TPE trains don't have a quiet coach, but apparently today I managed to get into the 'slightly noisier than need be coach'. From Stalybridge to Huddersfield it was a large Irish family nattering, which wasn't too bad, although I could have done without the novelty ringtone, but from Leeds to York it was a trio of "ok, yah" female uni students of that sort who are terribly sure of themselves, but also slightly incapable of Real Life (TM). One of them had, like, OMG! left her phone charger behind (I did the same this weekend, and simply turned my phone off to preserve the little charge left), and then another had, like OMG! left her packet of cigarettes behind, leading to a discussion of whether there would be, like, a shop? at their destination.
Still, the funny bit was when the guard announced that the toilet in the middle coach (which I was sitting close to) was out of order, but that there was a toilet towards the rear of the train. Within minutes, a knuckledragging tracksuit wearer came and tried the door. A passenger told him it was broken and locked, but there was another at the rear of the train, whereupon the knuckledragger set off towards the front of the train....