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The five trains (25 coaches) cost £100 million.Each new coach will add another 96 seats.The maths of lengthening are very simple. These trains are certainly designed for a service that could be more successful, than the train operator has initially planned. The rule of having a toilet at both ends of the centre coaches will not be broken. The train software, then automatically acknowledges the additional car. One of the advantages of this layout is that although it is a five-car train, it only has four coach types, which must help in both manufacture and maintenance.īut it also helps, if the train service is successful and more capacity needs to be provided.Īn extra coach just needs to have a toilet at one end and when it is slotted into the formation. These ends are connected to the centre car, which doesn’t have its own toilet, but passengers can use the toilets in the next coaches. If you look at the diagram of the train, Coaches B and D appear to be identical with a toilet and a bike store at one end. I don’t think anybody will argue with the toilet provision on Lumo’s trains. If you’re in one of the driver cars, there is an accessible toilet at the blunt end.You don’t have that problem with Lumo’s trains, as there appears to be a toilet at both ends of the three middle coaches, either in your car or the next.I wasn’t sure which way I needed to go, as I couldn’t see a sign pointing me to the toilet, but in the end I struck lucky.I was on an LNER Class 800 train earlier this week and needed to go to the toilet. There are two bike stores in Coaches B and D.As Lumo’s business model allows early booking, if you and your partner want to take the kids to see granny on her birthday, you should be able to get a table, by booking early. Each car has a pair of tables, where four can sit.Judging by the position of the tip-up seats they are for staff and perhaps emergency use, if say a coffee gets spilled on a seat.Coach E – 52 Standard seats – 8 Priority seats – 2 Tip up seats – Accessible toilet – 62 Total seats.Coach D – 84 Standard seats – 12 Priority seats – Bike store – Toilet – 96 Total seats.Coach C – 84 Standard seats – 12 Priority seats – 96 Total seats.Coach B – 84 Standard seats – 12 Priority seats – Bike store – Toilet – 96 Total seats.Coach A – 44 Standard seats – 8 Priority seats – 2 Wheelchair spaces – 2 Tip up seats – Accessible toilet – 56 Total seats.It contains a drawing from Lumo, which shows the layouts of the seats on the train. This article on Economy Class and Beyond is entitled Enter Lumo – The New East Coast Railway Competitor. The Definitive Seating Layout Of Lumo’s Class 803 Trains