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Sleeping on a train is great - the
rhythmic
noise of the train lulls you to sleep and
there is something romantic and
beautiful
about travelling through the night in a
sleeper compartment on a train (I shall
leave it to others to comment on the
merits of sex on a
train)...
City
centres tend to be
short of hotel space, or to have very
expensive hotels, but plenty of train
stations (London, for example has at
least
nine large mainline train
stations)...
Train lines tend to
be
under-utilised at night...
So,
this
idea is for a train-station based hotel,
which incorporates nightly round trips.
You
check in between 8 pm and 10 pm and
go
to bed in your train compartment. The
train leaves at 10 pm and travels through
the night until 2 am when it reaches a
convenient siding. It then goes back to
where you started, arriving at 6 am. You
get your hotel 'room' for the night in the
city centre, and a lovely train ride.
cheesy picture
http://www.travelin...per/compartment.jpg
[hippo, Oct 04 2004]
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Rock-a-bye hippo, in the sleeper compartment top.
When the train rolls, you'll sleep 'til the next whistle stop. |
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nice idea could work for nights out on the town better than a Taxi or the night bus not as they really exist and Hippo if this train is in the UK what about our brilliant and punctual rail service? couldn't get to work because of leaves in the siding, or a lost driver |
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Too bad we don't have enough trains in the Western US to
make this work here. |
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