Re: BBC - Meeting over cuts to rail service

MIG <googlespam@doreenbird.co.uk> wrote:

> On 25 Jul, 10:45, Charlie Hulme <i...@davenportstation.org.uk> wrote:
> > EE507 wrote:
> > > Try the airline seats with partition
> > > immediately in front and no view - appalling.
> >
> > Are they always allocated to the people with cheap
> > advance tickets, or is it just a coincidence that I
> > always seem to get one?
> >
> > Charlie
>
> The first time I travelled in one, I was allocated a seat at the end
> of the coach where the first window didn't start till well beyond the
> high seat back in front of me.
>
> There was a completely pointless ledge which I couldn't get my elbow
> on because there was only about six inches of space above it (my upper
> arm has a shoulder above it that has to go somewhere).  If I let my
> arm hang down, this ledge then dug into me.
>
> I am not very large, and nor was the woman next to me, but I had to
> spend the whole three-hour journey with my body twisted because there
> was no room for my shoulders.
>
> The space is unnecessarily reduced by three inches of hollow plastic
> cladding on the walls.
>
> A horrible and painful experience.  They are a disgrace.

I'm short, so have less problems, but I agree that they are poorly
designed, and there's no room to properly use a lapop, unless you can
find a priority seat.

I took the TGV from Marseilles to Paris last week, and I was impressed
that in the 'airline' style seats, there was enough room to pull down
the table and work on a laptop etc.- it was extremely comfortable, and
even on a full carriage (we were seated on the upper deck) it didn't
seem cramped at all. They really have got the design right IMO.

It was a stunning travel experience, I recommend it highly. The speed
allows you to really experience the climate change from Provence as it
travels north, the landscape changing, moving from olive groves, to
sunflower fields and eventually to the kind of landscape which isn't a
world away from bucolic England. Also, some really impressive gradients
just north of Avignon- you actually could feel the train 'lift.' All
that for 20 euro! :)

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