Etiquette when sharing a double train seat with a manspreader - help!

[HighburyLass]

On a packed train so I can’t move.
I can’t pull the middle arm rest down between us as he’s leaning against it. He’s sitting over the half way line between seats. And his legs are spread right over my side.
I don’t want to try to move over into “my” space in case he thinks I like having my body up against his. I moved further away and he spread further into my half. I’m right at the edge of my seat. He’s now snoring.
any ideas?

BTW this is lighthearted(ish). I might feel less like this if I was on a very long journey but it’s only a little over an hour.

Whats the etiquette in this situation?!

I love this. A flight attendant did that for me once when my seat was in the middle of a stag party (pissed up dickheads). Stretched out nicely in business class with a Prosecco!

I take it you don’t commute to London or other big city then. The cost of a normal ticket is bad enough. One of my sons pays over £65 a day return for a 25 min train trip, he is thankful on the rare occasions that he gets a seat at all let alone two. There are lots of trains where you can’t reserve seats.

I think there is a difference between manspreaders and unavoidable seat overlap. If it’s someone who is clearly manspreading and don’t go in for any of the passive aggressive stuff suggested by other posters I just ask if they can move over bit. I’m polite and sometimes it works.

Id never confront someone as there are some strange people about and I don’t want to be trapped next to one.

Not a train but a plane. I had to sit in the hated middle seat and man in aisle seat starts unmistakably rubbing his hand against my thigh. I jabbed my left elbow hard into his chest and shouted "Get your hand off my leg you bloody pervert!" He shot to his feet and I imediately moved into his seat, denying him the space. I also rang for the flight attendant and reported the actions. She found him a seat elsewhere with me shouting after him that he was a filthy pervert. Everyone was looking at him. Every time I got up to go to the loo I called him a filthy pervert as I walked past. I told the people he was now sitting with to watch themselves but he was by two men. The purser came and asked me if I wished to make a complaint but i said no as I was worried I would miss my connection. I reckon he learned his lesson and would never risk it again unleaa he got another mouthy female. I do so enjoy a bit of revenge.

When I was 21 (a very, very long time ago) I moved to London and would often have issues with men on the tube. I mentioned it to a much older (ha!) woman in my department who said she dealt with men groping her backside when standing on the tube by reaching round, picking up the hand and waving it in the air, saying loudly 'does this belong to anyone, cos I just found it on my arse!'. She said the offender usually scuttled as close to the door as possible and got off at the next stop.