Re: Vinyl seats in Tangara carriage

[Michael Kurkowski <mk@netstra.com.au>]

Ah the luxury of living in Victoria. I'd happily sit backwards to not sit 
on a vinyl seat during summer :-)

In all seriousness though, has anyone here experienced the vinyl pad seats 
in the hitachi's before they went to fabric? What were they like for 
comfort compared to the fabric seats of now? Sometimes i feel as if i'd 
rather stand up when travelling in a Hitachi. It also seems the seats were 
designed for anorexic midgets, when you have a whole seat bay filled with 
people it's extremely squashy.

Also on the topic of what goes into the seats, you can't tell if the fabric 
seats are wet, expecially when some moron spills a whole can of soft drink 
into one. Chewing gum is also more of a problem on fabric than vinyl.

You will probably find that the blue seats cause you to sweat more because 
being a darker colour than that tacky brown they absorb more heat from the 
sunlight.

Regards
Michael.


Railway Rasputin said in message <380F06F9.4D6AE24F@fastlink.com.au>, I 
therefore quote:

>Ashley Wright wrote:
>> 
>> >But the problem with the vinyl is someone who is a little sweatier =
>> >leaves behind disgusting wet patches on the vinyl in Summer...but then 
>> >again it's disgusting enough not being able to see what the hell the =
>> >cloth may have soaked in :-)
>> 
>>    Sweatier is not quite the problem, but more how much the material
>> breathes. I don't sweat all that much but if I sit on plastic or vinyl
>> seating I leave behind sweat marks, not to mention getting a wet
>> behind. But if the seat is leather or fabric then both myself and the
>> seat are dry! One of the reasons why when I lived in Syndey id rather
>> travel by Tangara, although the non city decker sets with the brown
>> seats never gave me any problem, but they were probably more leather
>> then vinyl.
>
>They were all vinyl as far as I know. ( I am talking suburban sets here)
>