Reasons for Making a Noise in the Quiet Coach

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[Timmer]

Only slightly O/T, but does anyone know why the first class quiet coach is G ? would not the end coach, H be more logical ?

I'd like that  Can't see FGW^▸ (First Great Western) actually changing the 1st quiet coach around but you never know.

[laird]

It would seem to make far more sense if it was H, true near Paddington passengers would walk through the carriage. In practice though I think the quiet element of the carriage usually doesn't apply near there anyway as people settle down, unpack, repack etc.

I did wonder if the quiet zone customers were more likely to make use of the buffet and that was the reasoning behind placing them in G rather than H but it would seem strange if that was the logic since the standard class carriage is A so just as far as possible from the buffet.



Thinking about my personal use of coach G, I do sometimes sit there with the mobile phone on silent in the hopes I don't disturb anyone else, the quietest carriage I ever experienced though was Coach F. Thanks to a very good pullman stewardess, any other passenger entering the carriage was chased off while we diners enjoyed our meals.
Travelling from Plymouth to Reading it coincided with a Friday race meeting at Newbury, the additional call was announced and made. Naturally a large number of passengers fresh with their new found wealth joinged First Class and were rapidly chased into Carriage G to allow us to finish. I think some even ended up standing in the vestibule to my embarrasment as I had a table of four to myself.

[broadgage]

Is it permitted, in the quiet coach, to sit upon a thief in order to restrain them until the plod arrive ?
Even if said thief squeals like a stuck pig, rendering the coach defiantly not quiet.
I did once.

[Chris from Nailsea]

Well done, broadgage! 

I'd say that, if the thief chooses to squeal like a stuck pig, in a quiet coach, then that is just one more offence that they commit. 

[broadgage]

Thanks, it was a while ago.
I saw someone take a wallet out of a jacket pocket, at first I only observed because I felt it might be their own wallet being removed to make a purchase from the buffet, or show a ticket.
When however they moved as if to alight at Reading WITH the wallet, but WITHOUT the jacket, this clearly suggested theft and I challenged them.
The thief attempted run to down the length of G, but someone tripped them up by throwing luggage in the gangway, I sat upon them whilst others called for plod who arrived promptly.
It all made a considerable noise and comotion in the quiet coach, but in a good cause.