I have already booked a trip from London Euston to Aberdeen, Scotland for this autumn. The new rolling stock took over this past weekend. As an Amtrak LD Fan, I am “stoked” for the trip. Authentic Scottish haggis shall be consumed.
Given that the OEM for both is CAF, I suppose one could conclude from this that the problem with the delay in delivery in the US is not CAF. It is some combination of US and Amtrak?So, it is official...the Caledonian got its sleepers operating before Amtrak did ;-)
Here is a trip report I stumbled upon on YouTube documenting the new sleepers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3v0l38vF28
I’m traveling late November, London to Aberdeen. It will be dark the entire trip. The windows and the view are of no concern to me. Getting some local food and local spirits leading to a restful sleep are my main concerns.I much prefer the design of Amtrak rooms, you can’t sit in your room and look out at the window with these designs.
Obviously they are brand new, which is nice, but the design looks just as sterile as the new Amtrak designs to me.
Don’t get me wrong, I still want to travel on this train, but I’m not sitting here thinking “oh man this is what Amtrak needs!”
Most European sleepers are designed with beds perpendicular to the windows like that versus the way Amtrak has theirs parallel to the window.I much prefer the design of Amtrak rooms, you can’t sit in your room and look out at the window with these designs.
Obviously they are brand new, which is nice, but the design looks just as sterile as the new Amtrak designs to me.
Don’t get me wrong, I still want to travel on this train, but I’m not sitting here thinking “oh man this is what Amtrak needs!”
Seat61 dot com is a phenomenal website! I use it in Thailand, Malaysia, China... It is detailed and it is covering every train I know.Here is a trip report I stumbled upon on YouTube documenting the new sleepers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3v0l38vF28
I much prefer the design of Amtrak rooms, you can’t sit in your room and look out at the window with these designs.
Obviously they are brand new, which is nice, but the design looks just as sterile as the new Amtrak designs to me.
Don’t get me wrong, I still want to travel on this train, but I’m not sitting here thinking “oh man this is what Amtrak needs!”
I've used the Crescent (Washinton to Greenville/Atlanta) and the Silver Meteor (Washington to Savannah) as pure overnight service.The US at present does not have any LD train that is a pure overnight service as its entire run, except perhaps if 65/66/67 is considered to be just a Boston - Washington DC train. And that currently does not even have a Sleeper.
In principle trains like the LSL and CL could be such trains, but they will need to be sped up by several hours and rescheduled into more appropriate slots.
I liked the coziness of the old lounge cars with the leather couches and the tables with freestanding chairs that you could move around. It felt like a real lounge that could be anywhere, not just on a train. These new ones look more utilitarian. The old ones lent themselves to socializing really well, don't know if these new ones will.
This design seems to have a significantly higher total simultaneous capacity in the lounge car.That's what I was trying to say but everyone seemed to focus on my comment about the windows in the sleeper. The entire design seems less cozy than the previous version, or their direct competitor the Great Western's overnight train.
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