[Archive] Northern (Arriva Rail North)

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RE: Northern (Arriva Rail North)

(11/02/2017 20:45)Dentonian Wrote:  But walk through in which direction. First Class passengers (if there are any) tend to give the hoi polloi funny looks at the best of times. If you walk through to one end, find you've guessed wrong, and walk back past the same people, they are going to turn their nose up twice. i would have thought they's prefer the "old" system as on 185s, where First Class is just at the two extremes, with frosted glass doors normally closed.

The 350 system is actually the 'old system' designed for the London commuter routes where trains frequently run in double or triple formations. The 350/1s were originally going to be more 450s but the order was modified so they had a pantograph and 2+2 seating instead of 3+2 seating. The 185 came a couple of years later.