 Simplified ticket purchase
In message <1223102631.23459.0@proxy00.news.clara.net>, at 07:41:00 on
Sat, 4 Oct 2008, Walter Mann <unsol@wjm.clara.net> remarked:
>>>>Fifteen minutes into the trip the train manager moved all the FC
>>>>passengers from coach F to the two carriages beyond (there's far too
>>>>much FC in pretty much all these Meridians) and declassified it.
>>>>Everyone gratefully dashed in.
>>>
>>>Sounds like common sense.
>>
>> It generated a lot of goodwill.
>
> .. amongst the passengers in 1st Class?
They were all moved into the front two carriages, which presumably had
plenty of space for them. I don't know what was said to them, whether it
was about the overcrowding in Standard, or they could have just said "we
won't be providing catering in all three FC carriages this evening", and
thereby persuade them to move. The tannoy announcement about
declassifying did mention that it was only a seat, and no catering.
What they really need, of course, are trains with more than three and
half coaches of Standard accommodation (four coaches less a shop and
less the bike store/crumple zone). If they put on a 4-car 158 or similar
for such a service everyone would be aghast, but a 7-car Meridian
*looks* like it's got more standard accommodation in it than it actually
has.
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Roland Perry |