Coach and Train Tips!

bobbyss

I take a lot of both train and coach trips. I hate having to share a seat on a coach and if ever I do have to share I almost never speak to the passenger beside me as you never know if that person is going to be a chatterbox when all you want is a bit of peace and quiet.

To avoid this I always sit on an aisle seat. And I always sit towards the very front of the bus. Not the very first seat as there is a barrier in front of your feet and you end up cramped. I would say 90% of people who board a coach bypass the first few seats automatically and make their way down the aisle. I don't know how many times when the bus is almost full I end up with a spare seat beside me because when people find that seats are occupied they turn around and take the first available seat heading back to the front.

In a four carriage train sometimes (though not often to be fair) there is reduced capacity. So if , for example, if you are booked in carriage D and a carriage is taken away it will be carriage D leaving carriage A,B and C. Once I was booked on D and the train left with only 3 carriages all those in carriage D had no place to sit as all other carriages were booked out.

I also noted that once when I had booked into carriage C (lets say C 64) and the train had reduced capacity -meaning that there was no carriage D- there was no C 64. The seats in carriage C stopped at 60 or something like that.

So it seems when a carriage is lost to a service it does seem to affect the configuration of other carriages.

So when I book a train ticket, I never book carriage D in a four carriage train and it is always a low seat number.

Anybody else have any experiences around this?