Has anyone been on trains lately?

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I may need to take a train from the North East to London. (We’ve not done anything illegal - we came up here before London and the NE went into Tier 4 to look after a very poorly MIL and now we need to get home again.)

Has anyone been on an intercity train recently? How are they from a Covid point of view? Is there any hope of social distancing?

Anyone?

My DD has travelled between London and Edinburgh several times during the pandemic, last time earlier this month.

She says that the trains were fairly empty, and no problem social distancing (no need to sit with anyone).

DD travels by train daily for work. Sometimes she can distance other times not and some idiots are not wearing masks.

They are very empty in my experience, and the vast majority of people wear masks. Should be fine.

I travel by train once or twice a week. It is quieter and no conductor to check tickets.

It depends what time of day. In my experience trains are far emptier than the tube. An intercity train going to London should be pretty quiet.

My ex husband is a driver. They're pretty empty according to him.

Started a thread recently asking the same! I understand you have to have a ticket and seat booked, but wonder how without conductors they stop people just getting on and sitting wherever...

There have been conductors. Also some transport police checking tickets.

DD works different shifts so journey experience varies. She's had pissed up idiots getting too close late on a Friday night without masks. Day time is much better.

DS commutes daily on branch line at peak times (or did, anyway, before schools closed) & says there's lots of room, < 35% seats occupied at most.

No ticket collectors. DD went down to London today.

Mostly empty except commuter routes. People take masks off to eat and drink (which they eeek out as long as possible...)

In my experience trains are pretty empty, tube not so much though! I haven't been in either for around 10 days so not sure if anything has changed since then. I have to go to work once a week and tubes were pretty full in December and Oxford Street so so busy!