From the Telegraph: Virgin Trains have cooked up a scheme to transport passenger’s luggage by road because of the lack of luggage space in their silly, far too small Voyagers.
The Virgin spokesman denied that the luggage problem was caused by a design fault in the Voyager. “People are just taking more luggage with them these days and we are looking at ways of making their journeys as comfortable as possible.”
When Virgin first introduced those tinny things, the first thing everybody said was “where’s the luggage space”. These trains are used on busy holiday routes to Bournemouth, Devon and Cornwall. On the old trains they replaced, Virgin had taken out a bay of seats in every coach to make room for an additional luggage stack. And those luggage racks were always full of bags. And these trains also had more seats and more coaches. Nobody at Virgin Trains should have been under any illusion that their long distance passengers, whose travels tend to involve overnight stays, carry luggage. Instead they dream up a new train with an interior layout best suited for short distance commuter journeys. What were they thinking?
(Link from Dodgeblogium)
Nice to see that mr Bransons new trains (if you can call them that) are mainly out of traffic. Looks like a london underground notice. Only 70% of the fleet are out due to the bolts on the transmition have come losse! Well built and maintained lads and lasses. Good to see that Virgin have managed though with the longest delay at 65 min. Will that count people left to wait for trains behinde the one they wanted as it was only 4/5 coaches? My coment is ‘i dout it verry much’.
In the days of 12 car trains, the luggage racks were suitable even for people to lie in! that’s what I call substantial