people who talk in the quiet carriage should be swiftly put or death - NOT lighthearted

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Right?

There is no excuse.

Basic exchanges of information - fine.

Chat about that Thai restaurant you went to three years ago - swift, merciless death.

Need a quick verdict to see if I can a save the last hour of my journey.

Dirty, I tried huffing but it doesn't work as a killing method.

One of the parties is not too loud, I will spare him if he does not demur over the death of his colleague. I may try dispatching her by stuffing abandoned newspapers into her gob.

The train is now stuck behind a trouble freight train

Yay, more people who agree with me commonsense!

You're quite right, OP. I once told off some people who were loudly discussing a man who had headphones on, and saying he shouldn't have them on in the quiet carriage. I could hear nothing from his headphones but their wittering was loud and annoying.

The Trappist-Monk-silent-as-the-grave carriage would be bloody marvellous.

I'm with the OP.

I think that people should not be booked into the quiet carriage unless they specifically request it. There are seven other coaches FGS.

OP you are 100% NBU. I can only assume the posters saying YABU are not regular commuters. Anyone who catches trains regularly understands the sanctity of the STFU carriage.

Funny tho, in a perverse way I quite enjoy it when a chatter strays into the quiet carriage from time to time, the death ray stares and masses of passive aggressive gesticulating and tutting from other passengers (but very rarely any direct commands because, y'know, that would make a noise) are quite entertaining.

I would love Virgin to introduce the STFU carriage. It could have a picture on the door of Branson with tape over his mouth to scare the children.

I would gladly pay a surcharge for a STFU carriage.

Especially in half term.

Actually people should STFU on trains, full stop. Loud braying voices in any carriage should be evicted onto the tracks..

I cannot bear people (and I hate to say it, but it's usually women) droning on and on and fucking on while on the train. Sadly, my train doesn't have a quiet carriage. If it did, I would use it.

Shut the fuck up! None of us are interested in what Tina did last night or your shopping trip or your work colleagues or your mum's weekend plans. I did once silence a particularly loud mobile phone talker by saying 'thanks for sharing that with us all' after he detailed his breakup with his girlfriend to his mate.

Sometimes the trains are that sodding full that people spill into quiet carriages, Ive noticed it's the infrequent users or day trippers who are the loudest, I swear some people think of a quiet carriage as a present place for them to be so they can natter inane shit..

Well it has all gone out the window now as the train is stuck. We were meant to be in by now. The driver came down for a chat (bad sign) and told us that, in a nutshell, we are going to be stuck for hours, Virgin may deign to lay on taxis in a couple of hours.

Grumpy, tired, hungry pregnant person here. Everyone is talking, understandably. Foghorn is roaring, and was crying for a while. Joy.

Usually the train is silent, once there's a bit of a problem it becomes rather continental and people start talking to you. I don't mind a bit of noise then but on a normal day, particularly in the morning, silence usually reigns and quite right as most of the carriage are asleep/hungover or in the process of waking up. All trains should be renamed from peak services to STFU services and anyone wanting to chatter away should be banished to the off peak service or forcibly evicted from the STFU train by marauding gangs of former librarians to wait for the later train. What astonishes me is that you get the odd one having a half hour conversation about crap for the entire journey- if some sod rang me from their train when I was trying to get ready for work or do the school run and then wittered on for ages I would hang up. There must be some tolerant people out there!

There are many things I think deserve swift and deadly retribution. This is now on it. Thank you for contributing to Alexa's Ever Increasing List of Reasons We Need the Death Penalty. 6 More and we've solved the housing crisis!

Whenever I book tickets online, I can specify if I want the quiet coach or not. I always do want it and never hesitate to tell people to STFU ( politely of course) if they are not quiet. YANBU

OP i am with you completely. Bloody morons on their phones ruin my commute almost daily (no quiet carriage option sadly) but any noise in the quiet coaches when I've been on other journeys has driven me mad! I think they should be called silent coaches so there is no dispute!

As a former librarian can I please apply to be a marauder on a STFU train. I can shhh in many and exciting ways, have horn-rimmed glasses and am willing to grow my hair so I can wear it in a bun.

I missed the rest of the thread, sod my silent carriage idea, STFU is way better! High five fellow haters!!! (Wish you were on my train!)

Yes. Silent carriage!

Do noise cancelling really work (I.e block out the annoying twats that plonk themselves next to you on their phone for the hour long journey?!)

I think YANBU re endless, non-quiet, inane chatter in the quiet carriage.

A bit of talking obviously OK.

In all of the trains I use (frequently - mostly virgin or virgin east coast) you can change your reservation when booking and it tells you which is the quiet coach.

A STFU carriage would be great though.

OP, is one of the adults on the train crying because it is delayed? Did I read that right?

Zola Yes, I regularly use noise-cancelling earphones at work when I need to concentrate and it's particularly noisy. I can't remember what make mine are but they are great. I'll have a look tomorrow.

Zola noise cancelling headphones help block out white noise. That gentle hum thats ever present. DS1 is autistic and we invested in a bose quiet comfort pair for him (several now as his dyspraxia means things don't often last).

The bose ones have an on switch so even if you're not plugged into a device the white noise is silenced. You can often try them in bigger currys stores.

They help with blocking out other noise but aren't ear defenders. Those are under £10 and can be very effective.