An IET refurbishment would be an easy win for the new GBRail organisation

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Glad to see the 195's Being appriceated! Their m Fav DMU's for a reason, They look stunning! They have nice interiors can get a bit cramped but that's alright and they have if I'm honest pretty good seats even tho There literal iron boards 195 over a the too Uncomfy 150's any day!

Having been on a few US trains (Only commuter rail systems) and having been on the GWR class 800 there is a stark difference between seat comfort. You can see how in older trains in the US (which need a lot of refurbishment and or replacement) have so much more comfort than something like the IETs. Being someone who likes a good comfortable seat there are so many options that they could've chosen but they chose those. Having lived in Oxford for a semester and having to take the bus almost every day, the seats on something like Oxford Bus Companies buses are surprising comfortable. Like just add a little more cushion and I am okay with sitting on those for a long period of time. Its wild how these choices are made without regard to comfort.

444s are my favourite train and i love seeing and riding on them. Everything about them is amazing!

"The premium train is too expensive, to save money you can take the regular train, but it's not exactly premium level service" No duh.

I think I need to say one thing that many will agree with about caf.. CAF = cheap as fuck Additionally I think I should mention that it’s 67008 who likes to just give up a lot of the time but yes many of the 67s do have their problems too 🤦 i think it would’ve been nice to see 68s but that’s just my opinion

Probably the class 197 units the worst units in the UK uncomfortable seats and awful rough riding heaps of junk

They could add a light railway service in Bristol similar to London’s DLR with all the rail beds laying about.

The old 125 seats were 👍

I thought the 231's were battery diesel multiple units?

I dont think an underground would be the awnser (although I would love it) but an overground could work

Not a bad summary. Re the point about cross-border transport planning, this is why the Metro Mayor was introduced to span those boundaries (a bit like Avon Mark II). As for the m2 bus route, the Winterstoke Road flyover, exclusively for that route, is an eyesore.

I don’t think there any really good points in this video. Trains are about moving people, I don’t care if it’s a pretty station. Britains high speed rail that’s supposed to be faster and more frequent than the Shinkansen, well, doesn’t exist yet.

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1:47 Why did you show a ticket from a different country?

13:10 i wouldn't say they are confident, because they have a map with trains, where we can see info about trains like delay. Even in Czech Republic we have these live maps for trains (datel app or web grapp where you can also find actual or future upgrades) and for public transport (litacka app or web mapa pid for example where even subway trains are shown (thats overkill by me)) and trains in our country are delayed quite a lot. So i would say it is considered as part of information for passengers, not as boosting morale or something😂

Class 185s would now best be put to use with Northern on Tyne Tees routes (and beyond to Carlisle) and maybe a Sunderland to York on which 3 carriages would be perfect.

I’ve heard the new Amtrak venture car seats are super uncomfortable

1 CAF train i would say is good is the NIR c3k and c4k train sets in northern ireland

The new cross country trains don’t seem to meet accessibility standards regarding contrast between seats, flooring and tables either! That is needed for visually impaired people. Just another Avenue to complain

I have recently travelled on the new trains and I found them to be a great improvement on the old rolling stock they replaced. I was mostly pleased with the new train, but there were two things that affected the quality of my journey and you've actually covered them both in the video, so it's not just me. For my first journey I sat in a 2 seat configuration and I found the seat back to be hard and uncomfortable. Sitting in the window seat I found the tubular seat strut to be a nuisance and uncomfortable, especially if you have big feet like me. I moved to the ailse seat and this provided good legroom. You commented on this point and it is illustrated at 3:49 and 4:54 in the video. I find it hard to accept that this feature has been designed in, but its probably to enhance cleaning of the carriage. Unfortunately at the expense of passenger comfort. The second journey I made was for a shorter time and in a 4 seat table configuration. I didn't experience any problems on that journey. Overall a significant step forward. Thanks for making this video.

That picture from the HS2 reminds me - I must book my dental check up soon!

Train interiors were sorted out in the 1930s. Ironing boards are not uncomfortable if the profile is correct. The information has been known and freely available for the past 70 years 😂

I have to disagree with you on the current cross country seats. They're so uncomfortable and unnecessarily big and clunky, consuming a lot of space and giving nothing back in comfort for the space that they take. I'm always disappointed when I need to travel via cross country as their carriages are absolutely awful, the digital seat displays are stupid and it's always a battle to get just a small sized suitcase in and out of the overhead storage. I'm unsure what seats the LNER Avanti use (apologies if you said in the vidoe) but they're slim, providing more leg room and perhaps more seating (something there is never enough of on a cross country) and in my opinion they're so much more comfortable dispite their slim profile. Obviously comfort is a personal preference so we all have our own opinion 😊

Avanti did do a very good job on keeping the original seats rather than the feza leans. But some of the avanti voyagers have been withdrawn… 4:48

NS ICNG seats are'nt any better either

De-personalisation, .,. . .the Design School way.

As "Der Weisse engel" said in Marathon Man . ."There's a simple choice to be made in life . . between discomfort and relief"

Train interiors are to match the San Quentin prison bus stop style "Parkway" stations . . .grim . .grim . . grim

The Avanti Pendolino and Scotrail Class 156 refurbishments definitely feel like a downgrade.

This is not on 😡

Surely Recaro could come up with something better

I cannot imagine CC interiors can get worse, I’ve done the 3.5 hours between Nottingham and Cardiff multiple times and I will never use them again.

The TfW 158 seats will remain one of my faves!

Amtrak's very quickly going the Way of the UK with shitty seats in their Venture cars built by Siemens. Lots of people dislike them, and prefer the current seats in the Amfleet/Horizon coaches.

Simple reason why. NOBODY LIKES TRAINS! The only people who use them HAVE to, so they can give whatever terrible service and people will still use them. We need regulations to make them have more comfortable seats.

Everytime I watch one of your videos, I have to question if we aren't actually the same person...?? I agree with basically everything you raise!

Had the misfortune to spend the last three hours of my holiday on an LNER Azuma. Never again, I’d rather travel by coach even though the journey time is nearly twice as long.

Despite the overcrouded horror that the Voyagers are, I do like the seats

If HS2 is only ever built to Birmingham that will be a 30 minute trip, not much point to a first class or any sort of lounge or buffet car. XC aren't the only ones that love long distances on tiny DMUs, TfW is legendary for using 2 car 197s for runs between Cardiff and Holyhead, which is nearly 4 hours, 2 car 197s where the single toilet is broken more often than not. Though the seats on the 197s aren't awful, they use an upgraded version of the standard class seats from the 80x

I still don't get why no-one has implemented the same seats as on DB intercity trains (the blue cloth ones with pillows). They're by far the most comfortable seats on the entire Dutch railway network, and they operate just one line here! Almost all of our (NS) trains have awfull rockhard ironing boards covered in fake leather. Such a waste.

The seats in the new cars Siemens built for Amtrak are absolute garbage.

SBB has horrible seats in the Flirt train and in all other Stadler trains. In case of the Giruno train you could be seating in ironing boards for 8 hours.

Department for Transport specs demanded these types of seats in commuter trains especially, stack them and rack them for busy commuter train travel. This directive changed around 2022 when the focus shifted to off peak travel, however as you well know, it's too little too late for most travellers etc ...

7:22 these seats are fitted on Czech Railways' 2nd class in the newest long distance trains and in some regional trains 1st class. I think that the Slovak Railways use them for their newest 1st class products. I can say from experience that they're quite comfortable, imo little better than what ICEs have, largely thanks to the headrests. They have a nice ergonomic design, comfy even when not reclined. The nice thing about them is that when they're not reclined they're quite hard but when they're reclined they're very soft, so you can choose.

Try travelling on the awful 197 units used on long distance and not so long distance trains . awful rough riding units with horrible seats are not good to travel on but better than the abysmal iet units

The marxist LGBT flag should be banned.

Both Buses and Trains seats are dreadful just a bit of fabric on plastic should really have a standard in place that stops this.

Still remember getting a peek inside the Scotrail 156s (thankfully didn't have to travel on one) and got jumpscared by ironing boards which I would imagine they got when refurbished to meet PRM requirements. The 385 seats are bad enough already but on the 156s you could be traveling for as much as 5 and a half hours. Good luck to anyone traveling on those.