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    Virgin Trains

    We got the Virgin Train from Glasgow to Carlisle yesterday, I think I might have had excessively high expectations as I generally like Virgin products but I have to say it was brutal. Filthy, cramped, unhelpful staff. Major disappointment.


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    Quite unusual in my experience.

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    The virgin trains I've had in the between London and Manchester/ Birmingham have generally been absolutely outstanding.

    Anything that comes this far North seems to be much poorer.

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    We got the Virgin Train from Glasgow to Carlisle yesterday, I think I might have had excessively high expectations as I generally like Virgin products but I have to say it was brutal. Filthy, cramped, unhelpful staff. Major disappointment.
    Never had any problems heading that way to Liverpool over several years with Virgin trains, always been great.

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    The LNER service (which I thought was a rebranded Virgin trains, but not sure if they changed the non-london or north-east side?) is usually pretty good once on. Better than the cross rail alternative.

    They are almost always late though. Which I think applies to all trains.
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    Sounds like we had an unlucky bad experience rather than that being the norm.

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