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Sleeping on a train is great - the
rhythmic
noise of the train lulls you to sleep and
there is something romantic and
beautiful
about travelling through the night in a
sleeper compartment on a train (I shall
leave it to others to comment on the
merits of sex on a
train)...
City
centres tend to be
short of hotel space, or to have very
expensive hotels, but plenty of train
stations (London, for example has at
least
nine large mainline train
stations)...
Train lines tend to
be
under-utilised at night...
So,
this
idea is for a train-station based hotel,
which incorporates nightly round trips.
You
check in between 8 pm and 10 pm and
go
to bed in your train compartment. The
train leaves at 10 pm and travels through
the night until 2 am when it reaches a
convenient siding. It then goes back to
where you started, arriving at 6 am. You
get your hotel 'room' for the night in the
city centre, and a lovely train ride.
(?) cheesy picture
http://www.travelin...per/compartment.jpg
[hippo, Oct 04 2004]
http://www.seat61.com/
[pocmloc, Jun 19 2011]
cheesy picture link is dead...
http://cdn.c.photos...ian-compartment.jpg
did you mean this one? [pashute, Jul 13 2015]
Baked sample (in bus form)
https://greentortoise.com/
Bus by day, 'sleeper car' by night; saving time & $$$ since 1974! [Sgt Teacup, Jan 27 2020]
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Rock-a-bye hippo, in the sleeper compartment top.
When the train rolls, you'll sleep 'til the next whistle stop. |
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nice idea could work for nights out on the town better than a Taxi or the night bus not as they really exist and Hippo if this train is in the UK what about our brilliant and punctual rail service? couldn't get to work because of leaves in the siding, or a lost driver |
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Too bad we don't have enough trains in the Western US to
make this work here. |
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One can visit many different places on very cheap, if they are one train's night journey apart. |
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Spend the nights in the train, sleeping, while travelling. Visit the place during day. .. and so forth... |
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Could one buy a ticket, go to sleep in London, wake
up next morning, wash, dress, step out onto the
platform, and find oneself in a randomly selected
other city? That'd be fun. |
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Yeah, I love it too.. Imagine 10 days journey, with absolutely no hotel stay, which are large chunk of expense in any journey. |
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The Krauts pioneered it in 1940; lots of people slept on the Underground every night for months, so there's Prior Art there. |
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//(I shall leave it to others to comment on the merits of sex
on a train)...// |
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Very dangerous. Be sure to duck when you go into those
tunnels. Or have her duck depending on the posit... never
mind. |
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What would I want with her duck? |
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You've led quite a sheltered life in some ways, haven't you [MB] ? |
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Yes, much more sensible to do it inside the train rather than on it. |
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Leaving aside the obvious opportunities offered by person-carrying balloons (guaranteed privacy being one of the more obvious ones), presumably prior to 1907* there was a predecessor to the Mile High Club utilizing trains rather than aircraft. Given the numerous discomforts and inconveniences of a typical steam locomotive footplate, it seems unlikely that any but the most adventurous (or foolhardy ) would even attempt such activities ; but the possibilities offered by even quite basic rolling stock suggest that the Eight Feet High Club probably inducted its first members not long after the Stockton & Darlington first took paying passengers, and given human nature very likely sometime before ... |
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*altho the Wright brothers achieved sustained powered flight in 1903, it was some years before aircraft were capable of climbing to 5000' AMSL** and higher. |
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**Note that the applicable unit of measurement is actually the Nautical mile which is 6080'. |
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While generating the above annotation, and thanks to a bizarre synergy of a typo and the outcome of over-enthusiastic spellcheck/autocomplete we were presented with the disturbing phrase "Mule High Club" , but that's a very dark place where pretty much no-one would want to go ... |
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//the disturbing phrase "Mule High Club" , but that's a very dark place// - as opposed to the "Mild Hugh Club" |
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There's an ass joke in there somewhere... |
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Yes, but it's a bit of an old chestnut ... |
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There are cheaper ways to provide exactly the same sound and vibration. |
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Enterprising* individuals seem to be transforming all sorts of vehicles into sleeping accommodations. Why not trains? |
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Sample template uses a bus (see link). After enjoying a communally-prepared supper at a well-stocked kitchen bus hidden cleverly along the route, staff fold seats and tables in interesting ways to create beds. This is known as 'The Miracle'. Vacationers wake up refreshed, already at their next destination, having saved time by traveling through the night. |
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*Generally because they are excluded by enterprise, and society in general. See: 'The Grapes of Wrath'. |
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// There are cheaper ways to provide exactly the same sound and vibration. // |
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Yes, but thanks to a very carefully balanced combination of bribery, threats, blackmail, extreme violence, industrial alcohol and a High Court injunction, the Intercalary has stopped doing it. |
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