quiet coach with a toddler

[MrsMuddyPuddles]

My family was assigned seats in the quiet coach. AIBU to use them? Would it be better to have looked for unreserved seats in another coach? (We've just been told off by am older gentleman who "can't focus " and so is "moving elsewhere") obviously we try and keep 2yo DD quiet, use earphones, and monitor to attitude of "new friends ", but were we unreasonable to sit in our assigned seats in the first place?

I was praying that this thread was a thread about a coach who would come and teach my toddler to be quiet.

Last time I booked online there was no way to tell the booking engine that you were travelling with a (ticketless) toddler. Which meant, by the vagaries of chance, that I, DD1 and a woman with twins were allocated the 2 seats by the door where people knock you everytime they walk past. It was a crowded train but the conductor took pity on the five of us plus nappybags, handbags etc and rehomed the other three!

The quiet coach actually only specifies that you cannot use a mobile or other electronic advice. It doesn't state no children.

I regularly get this when booking for a toddler with a family railcard and unfortunately the train company I book with rarely allows me to change to two seats together in another carriage (yes you East Coast!). They have recently given me two seats one in front of the other, as I have an enormous bump my child cannot sit on my knee. Despite e-mailing them repeatedly i got nowhere and had to rely on the goodwill of other passengers to move. I find it strange that stating you have a small child doesn't override seating placements in their systems but hey ho.

I would have asked the guard if there were two seats available elsewhere and moved with their help but wouldn't have wandered up and down with a toddler and all my gubbins for something which was the train company's fault. YANBU

Well, I've booked tickets when dd was small (a) with a family rail card and (b) specifically asking for NOT the quiet coach and still been given them. So you can pay attention all you like but it doesn't help . . .

I can't understand how complicated it can be for the rail company to programme their computer so it never puts family railcard holders into the quiet coach.

You don't have to always opt in to the quiet carriage on great western,niniilegs. I have frequently booked tickets in advance with a family railcard for adults and children and often i am assigned seats in the quiet carriage and when i have questioned this, i am told they are the only seats available! Also gw have a family carriage at holiday times and there we are stuck in quiet and i have walked through family and amongst the families there are also adults with no accompanying kids!!!!Crazy situation!