Virgin trains - first class, Super fast Scotland-London

[kipixt]

High speed rail Now please!

[rachaelmatt]

Thats called 125mph!

[nswalwell82]

I agree, going by train us just as quick and less hassle, you got the wait at Glasgow, hour on the plane, then an hour on stansted express into London!! 4 and half hours relaxed on train leaving phone etc switched on, straight into London city centre. Can't beat it!!!

[EinkOLED]

4:35 Glasgow central to London Euston? Impressive.

Although a flight from Glasgow prestwick to stansted only took 1 hour, with a nice view of the lake district, blackpool coast and manchester as we tonned by the english coast at 500mph

[WrongRoadRailways]

Yes, but with planes you have to wait for ages at the check-in etc. and with trains you turn up and go.

[sammy3514424]

ABSOLUTLY NOT THANKYOU VERY MUCH! I am able to work for a living so manage to pay my own way its very fulfilling actually, may want to try it some day?

[cumguzzlar]

You work? Pay your own way? Really???

Perhaps you could explain one of your earlier quotes then......

"I do agree old chap, theres nothing better than looking down your nose at the peasants on the platform scrambling to get down the back end before we pull away! It makes it an all so much better experience when you havnt paid a penny aswell, and your sipping your complementary tea! Ahhhh good times".

[sammy3514424]

Ahhhhh they were good times actually. Theres nothing i enjoy more than travelling in high class on the railway, no ones worse off for that really are they? Good old Dick wont be that out of pocket!

[cumguzzlar]

Thanks, that clears up any confusion.....yeah i travel with my dick hanging out of my pocket too, it makes me feel so free and natural, i often get a carriage to myself too.

[spackwit]

Yeah I go into the train and whip out the old tallywhacker and invite the nearest person to feast on it. Ohh forgot to mention I star in the Bang Train bit like the Bang Bus but on rails. Obviously. sammy 3514424 don't like my tone have to agree our Tony is a total cunt he steals diesel fiddles his exies and lets his dog shit in next doors garden what a cock eh?

[sammy3514424]

Thats absolutly fine dont worry about it! Didnt even take me a second inform you. Its all about care in the community!

[cumguzzlar]

Cheers, your the best. Are you on the dole too?

[spackwit]

The dole is boss. Can't understand why more people don't go on it.

[cumguzzlar]

Too right spack, the dole rules, it's ace, munney for doing fuck all. I reckon we deserve a rise though soon, i'm having a bad run on the scratchers lately, If i buy more i'm bound to win, that's the advice of my fat mong brother anyway.

[sammy3514424]

Well im glad that helped towards such a good cause! However i still fell you need to work on that tone of yours its absolutly atrocious!

[cumguzzlar]

Ere, poor spackwit is handycapt, not his fault. He looks like scotty from highway to heaven.

[sammy3514424]

Great... Not that i care for your tone much either!!!

[cumguzzlar]

Oh that's nice isn't it? Sorry i'm not up to scratch for you....dissin me coz i'm a travelling gentleman, nice one, thanks.

[spackwit]

Yeah I too waz dissed up it's cuz I iz a black spakka innit.

[spackwit]

Me and cumguzzlar can't possibly spend to much time in the job centre. Why? Because of the scum which go there. People who smell of BO, alcohol, and piss! If you spend any longer in there than you have to. You might end up catching a dose of single parent dole nits or a serious case of council house bum germs. Cumguzzlar and I have no need to work when there is a thriving community of tax paying mugs who will do it for us. I hope this resolves any further confusion.

[legomovies6]

i would of thought diffrent to him taking what isnt his obviously you dont

[sammy3514424]

hmmmm..... im not sure i care for your tone!

[spackwit]

Hey that's what Sir Edward Downes said when I auditioned for the BBC phil. He rekoned I was tone deaf what a ruddy cheek and that's swearing. He said 'spack piss off you are tone deaf' 'Hey fuck you mo fo you iz picking on me coz I iz black innit' I replied. Anyroad I had the last laugh I'm at the Cleethorpes WMC this week singing nesun doormouse. Cash in hand mind don't want the bennyfits bizzies sticking their unwelcome oars in my business. Come along and I might croon just for you.

[sammy3514424]

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii­iiiiiiiiiiiight...............­.......... Ok well 1st things first i dnt understand half you say and second things second do you always ramble on like this its not a nice trate. Actually if im being honest its God awful and gastly!

[spackwit]

Like OMG I have never been so insulted in my life. I'm going into the dole office to claim more incapacity benifit munney coz of the stress you have caused me. I have sent one of my mates down to the shop to pinch me some more lager, ciggies and scratch cards to help calm me down.

[cumguzzlar]

I'll back you up spack me fuckin homey.....remember the last stressie claim? Lush resultt eh? An extra 150 sheets a week for a bit of lynx in the eyes.

You still doing the adrian zmed lookalikey kissogram gig on friday? Remember to peel back and think of ed balls.

Got me sen a new PA now, business is booming. Just back from the freebie holiday too, spent a fuckin bomb, glad it's not my own munney ho ho ho.

[spackwit]

You OK to DJ at my bothday bash?

[cumguzzlar]

Who? Me? Can do, might have to go in disguise though, i think the bennyfit bizzies may be onto me....some fat nonce must have graaaaased me up. Forgot the bloody crutches when i got back from the airport the other day.

[MrAnnonumous]

luckily when i was on a 9 hour train journey to PLYMOUTH WE WENT IN A CARRIAGE WITH NO AIR CONDITIONING SO WE WHERE IN THAT FOR 3 HOURS THEN THERE WAS ONLY FIRST CLASS AND WE GOT IT NO EXTRA FEE FOR 6 HOURS LUXURY

[cumguzzlar]

Quite right too, i always travel first class, keeps one away from the working class riff raff types. I don't pay anyway, so makes it even better, been fiddling the dole for years and get freebie tickets from the mug taxpayers ho ho ho.

[spackwit]

I travel first class on the Zimbabwae railways my favorite train is the 'City of Bobbi Mugabae' there is a good song about it too. Anyway first class over there is the rooftop nearest to the engine. The first class premium enables one to have a piss and the pissy spray flies back onto the wogs in the econonmy class at the rear.

[cumguzzlar]

Eh? Where the fuck is the city of bobbi mugabae? I thought harare was the main town there? I reckon your a lying charletan bastard.

[cumgobblar]

Sorry I meant the 'city of harare' Willie Nelson and Ed Balls are doing a cover of this song especially for niggaz in need

[sammy3514424]

I do agree old chap, theres nothing better than looking down your nose at the peasants on the platform scrambling to get down the back end before we pull away! It makes it an all so much better experience when you havnt paid a penny aswell, and your sipping your complementary tea! Ahhhh good times.

[robrm456]

Don't you just hate when the common folk from down the back come in looking for seat, then running out saying 'It's first class down there'. Yes and it's first class to keep you out! Honestly you do get some rough folk coming in now and again. But their ejection from the better end provides fanastic entertainment.

Everything is so much nicer when you don't pay. Wouldn't you agree?

[legomovies6]

and you call working class riff raff its people like you who should get nothing from the state why dont you get out and get a job

[cumguzzlar]

Eh? I think i deserve a slice of the bennyfits thank you....i had a job once (lasted 2 weeks before i got sacked for nicking cigs), never again though, the thought of getting up for 9 makes me sick.

What sort of bellcap would work when you can watch jezza kyle, booze and pinch from asda's for a living? Before you slag off "people like me" may i be so bold as to suggest you try sponging off the dole, it's great!

[spackwit]

I'm with legovermovies6 that the working class are indeed riff raff and deserve fuck all from the state. I unfortunatly can't work this is because off a war wound. Whilst on the way to enlist for the second gulf war at the army careers office. I slipped on a dog turd hidden in a bannana skin and I hit my head on the careers office door. I contacted the claims lawyer in the jezza kyle show adverts as recommended by cumguzzlar and as a result 50 large compo. Selecta.

[cumguzzlar]

Not a bad result that one eh spack? This is of course one of spackwit's larger claims, naturally he uses 5 or 6 false names to claim more dole (but who doesn't) so for him the money is rolling in.

Anyway, i'm off on another train ride next week, off round the rockies courtesy of the taxpayer again, thank you. This will be my 4th foreign holiday this year, hopefully just have time to sign on before my lift to the airport. Probably put in for a new incapacity bennyfit when i get back.

[legomovies6]

i prefer to work for a living thank you very much and no wonder you got sacked theiving as spackwit has commented he has a disablity therefor these people deserve these benifits you dont unless of course you have a disabilty apart from the condition know to most as being light fingered

[cumguzzlar]

Eh? How come i don't deserve anything?

I paid into the system for a couple of weeks, just getting something back now when i'm in need. I still need my holidays, buckie and drugs you know. How do you expect me to cope without?

I might get a job again sometime in a few years, too busy enjoying myself at the moment though.

As for the thieving, it was a one off, don't know what happened, i'm normally really careful, still, getting pinched once in 25 years isn't too bad a result is it?

[legomovies6]

with the national retirment age being 65 i hightly doubt you will get another job you've made your intentions quite clear from your comments and as i have said why you dont deserve anything has been confirmed quite clearly by your self in your last comment to me you only paid into the system for a couple of weeks and this allows you to sit back and take money off people who have worked for years get down to that place in you local town called the job centre

[cumguzzlar]

Yes, your probably right.....with the help of your advice i won't bother looking then. Cheers for your help.

I'm looking forward to retiring i can tell you, i can finally put my feet up and relax.

[spackwit]

I'm jelous that your going to the rockies wish I was going. Makes me think of the canadian pacific. That is my favourite carryoke song too. Off to belt it out at the pub later I hope that fucking churchill bulldog is not there mind! I'm off to the durl office on Monday to claim more benyfits of the nash coz like legomovie6 quite correctly stated that I deserve my bennyfits. Im borrowing cumguzzlars walking stick to ham it up for more lowance munney. Chin chin muppets.

[legomovies6]

so is there a reson you cannot work or are you just plain lazy?

[spackwit]

I'm suffering from a serious war wound.

[legomovies6]

no my comment was to cumguzzlar about the disabilty and i havent spent anytime in the job centre i run a business

[cumguzzlar]

There are a number of reasons i cannot work.

1. I can't be arsed.

2. The munney is too good on the dole.

3. I like to stay in bed till 2pm.

4. I can't read or write.

So, in conclusion, for anyone out there considering life on bennyfits....go for it, there's lot's of cash out there, lot's of various claims, spackwits your man if you need help, he knows more fiddles and scams than me now, he was a very good student of mine.

[spackwit]

Kind words indeed from my Guru. A little freebie for all you potential spongers out there. When you go for your interview with the job centre staff. Dress like this. A baseball cap with BOY on it, a right said fred string vest (yellow if poss)and a pair of light grey jog bottoms on. Be sure to dribble some water on the crotch area so the staff will assume that you have just pissed your sen and then they will want you out of their office like pronto yeah.

[275149]

how much was it?

[Victorialine67]

why were u delayed for 2 hours,

line incident?

[787bb]

compared to to edinburgh the pendolinos are quiet from glasgow .

[margaretdb]

I traveled First class on Virgin Trains last year.

What a treat and a hell of a lot cheaper than buying a plane ticket at the last minute

[firefightn32]

Here in the U.S first class is a sleeping car. What I see here is what we call business class. Same thing, different name. And no, we dont want or have seat belts.

[FlightCrewWannaBe]

Should have seatbelts on trains.

[stationendproduction]

nah, seatbelts on trains would be a waste of money, modern seats are designed to keep people in them, and they did there job in the Lambrigg crash

[FlightCrewWannaBe]

They woundnt cost that much really, and if all of the companies did it there would really be no loss. And are you saying if you were faceing foward at that speed and it crashes head on, you would stay in your seat? Lol

[stationendproduction]

yep you would stay in the seat, after looking at reading evidence from the Pendolino crash, the seats kept passengers upright and in their seats lol

[demise3601]

then you rather go by car -.-

[truckduck065]

I'l be going in one of them next month. Did you get a free newspaper and headphones as advertised on their website? What do you get for the money week day? cheers

[thes4uce]

You get free food/snacks and free booze.... they come around after every stop so can get quite messy !! If travelling weekends or bank holidays then you get bugger all. I think you have to buy headphones so bring your own. Same for papers.

[truckduck065]

Thanks for the info. Do you get food and drink after EVERY stop? if so, brilliant.

Re free news paper and headphones, see Virgin Trains website, then click "Traveling with us" at the top... wonder if you have to ask for them? It states clearly free.

Thanks for the info again, for me booze no no; tea only!

[ay76]

Free beer sounds good!!I did 1st class on NEEC & it was great.I'll have to try Virgin Some time.Nice video cheers.

[bluemonster1968]

friday morning is the best time to travel, from manchester to euston,,, crackin breakie service,, and there northerners to,, so they look after you...as long as your nice to them..they deserve more credit and are poorly paid considering what they have to put up with...so dig deep and tip them, they will bend over backwards 4 you....i love these trains and people... wot a great lot

[supershrek99]

I can assure you that for the industry area the Customer service assistants work in ie. catering, they are very well payed! And the Train Managers can take just under 40k a year with their commission! Virgin Trains are the best TOC at this moment in time imho!

[demise3601]

buffet staff get crap pay

[video47]

I do First Class on these quite a lot, I find that Pendolino's offer a much better First Class experience then Voyagers. I was in First Class on a Voyager once and we pulled up next to a GNER Class 91, they have wine glasses on the table and plates and cutlery, we just have a plastic box with a roll and pretzels and a kitkat! May youtube a few First Class video's myself.

[EPPower]

You get a food box which you collect from the onboard shop at Weekends. Although if Virgin has learned any lessons from XC, they'll offer food at weekends too. I usually travel Leeds to Birmingham NS, then change to a pendo for the last leg to Coventry - so I'm on the pendo for ten mins. The first time I was asked if I wanted a cup of tea on a pendo - I thought it would be like the tea on voyager...I wasn't expecting a complete tea set with facial flannels!

[RapidAssistant]

It's good meal service in Virgin 1st class...I've used it a couple of times from Euston to Glasgow and was well impressed.

[bradduncan]

thanks!

[bradduncan]

could u tell me which days are quiet like this please?

[thes4uce]

This was the 1510 from Glasgow Central on a Tuesday. BTW I was also on this train this weekend on Sunday evening and it was only a little busier. I have still never got the cheapest fare they offer though. Also, on a weekend you do not get complimentary food and drink (except coffee/tea!!).

[bradduncan]

Is first class on virgin trains normally empty like this?

[tenbeforeavant]

no because it is popular on certain days