Train stations and traveller interaction

[ladymuck]

I actually like train travel but I despise bus/coach travel so rail replacement buses is like doubling down on the tulipness.


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The way coach drivers drive makes me feel queasy. They seem to ride the accelerator so every so slightly speeding up / slowing down all the time. I don't know if that's a feature of the cruise control (do coaches have that?) or the way drivers are taught to maintain speed but it messes with my head and makes me feel ill.

I don't mind a bus as that's only ever a short trip and the nature of the traffic means there's no chance of getting up to any decent speed that needs to be maintained for a while.

[Protagoras]

The way coach drivers drive makes me feel queasy. They seem to ride the accelerator so every so slightly speeding up / slowing down all the time. I don't know if that's a feature of the cruise control (do coaches have that?) or the way drivers are taught to maintain speed but it messes with my head and makes me feel ill.

I know that one. I've been on flights were I was the only one not sick, sailed in boats from 8m to cruise liners no problem, but 5 miles on a bus or coach and I'll be sick as a dog!

Some people apparently even get sick on these tilting trains.

[quackhandle]

If I am facing direction of train, the tilting bit doesn't bother me, but if it is the 'wrong direction'...


I scarred myself with coach travel when I was 17 and went to Lloret de Mar to visit my sister, 24 hours on a coach, London to Catalunya, you do daft tulip when you are young and stupid.


Driver only one tape on endless loop: Elton John's Greatest Hits. I still seem to twitch every time I hear Crocodile Rock or Bennie and The Jets.

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[ladymuck]

I know that one. I've been on flights were I was the only one not sick, sailed in boats from 8m to cruise liners no problem, but 5 miles on a bus or coach and I'll be sick as a dog!

Some people apparently even get sick on these tilting trains.

Boats and planes - no problem! Although I've not experienced a proper mid-Atlantic swell there's still chance yet to 'enjoy' the side effects of that.

The tilting trains are ok but not done too many of them. I find I prefer to sit with my back to the direction of travel if I'm to not get eye strain/headache from staring out the window.