Something observed recently when travelling home after visiting family. I know that passengers like to see a clean train when they board. At Liv St there are a team of cleaners waiting to clean incoming trains. One thing I did notice though is that some passengers don't give the cleaners time to actually clean the train before trying to board. This problem is of course not isolated to Liverpool St. I notice at Euston that staff do not allow passengers acces to the platform before the trains is ready but the layout of Eustom seems to make that easier.
It really annoys me when I see people complain how dirty a train is and that there is rubbish all over the place but some people don't actually give the cleaners chance to clean the train.
I have in the past boarded a train before it's been cleaned, I'll always make sure that I am not obstructing the cleaners in their duties though. If the cleaner hasn't already passed my area of the train I'll be sure to move any rubbish to the edge of the tabe so that the cleaner doesn't have to lean in when they do get there and can instead easily remove the rubbish from the edge of the table.
Same applies for the catering assistant when they make their way through the train with their food trolley. If I see them making their way through the coach I will wait in vestibule area until they've passed. They're often grateful too and kind enough to thank me for it. The amount of time I've witnessed someone asking the catering assistant if they can pass the trolley is stupid, they're genuinely shocked when they're told they'll have to wait until the trolley reachrs the end of the coach befor they'll be able to pass.
It annoys me that passengers are always moaning the trains are dirty, yet leave all their crap behind when they get off.
If it wasn't for passengers on a train, they would be spotless.
I see this (well until December anyway) most mornings the cleaners going through the train at either Richmond and Stratford taking out at least two sacks of metros whilst passengers bring two sacks of metros back on :roll:
The railway was a much cleaner place without the free crappy newspapers strangely from the same stable as the Mail.
I'm forever finding my reserved table seats with a mountain of coffee cups and food packaging. Most recently I've found this on the 0913 FGW service from Temple Meads to Penzance, this is 0730 service from Paddington. I know it's of no fault of FGW but by the time the train does reach Bristol the bind are already full. No excuse for passangers to just leave rubbish anywhere but if passangers were provided with the facilities to keep the train tidy perhaps they'd be more inclined too.
EMT staff go though the train collecting rubbish before arrival at Sheffield. XC seem to have toilet cleaners that board at Sheffield, do their stuff and get off at Chesterfield (and presumably do the same on the next train back)
XC have cleaners board somewhere a fee stops before Paignton and whip through the train clearing rubbish and swapping out old reservation cards for new cards. They then alight at Paignton and seem to board the next service back to wherever they came from and do the same again.
XC also have staff that come through the train collecting rubbish midjourney but this isn't a regular thing. I think it would be a good idea if the catering assistant was to tag a bag onto the trolley and collect rubbish as they made their way through the train.
The Metro is nothing more than a cynical advertising revenue vehicle. There is absolutely no need or justification for it when you can go into any newsagent now and buy a 'proper' daily paper of better quality for as little as 20 pence. It really is high time somebody looked at the enormous waste created by these spurious free publications.
Here in Bristol we have a free paper through our doors that has the same principle of the metro: 3 pages of news and 20-25 pages of advertisements. I don't actually know of anyone who reads them, everyone I know keeps them only to line their brown food recycling bins.
about how dirty the trains are and how much rubbish is all over the train. Firstly it is passengers who leave the rubbish in the first place but some people don't give the cleaners chance to clear up the rubbish that has been left.
