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Destination blind
Martin Edwards wrote:
On 10/23/2015 9:46 PM, Recliner wrote: Charles Ellson wrote: On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 16:02:47 +0000 (UTC), Recliner wrote: Yes, the thickness of the cushions seems to be proportional to the age of the train. There have been articles on this topic in Modern Railways. They seem thicker than on the 313s which preceded them. No, the 378 seats are really hard, much worse than the 313s. The new Victoria line 2009 stock also has thin, hard seats. Like much else that is wrong today, it has its roots in the Thatcher era. It was assumed that everyone would eventually have cars and the railways would die out. Today's problems are caused not by malice, but the unprecedented demand on rail travel, especially to, from and round London. I'm not sure how you can blame decisions on seat comfort that were taken under Labour governments on Thatcher? I wouldn't blame any particular government for things like that, but if you must blame a government, surely the decisions were taken in the Brown era? Of course what we can thank the Thatcher government for are the JLE and DLR. |
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