Special seats for Bags

[Graham]

Yes that sort of thing is completely unacceptable, yet it happens a lot.
Many Northern people in particular on the Enterprise seem to have a notion that they've a God-given right to take up seats with luggage because they got on first, and that it's the 'Belfast-Dublin' train and why are we stopping at all these stations? Then they proceed, young women in particular, to make a fuss about having to get up and you inconveniencing them and 'forcing' a poor frail young lady to have to lug bags up into the rack.
Feck them.

Also the amount of times Northern people on the 8.00 Dundalk/8.20 Drogheda service sprawl across two airline seats fast asleep with a coat over their heads as if they're not going to be interrupted for the next two hours on a busy morning service is extraordinary. Whereas I'd generally chicken out from waking them (assuming I could get another seat), others are more 'forceful' in their actions - rightly shaking them and shouting loudly 'could I sit here please'. Then they get all grumpy and in a huff and dump themselves down underneath the curtain

I'd share the opinions posted above about belongings on seats - leave them there as long as the service is not busy. It is a hassle putting stuff up on the rack, and you can quite easily leave something behind up there. Also items have a habit of falling out of bags and coat pockets and getting lost up on racks.
If the train is relatively full and you're pulling into a station, then is the time to remove stuff before people get on. I can never get over how people just sit there, straining their necks looking out the window to avoid having to move stuff for people wandering about the aisles. The ignorance and lack of consideration for others is astounding at times. Seasoned commuters are always conscious of these matters, but others tend to live in their own little world.