If I am travelling on a train I always have my bag on the adjacent seat if there are a lot of spare seats available, then as the train starts to fill up with more passengers I then remove my bag from the seat. If I encountered someone like yourself who insisted on sitting next to me just because I had my bag on the seat, to make a point I would simply leave my seat and sit in another unoccupied seat.
I tend to wait until the train has departed before sitting down, but don't get myself comfortable for a few minutes.
This! I was on a train at Three Bridges that was held to wait for an attaching portion quite late on a winters evening. Some chap decided he had enough time for a cigarette but to make sure he wouldn't miss the train kept the doors open the whole time. The wind was absolutely freezing.
Having seen larger backs stacked in racks rather precariously, and some.even fall out, they may not be idle but rather concerned about damaging their items. Electrostsr racks always seemed tiny in particular
Quite. If the driver doesn't see you he certainly isn't going to notice as twenty wagons of his train run over you. And your own mother probably won't recognise you afterwards.
Once had someone on a busy train out of Euston trying to claim that I was sat in their reserved seat. Whilst it was indeed for the right carriage and the exact same seat, the main problem was that their reservation was for the train that had departed some 20 minutes earlier!
Out of curiosity, was the bus experience in Manchester, along the Oxford Road corridor?
Yes Redhill has this large problem with the back entrance as that is where the car park is for short stays so naturally everyone crowds around the driver depot and this abdnoned office block just smoking/vaping Etc.One railway etiquette thing I'd like to bring up is people smoking by station entrances. It really should be encouraged to be done elsewhere, but my local station has big ashtray things both sides of the door. Hardly a welcome approach, but then my local station isn't really all that clued up sometimes
See aboveOnce had someone on a busy train out of Euston trying to claim that I was sat in their reserved seat. Whilst it was indeed for the right carriage and the exact same seat, the main problem was that their reservation was for the train that had departed some 20 minutes earlier!
No, it was in Birmingham about 30 years ago.
Ah! When I was a bus driver in Manchester a few years ago, there was a lady who regularly used to do this! She was actually very polite to the drivers but she drove the students mad with her preaching. I thought it was great when she got on the bus because the regular passengers used to dive off and catch the following service, resulting in me having a free-running journey!!!
The sorts of bags that people usually put on seats are generally the small variety that can go under the seat if necessary, though.
Not on the 1652 Euston-Birmingham via Northampton on Fridays, when people are going away for the weekend.
350s have excellent underseat luggage storage spaces
Why would you need a massive suitcase if you're only going away for the weekend? Just take your normal day sack and chuck in a pair of socks and pants and a toothbrush!
Written by a true bloke. My OH never travels without at least three alternate outfits....
Hockey goalkeepers bags and trains don't go together!! In fact, the former and cars don't either, never managed to et his kit into my i10!!
Absolutely. Been on several trains in the last few days and nearly every time someone in the carriage is sniffling continuously.Just one word… sniffing. Constantly and loudly without any consideration for how gross it sounds to other people. Just recently there seems to be one in every carriage, usually a couple of rows from me.
