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Yep, vertical narrow storage for 1.25 bikes on a train is a useless pile of shit. Still, it "is" "cycle provision" I suppose. If only it was way better, with a much larger capacity.
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The new Class 800’s, which I believe are what are in the photos (although they talk about Cross Country who have have 220 voyagers which take 3 bikes and are shit) which have provision for 4 bikes, which I’ve used 3 times now with no issues
Previously you could book 3 on a HST class 43 (although 17 is the record held by BCC 😂 ) and 4 on a class 91, even though you could get a shitload in the rear car.
So it’s an improvement in official numbers terms, but after that, yes, there is no excess space.
The same applies to baggage, sadly
Ecobeard
Quite a long article about some recent complaints from train passengers:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/bike-blog/2019/nov/04/rail-companies-bike-policy-bicycle-storage-trains
Nothing new, really, but always interesting to take the temperature, and informative if you haven't looked into this before.