Quiet zones

[thenorthern]

Remember the case with moaning kids though "oh he is really an angel normally" or "he is just a bit tired". Its never the parents fault that their kids are crying its always someone else's fault so I should deal with it.

 

[londonbridge]

...When asked for his name and address I wonder if he tried 'Don't you know who I am?'. I'd definitely have replied 'no idea'...

I don't know about you but that reply from me would have been completely truthful as well

And me.

 

[Cheshire Rover]

The TOC might not be able to do anything but an angry looking northern bloke suggesting rather bluntly that you cease and desist with your mobile based telephony often does the trick

Did it yesterday on a Virgin train from Glasgow. Perpetrator quickly left for the vestibule.
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What constitutes as Noise in the quiet zone? I personally find moaning kids and chatty women annoying but that maybe just me.

Telephones.
Music leaking from headsets or earphones.
Any conversation that is not hushed. Chatty women and business folk are the usual guilty parties.
Laptops not on mute.
Snorers.
Children.

 

[Taunton]

For me the greatest Quiet Coach annoyance is the continuous stream of PA announcements. Why cannot these be suppressed in these vehicles. Long lists of every little stop the service will make, repeated after every stop. Lengthy diatribes from the refreshment vehicle about what is on offer. Admonitions about where the emergency instructions can be found, remembering to take everything with you, be careful in case the platform is slippery, no luggage on seats, you can't use tickets of type X, Y or Z, make sure you have tied your shoelaces, yadda, yadda, yadda - all repeated after every stop.

Quiet means Quiet. Not just me being so.

 

[trainophile]

I'm shocked to learn that (if I were a Quiet coach user, which I tend not to be) I might be an unwitting offender with my Apple 5th Gen iPod earbuds. I always connect the lead to my appliance (usually phone these days, iPods being a bit passé ) and start my music before putting them in my ears, to make sure that (a) it is properly connected in the socket, and (b) there is no leakage.

Of course you might not always be able to tell with the other noise going on in a train carriage, but I did once ask someone whether they could hear anything from my 'phones and they assured me they couldn't.

Perhaps there should be a sign in Quiet coaches, something like "If you use audio equipment in this carriage, be aware that other passengers may request you to reduce the volume if externally audible".

 

[455driver]

Perhaps there should be a sign in Quiet coaches, something like "If you use audio equipment in this carriage, be aware that other passengers may request you to reduce the volume if externally audible especially if it is the cheapy crap supplied with Apple phones".

Amended that a bit for accuracy!

 

[Mugby]

I was on an EMT service from Nottingham to London yesterday and not in the quiet coach admittedly but a group of people were being rather annoyingly noisy, talking very loudly and laughing with excessive volume. I was quite surprised to find it was a group of ladies who all appeared to be over seventy. Saga louts!

 

[Domh245]

If I suspect my earphones are loud, I will usually take them out, cover the inwards facing bit, and them hold them a distance away from my ears (the sort of distance someone else might be away from it - for example, quite close in the morning commute), If I can hear it, I turn it down, If i can't hear it, then I carry on.

 

[Bob Ames]

Perhaps there should be a sign in Quiet coaches, something like "If you use audio equipment in this carriage, be aware that other passengers may request you to reduce the volume if externally audible".

Perhaps there ought to be that sign in all the coaches.

As the quiet coach is also the bike coach, I always find myself in there. The irony is that I actually enjoy listening to others' conversations and would rather not be in the quiet coach. In fact, my favourite kind of bash is being surrounded by students discussing coextensive dual dichotomies and their favourite sci-fi authors - it just amuses me no end to hear ostensibly intelligent people talking a load of cr@p!

 

[Stigy]

I'm not sure I agree that (if the case is as reported) there are no potential byelaw offences:

Byelaw 7 could also fit the offence. Not necessarily in this case, but certainly for other noise nuisance in quiet zones or anywhere else to be honest. Quiet zones just serve to back up the charge as the passenger has, to all intents been warned.

 

[Flying Snail]

As the quiet coach is also the bike coach, I always find myself in there. The irony is that I actually enjoy listening to others' conversations and would rather not be in the quiet coach. In fact, my favourite kind of bash is being surrounded by students discussing coextensive dual dichotomies and their favourite sci-fi authors - it just amuses me no end to hear ostensibly intelligent people talking a load of cr@p!

I suspect you are in the minority. There are more than enough people I know that talk drivel, I have no need to listen to extra helpings from strangers while trapped in confined spaces with them.

I dislike the whole Quiet Coach concept. More often than not it is ignored by idiots and it also infers that making excessive noise in non-quiet coaches is acceptable.

 

[trainophile]

I don't so much mind hearing people talking drivel among themselves, provided it's not at unreasonably high volume, but for some reason being subjected to one end of a mobile conversation, for anything beyond basic arrangement-making, irritates me intensely. I always keep any phone calls in anywhere public short and to-the-point - for one thing why would I want everyone in range to hear my private conversations?

Some people have no sense of decorum these days :roll:

[/meldrew mode]

 

[wensley]

Currently sat in the 'Quiet Zone' on a Chiltern service from MYB-BMO and it's anything but quiet! So much for trying to get any work done ... just been treat to a rendition of Angry Birds theme music ... how lovely :roll:

 

[455driver]

If I suspect my earphones are loud, I will usually take them out, cover the inwards facing bit, and them hold them a distance away from my ears (the sort of distance someone else might be away from it - for example, quite close in the morning commute), If I can hear it, I turn it down, If i can't hear it, then I carry on.

Which is all well and good as long as the earphones make a 100% seal when in the ear just as your finger would when doing your test!

It is more a question of the sound leaking out between the earphone and ear than it leaking out the back of the earphones.