To asl if anyone else feels violently sick on Virgin's titling trains?

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I am okay on non tilting trains on the same route, but when the train gets past Preston on a Virgin pendalino or voyager train, bound for Edinburgh, I begin to feel violently sick. I am currently hiding in the loo and wishing the last half hour of the journey away.

So:

Am I right on thinking it is the tilt that is causing this?

Does anyone else suffer this feeling of sickness?

If so do you have any tips for relieving this feeling?

The first time I travelled on one I had sea legs when I got off but I've been ok since.

I prefer to travel backwards too if I have the choice.

I'm OK on the Pedelino as long as it is daylight; as soon as it goes dark I feel sick and dizzy. Not nice

I get sick on them too and have to take motion sickness tablets.
And yes, the toilets and the 'air' on board are grim.
They are fast though.

I'm fine on them, but DD was violently ill last time we travelled on one on the way home to Euston - got all clammy and white as a sheet - we spent most of the journey leaning by the aircon vent (as you can't open a window anywhere on the damn things). It's a real shame as it's so much more relaxing than driving to Liverpool...

I'm OK on the Pedelino as long as it is daylight; as soon as it goes dark I feel sick and dizzy. Not nice

Me too

They make me really sick. I go long convoluted cross country routes instead to avoid them. It's the tilting that does it, like a fairground ride

They make me really sick. I go long convoluted cross country routes instead to avoid them. It's the tilting that does it, like a fairground ride

They make me really sick. I go long convoluted cross country routes instead to avoid them. It's the tilting that does it, like a fairground ride

I'm ok on them as long as I sit facing in an aisle seat, now a window one. I wear travel bands but not sure how effective they are though, I'm still capable of feeling queasy throughout the journey.

Its worth the 4.5 hour train trip to Glasgow so I endure it for this reason.

Worst journey of my life was on a pendolino to Edinburgh. Was sick and dizzy. The heat was unbearable, packed in like sardines, stale air, the tilting, the speed, dark so like being on a roller coaster in a tunnel. DH was green and I was white as a sheet..... never again !!

Virgin Pendelinos make me want to boak.
luckily i only ever have to get one from Birmingham to London which is a reasonably short journey.

I got on one at Manchester to travel to London - the people next to me were eating MacDonalds. Boak. Then over the intercom, upgrades to first class for £15 were announced. I have never moved so quickly in my life.

They're dreadful, especially the front coach. The windows being so small and the lack of fresh air doesn't help.

I love them. I sit facing backwards whilst eating, drinking and working on my laptop. hardcore

The swaying sensation sends me to sleep.

If you think they're bad don't ever get on a Shinkhansen high speed train in Japan

Sit towards the back, and look out of the window. And don't read. All helps with the sickness feeling.

I'm really surprised by all of this. I love travelling Virgin, although I do tend to travel 1st (no boast, just a work thing) so may be its better there as the carriages aren't crowded and you get free booze.

apple Into Edinburgh it would have been a Super Voyager, the Pendalino's shitter, more cramped younger brother.

The Super Voyager is my least favourite train on British Railways by some distance it was on the Birmingham to Edinburgh run that I felt very unwell.

Yes, I take them to London from Liverpool about twice a month and have to sit with my eyes closed, deep breathing the whole 2 hour journey or I puke. I was the same on the Eurostar as well which also tilts a bit.

That's weird, I was on the Virgin train from Glasgow to Penrith the other week and I felt really queasy by the time I got off (it was in the dark) and I was a bit confused as I have never felt sick on a train before. I didn't realise it was "feature" of Virgin trains

I get this too. Was worst during early pregnancy, bleugh!

Why when the trains are new are the loos so badly designed that they stink so much?

loopy I can discount early pregnancy as a cause!

The problem with the loos is that modern trains retain the waste on board, whereas older ones dumped it on the track bed. Not sure what is more grim.

I always feel queasy on the Pendolinos. I have to take travel sickness tablets.

Dh says that sitting in the aisle seats should help, because there is less of the tilting motion at the centre of the carriage than at the edge - if he travels in these trains, he sits in the aisle seats, to get a bit more leg room, and has no problems at all.

Are they the ones that always smell of poo?

They are awful.

Stugeron. Only way I cope.

soon since staggering off the train, I've discovered that what you've described is the nightmare scenario.

Dark plus the journey through the southern up lands where the track zig zags allover the place to let the train climb the hills.