HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
I use the bike rail combination quite a bit and scotrail has been very good; Ive never had a problem with rush hour trains, "excuse me please can I put my bike there please" usually works.
There was one day, on one of the older trains where the rack is the connecting corridor. After I got on another 4 or 5 bikes got on, so it was slightly crowded and one drunk (middle of the day?) came by muttered something about "bl**dy bike" picked up the outside bike (a nice light weight road bike) and threw it to the side. The guard came along a second later gave him a bit of a lecture and moved him on and dealt well with the situation.
Another time I was on the last train from Dunfermline to Edinburgh on a Sunday and me and a student got on, this was the type of train where the luggage cabin had been converted to store bikes vertically. The guard insisted that the student store his bike vertically, the student argued that his hydraulic forks cost a fortune to re-blead if he was to do so. His arguments fell on deaf ears however, the guard put him off at Inverkeithing and when I stood up for him he threatened to throw me off too. Its not as if the train was overcrowded there was only me, him and 2 girls and the emergency exit was clear.
There was one day, on one of the older trains where the rack is the connecting corridor. After I got on another 4 or 5 bikes got on, so it was slightly crowded and one drunk (middle of the day?) came by muttered something about "bl**dy bike" picked up the outside bike (a nice light weight road bike) and threw it to the side. The guard came along a second later gave him a bit of a lecture and moved him on and dealt well with the situation.
Another time I was on the last train from Dunfermline to Edinburgh on a Sunday and me and a student got on, this was the type of train where the luggage cabin had been converted to store bikes vertically. The guard insisted that the student store his bike vertically, the student argued that his hydraulic forks cost a fortune to re-blead if he was to do so. His arguments fell on deaf ears however, the guard put him off at Inverkeithing and when I stood up for him he threatened to throw me off too. Its not as if the train was overcrowded there was only me, him and 2 girls and the emergency exit was clear.