Date: 30/08/2015

TRAIN drivers on the Caledonian Sleeper are to pose as passengers to help them perfect a smoother ride. The new operator of the Scotland-London trains hopes customers will sleep better if drivers learn to accelerate and brake more gently. So those at the controls of the locomotives which haul the overnight trains will swap their cabs for berths to experience the service as passengers.

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TRAIN drivers on the Caledonian Sleeper are to pose as passengers to help them perfect a smoother ride.

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