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Because I'm not (wilfully?) ignoring the fact that these things ACTUALLY EXIST on brand new stock in Germany.

In my head, just like yours.

Another one who knows what people who *don't* use the railway want.

As though a London businessman would be having a meeting in Birmingham in the first place! ;)

The 444s had one of those didn't they, it was for the guard though, not the passengers. LOL. They didn't use it much though 'cos it wasn't private enough. Double LOL.

Selection bias. You've been talking to people who do use the railways, not the people who don't. But thanks for telling me I don't know what I'm on about, it reflects well on your industry.

Say no more.

You've asked everyone, have you? Every office worker, every family? In the whole country? Really, all of them?

That's why you'd only need very few of them.

They're incredibly heavy for their size too, 49 tons is getting on for proper-loco weight.

Interesting how many of the arguments against seem to be along the lines of 'British railway passengers are uniquely awful', isn't it?

I think we're forgetting that the ICE compartments are basically three-sided glass partitions with a door.

Sounds like some of the trendier offices I've worked in, to be fair.

Looks like the new ECx Talgo trains are due to have kiddie compartments too, and they're so new they haven't been built yet.

Hey people used to build all sorts of things on top of old VW chassis.

ICE4 has a family compartment in first.

How about building a new coach on top of the Mark 3 bogies? There must be a hell of a lot of good examples going spare right now.

I used to be on the newsgroups, so I remember when 25kv bus lines along the train were totally impossible, as were passengers in a leading coach at 125mph. Later we couldn't posdibly have anything but a 373 in the Channel Tunnel and a bi-mode DEMU would never work. Then the tiny Voyager overhead...

Oldfield Park had one right 'til the end, it's a boring Sainsbury's local now.

Yes, why do these environmental movements always seem to end up doing something daft and counter-productive? It truly is a mystery... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Kennedy_(police_officer)#Ratcliffe_power_station_trial