I think that upgrading seated passengers to berths is fairly standard practice when the seated coach is faulty, assuming there are any spare berths. Tuesday night in any direction on the Highlander is likely to be comparatively quiet at any time of year. Just under two years ago, I did Euston to Inverness on a Tuesday night in late August and both first and standard class were no more than a third full. In my experience, Tuesday is probably the most likely night of the week for there to be enough spare capacity for displaced seated passengers/walk-ups. We’re probably not yet in the absolute height of the season yet either, particularly as school holidays haven’t started in either Scotland or England. July and August are the busiest months for the Highlander, I think. I wouldn’t bank on there being any spare capacity on a Thursday or Friday night northbound or a Sunday or Monday night southbound at this time of year though, that’s for sure.
The delivery and introduction of the stock was significantly delayed and many months behind schedule.
sounds like just the kind of customer service initiative that seems to have been lacking in other parts of the CS operation mentioned in this thread from time to time. Well done to all concerned.
I imagine the showers may simply be too low down to have gravity drainage (unless it was directly to the track). I wonder if this is a problem particular to the uk loading gauge.
In a building context you normally look for a minimum of 18mm per m; a pipe running half the length of a 20m coach would need 180mm fall but then you have to add the depth of whatever tank it's being collected in, plus the vertical drop from the shower tray... pretty easy to see how quickly that could eat into whatever space you have between floor level and lowest part of undercarriage which can't be more than about 600mm. And I imagine it's no simple matter to find a continuous straight run threaded through everything else that has to fit under the floor... and presumably in a moving vehicle which can be on gradients and canted track and so on, the rate of fall that works in a static building context quickly becomes irrelevant. So I can see why it's probably inevitable there has to be some kind of pumped system.
The same tank that the toilet goes to?
It wouldn't save any space as the bog area can't be any smaller than it already is for practical use.
Unsure if this was from within Pip D's cabin or elsewhere. Does layout of coach etc mean that non en-suite cabins (which are a decent cost saving anyway!) are sufficiently far away from en-suite ones to remove one from noise of water sloshing and bog flushing in adjacent cabin?
