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Why are there Quiet Zones on trains?!!

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GreatOak · 29/08/2024 06:47

I don't know why they bother! I tend to seek them out to snooze on my long commute to work. But people don't notice they are in them, they simply get on the carriage that stops in front of them, and I've just been in a Quiet Zone carriage empty but for three Revenue Protection Officers talking very loudly. I moved, and one of them having clarified I was moving because I wanted peace, said, "I wouldn't get upset about it" - well, if it wasn't flagged as a Quiet Zone I wouldn't care. So why bother having them?!

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Sethera · 29/08/2024 17:20

MissPeachyKeen · 29/08/2024 09:09

That's very ableist of you

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How is that ableist of the poster? There is no point having a Quiet Carriage on a train that has been cancelled; or having a Quiet Carriage on a train that is so full no one can get through the train to it or find a seat in it, in the miraculous event that they get there.

LadyQuackBeth · 29/08/2024 17:48

HotCrossBunplease · 29/08/2024 07:54

I think that they are less necessary now that people tend to communicate by WhatsApp instant messaging more than phone calls these days, and have email on their phones. They were designed to control the annoying noise of one-sided phone calls.

Except that the people who do have phone conversations now tend to hold the phone out in front of them like some sort of sick bowl - they balance each other out!

BreatheAndFocus · 31/08/2024 14:55

CaptainCallisto · 29/08/2024 16:42

For those reserving tickets, presuming this is online, you can usually choose your carriage and seats and thus choose/avoid the QZ.

Problem is, certainly on the trains in and out of my local town, that the quiet carriage isn't always the same one, and there's nothing on the booking to tell you which carriage it will be. There's an option to specify that you want the quiet carriage, but nothing to specify that you don't. Unless you've ticked that you need first class, they'll just put you wherever there's space, which seems rather frequently to be the quiet carriage.

Ah, that would make it harder then. In my local area, it’s almost always Coach A. I presumed this was to reduce footfall, eg people walking through chatting on their way to the buffet. They also have big signs in the window.

Might be worth an email to your train company and/or asking station staff.

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