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Sorry, trains don’t go through long trains they go through long tunnels. :-( I’m not sure if it’s predictive text or tiredness- I’m going to bed!

Are you talking about the height of the seat or the pitch :-)

1). I believe it was in 1963/64. The customary procedure then was to lock the doors of sleeper trains to prevent somnambulists hurting themselves. Dirty linen was piled up against a heater and 16 people died. Nothing to do with seats directly. However, they have to take in to account the...

The £8.00 is for an extra 2” of foam. Length of journey is considered but I’m not sure it carries much weight. Which brings me on to another subject - weight. Seat manufacturers are targeted with an all up weight (no meal tray, grab handle or armrest) of around 26-28Kg. They will always try...

A couple of things here, spring cases are very good, but..... if they break they can puncture - in extrem cases your skin. Years ago it got to a rediculous situation where LUL (now TfL) we’re paying out thousands, some say hundreds of thousand for damaged clothing. Funny how 99% of the tube...

“comfort” testing nowadays is usually done by pressure mapping the seat with either an anthropomorphic dummy or a real Person. Many years ago for the Network seat (first fully composite seat used in the UK) used on class 365/465 I had Southampton University get 50 students from a random...

I run a company that makes the urethane foam used in train seats (suspended graphite foam). I supply most if not all domestic train seat manufacturers/ refurbishers as well as some in Europe. Whilst it is true that I have to comply with some of the most demanding Fire, smoke & toxicity (FST)...