First Class on Virgin Trains

[ecs]

Simple question really, but it's not obvious from their website, is the food and drink complimentary on Virgin Trains when travelling First Class? I can't see any prices advertised and I got slightly jealous seeing people tucking into their breakfast this morning as I walked past the first class carriage.

The route I'd be travelling is Northampton to Euston.

[ecs]

Thanks for the info - I only travel with them during the week

[ecs]

I'm basically doing man-maths here. I take London Midland in the evening and their trains out of Euston are all short formed and packed at the moment; a first class ticket would be nice for that journey, so I'm trying to figure out a way of justifying it to myself!

[ecs]

tankplanker said:

they open up first class to second class passengers when it is really full.

I've found it depends on the conductor. The young ones don't give a fk if you're standing with your face jammed in someone's armpit, the old guys seem to declassify first a lot more often. The train I'm taking home at the moment is almost always short formed due to the crash in November (?) last year - apparently the set involved is still being repaired.

Think I'll take a punt on first for a week and see One other benefit is you don't have to sit next to the riffraff or the 'Sorry I'm on the train so it might break up' phone wkers.

[ecs]

There's one every morning

[ecs]

Huh? It's a season ticket, any permitted route. There are three direct services from Northampton every morning which I can use from London Midland and Virgin. The Virgin one happens to be at the time I like to leave.

[ecs]

It's not bad - the seats on the 'Voyager' trains seem nicer than the 'Pendolino' ones. Complimentary cup of tea and bottle of water in the morning and my Friday bacon roll covered No escape from the riff raff and phone wkers though