Using disabled toilets

[Amor de Cosmos]

Toronto area commuter trains.

[Nocturnal Submission]

The double-decker coaches are impressive if a bit ugly:

[DCI Harry Batt]

Quite ugly, yeah. Why "GO" though? Is it just some branding shit?

[ursus arctos]

Government of Ontario

[WOM]

I sit upstairs, branded The Quiet Zone. It's where all your anti-socials gather to sit and ignore each other.

[Jah Womble]

'Quiet' is good, obviously. I always book the Quiet Coach on LNER - that way there's around a 23% chance that other passengers therein mightn't ignore the many, many announcements and notices to the effect that conversations should be kept to a minimum and mobile calls taken in the vestibule area.

[Nocturnal Submission]

I sit upstairs, branded The Quiet Zone. It's where all your anti-socials gather to sit and ignore each other.

Can you hear all the laughter and flirtatious chatter coming from the normal people downstairs?

[ursus arctos]

This has made me realise that I don't recall ever seeing a double-decked coach in England.

The Long Island Railroad has them, as do Chicago's commuter lines. They are also used in commuter service in France, Germany, Switzerland and Italy (among others).

[Nocturnal Submission]

This has made me realise that I don't recall ever seeing a double-decked coach in England.

I've certainly never seen one which is why I thought the GO ones were so good when I rode in one.

[ad hoc]

It feels like the UK is the only country which doesn't have some double decker carriages. Even Romania has a few.

[Capybara]

This has made me realise that I don't recall ever seeing a double-decked coach in England.

The loading gauge (height and width of tunnels, etc) largely prohibits this. The Southern Region of BR introduced a pair of experimental units for commuter use in the 1940s but the design required for them to fit through tunnels and bridges meant that passengers couldn't get in and out quickly so they were withdrawn in the early 1970s.

[Capybara]

Here we are:

[Nocturnal Submission]

Wow. Thanks for that.

Possibly the ugliest thing I've ever seen.

[DCI Harry Batt]

Yeah, no double-decker trains in Britain, no double-decker buses elsewhere (more or less). Interesting eh?

[WOM]

Can you hear all the laughter and flirtatious chatter coming from the normal people downstairs?

Um...yes. And when the peels of laughter get too loud, all the QZ types shoot each other disapproving looks. What's worse, the 'middle' layer is actually noisier most days than the lower level. Savages, the lot of them.