Train travel and coronavirus

[zico]

Has anyone travelled on East Coast trains to London recently, and if so, how safe/secure did it feel? Thinking of visiting London from the North but I've been unable to contact East Coast about their current spacing policy on carriages.

[scotview]

My sister is going to London next week and has decided to pay the extra for a single berth sleeper from Inverness.

[flopski2]

My daughter went from Edinburgh to Cambridge recently, as she is moving there at the end of the month. She found the train very quiet and found she could have a carriage to herself on the way back. Might be busier now lockdown restrictions have eased.

[Itsallaguess]

Thinking of visiting London from the North but I've been unable to contact East Coast about their current spacing policy on carriages.

When are you thinking of going?

Is there time to improve your flexibility a bit?

https://www.reddit.tube/video/d3df97f2dbe2c2ea7df73193a6612de98fc85dea

Cheers,

Itsallaguess

[Lootman]

It's funny but although I am happy to pay more to travel in First on planes, I never do that on trains even though the extra cost is not that much. But this might be a time to spring for a first class ticket in order to maintain better distancing.

That said, some flights that are operating right now have premium cabins that are quite full even though Economy is quite empty. The reason being too many people thinking the same way as me.

There are ways to tell how crowded a plane will be from the seat maps, but I don't know if there is an equivalent way to determine how busy a train will be, by class of travel.