeed has a serious purpose which I'll write up at a later point.   It went remarkably well - but taught me some things too.

P.S. Isambird is outside the Conditions of Travel size limits but within wheelchair dimensions, and was specially authorised to make these journeys by train by GWR (Great Western Railway)
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« Reply #1612 on: May 17, 2019, 07:02:40 »

Huge respect to Graham for travelling with such a large, unusual but amazing piece of luggage.

I hope grahame paid £5 for 'oversize luggage' (same price as a surfboard)  Grin
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« Reply #1613 on: May 18, 2019, 12:00:45 »

Does anyone know the following.

In IET (Intercity Express Train) first class, what is the distance between seat back and the front edge of the table ?
And what is the corresponding measurement in HST (High Speed Train) first class.

It seems subjectively to be smaller on an IET, but perhaps my waist line has expanded.
Wondered if anyone has the actual dimensions.
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A proper intercity train has a minimum of 8 coaches, gangwayed throughout, with first at one end, and a full sized buffet car between first and standard.
It has space for cycles, surfboards,luggage etc.
A 5 car DMU (Diesel Multiple Unit) is not a proper inter-city train. The 5+5 and 9 car DMUs are almost as bad.
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« Reply #1614 on: May 18, 2019, 18:19:48 »

It seems subjectively to be smaller on an IET (Intercity Express Train), but perhaps my waist line has expanded.
Wondered if anyone has the actual dimensions.
With no buffet cars, I don't see how that could have happened!!  Grin Grin

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« Reply #1615 on: May 18, 2019, 18:43:22 »

I'd have thought this thread would have been suspended for today out of respect for you know what Grin Grin Grin
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« Reply #1616 on: May 19, 2019, 12:15:41 »

Reminded by the ending of tanking HSTs (High Speed Train) at Paddington - http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=21613.0 - anyone got any idea what these signs on the side of an IET (Intercity Express Train) are all about?

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« Reply #1617 on: May 19, 2019, 12:30:18 »

Urea could be for the diesel engines. Similar to AdBlue in a diesel car.

Aspic. No idea. Do GWR (Great Western Railway) plan to make fresh pork pies onboard?!  Tongue
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« Reply #1618 on: May 19, 2019, 12:43:13 »

ASPIC (Air Suspension Isolating Cock) might be Air ----- ---- Isolating Cock. Not sure what S and and P stand for.
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A proper intercity train has a minimum of 8 coaches, gangwayed throughout, with first at one end, and a full sized buffet car between first and standard.
It has space for cycles, surfboards,luggage etc.
A 5 car DMU (Diesel Multiple Unit) is not a proper inter-city train. The 5+5 and 9 car DMUs are almost as bad.
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« Reply #1619 on: May 19, 2019, 12:49:30 »

Don't think it's any of these:

https://www.acronymfinder.com/ASPIC.html
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