The Future of Train Interiors and Passenger Experience?!

[Ryston]

To have the seats and windows lined up should have been a fundamental requirement at the outset. I cannot understand why they were not designed that way. To sit in a large airline type window seat without a window is just too much for me. I have taken the option of standing rather then subject myself to the unbearable claustrophobia. (and I can spell it!)

[wyvern]

Originally Posted by ianrail

It shouldn't be like this, surely. If you can find a preserved railway to visit (for example, Peak Rail is quite near Sheffield) sit in one of their "Mark I" carriages. They were the standard type of carriage manufactured through the 1950s and 1960s, 64 seats to a carriage, four across, in groups of four around a table.

Just an afterthought. Most people think of compartment stock on heritage railways. What is being written about here is a FO or TO - First Open or Third Open - known to the LMS (eg Peak Rail) as a Tourist Open.