To screech STFU in the quiet coach

[ParadiseCity]

Argh

Dooooooit

YANBU I feel your pain!

My cousin is great at this, she once got a round of applause after telling two women to pipe down. It was after asking them, twice, that she finally snapped and told them that they must respect it was a quiet carriage and to take their conversation somewhere else.

Although screeching might be more stress-relieving

No, don't screech it. Either go over to the loud people and ask them to quieten down, grab hold of the conductor when they next pass and ask them to tell the noisy people to quieten down or tweet the train company .

I'd always go for the first option

Soooooo with you

Yanbu, but could you please get the train companies to stop putting people in the quiet coaches who don't want to be there? I keep on being assigned quiet coach tickets when travelling with small children. It is not fun.

The human voice off the phone is one thing. But no music except through headphones kept personal and NO shoot-em-up games. Turn off the electronic childminder and engage with your DC. Yes Madam on the train this morning I mean you!

Make a nice big sign. You don't want to be raising your voice in the quiet coach.

Sorry Pansies but you must either move or keep them as quiet as you can. It's not your fault that you are in the quiet coach - bit it is not the fault of the passengers who booked it either.

Christ they are annoying. Train manager is AWOL and if I tweet I give away my location to colleagues who think I'm working later than I am...

Everyone else is chattering loudly to each other or on their fucking phones. I'm the only one who knows the rules except mn.

I did some tutting and glaring in a quiet coach once and did manage to hush some people having a loud conversation with (horrors) laughter.

It was only afterwards I realized that we weren't in the quiet coach and I'd demanded silence from some passengers who were perfectly entitled to be talking as they were.

Easy to say Andrewofogg - what do you do if the train's packed and those are your seat reservations?

Pmsl at bibliomania!

And I agree there should be an option to specify reserving seats in the non quiet carriages.

Have you got any paper and a pen?
Write
'S T F U '
and hold it up!!

Can you get some farts brewing? That might clear them out.

put in some earphones and start singing out loud tunelessly as if you are singing along to your music.

Ha ha ha one of the twats got a speeding ticket once on snake pass - she was just 'enjoying the road' how unfair

Farts are a good idea! Sadly don't have any headphones. But there is a lovely village called Waterhouses somewhere, with a place called Yew Tree that is jaw dropping. According to slimey man who is chatting up slimey woman who's been to the head teacher conference today

Oh my gosh YES why is it only the morning rush hour trains when the sanctity of the quiet zone is respected? I do ask people to keep the noise down when I'm feeling brave but it drives me potty.

Pansiesandredrosesandmarigolds You might need to check your preferences when you book your tickets. Mine is set to quiet coach - forward seat. if travelling with DC I'd book a non-quiet coach and a table.

Do you smoke? Light up and see how long before someone complains.

Snake Pass. My fave road - I'm on t'other side of that hill.

you need headphones, i sympathize.
but otherwise, yes take notes

I do occasionally ask people chatting loudly in the quiet carriage to speak more quietly, and to my everlasting surprise it sometimes works.

Last long-distance, ruinously expensive train journey I made, I was in the quiet carriage. Also in the quiet carriage were:

• a party of four adults not even sitting together (there was plenty of room, they were just spread out), having loud conversations across the aisle;
• a couple with a toddler who, when she wasn't shrieking, was running up and down the aisle with one of her parents;
• assorted twenty-somethings travelling alone, either talking on their phones or with tinny music leaking out of their earphones.

I snapped. I was incredibly polite, but I was firm. Amazingly, I got apologies and they all mostly shut up.

(I think when it's that bad it's easier to say something because you are at your wits' end and don't care so much about being awkward or embarrassing.)

Oh. My. God

The number of times I've come across this!! Quiet coach is guaranteed going to have loud music listeners, loud talkers etc. I've given up.

If Virgin or whoever sell you a ticket and it's specifically in the quiet coach section, could they not have someone come round once in a while to check?

The number of times I've travelled and had worse problems - I wish for bad behaviour on trains, or public places (cinemas!) there was an easy reporting system. Anonymous texting to a free number with support staff coming round within five minutes. Drives me up the wall!!