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Calling people "standard-class customers" serves only to alienate them if the reality is that they feel treated like second-class or third world passengers.

Railspeak should be terminated 2011

Not because I'd found myself sharing a standard-class train carriage with a much-loved former footballer, but because no one offered him a seat.

On the decline of civility 2009

Calling people "standard-class customers" serves only to alienate them if the reality is that they feel treated like second-class or third world passengers.

Railspeak should be terminated 2011

But still only about 50% of the existing seats are occupied, and as of 2012 the government will have lengthened most of the trains on the route anyway, increasing standard-class seating in each train by 50%.

High Speed, Low Benefit Chris Stokes 2011

She was late for the train and almost missed it; racing up the platform, Laura flung herself into a first-class carriage, then had to scrabble unhappily, clutching her bag, her knuckles grazing the plastic seats as she passed, through two more first-class carriages, a buffet car, and a goods compartment before she reached a standard-class carriage.

A Hopeless Romantic Harriet Evans 2006

She was late for the train and almost missed it; racing up the platform, Laura flung herself into a first-class carriage, then had to scrabble unhappily, clutching her bag, her knuckles grazing the plastic seats as she passed, through two more first-class carriages, a buffet car, and a goods compartment before she reached a standard-class carriage.

A Hopeless Romantic Harriet Evans 2006

She was late for the train and almost missed it; racing up the platform, Laura flung herself into a first-class carriage, then had to scrabble unhappily, clutching her bag, her knuckles grazing the plastic seats as she passed, through two more first-class carriages, a buffet car, and a goods compartment before she reached a standard-class carriage.

A Hopeless Romantic Harriet Evans 2006

SARCC spokesman in Johannesburg Coen van Niekerk did not dispute this but said introducing classless or standard-class trains would have an enormous and unpleasant impact on those who now travelled third-class.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

Outside London, Leeds has the highest number of standard-class passengers forced to stand, with 14% standing on arrival at the city centre in the morning peak and 12.1% standing on departing trains in the afternoon peak.

The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

Yet ordinary BBC staff are complaining bitterly about a new rule, introduced in October last year, which requires them always to book standard-class rail tickets - even if first-class would be cheaper.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011