If you MUST argue, please keep the noise to a minimum! Watch the moment two women on quiet carriage of train ‘whisper fight’ in hushed tones ‘after passenger told off other people for speaking too loudly’
- Callum Beeley, 29, was travelling from London to Penzance with his sister Cara
- He says he started filming as he ‘felt a bit anxious that something would happen’
This is the moment two women on the quiet carriage of a train fight in hushed tones – after a passenger allegedly told off other people for speaking too loudly.
Callum Beeley was travelling from London Paddington to Penzance with his sister Cara to visit their mother on Tuesday when an argument kicked off about people speaking in the quiet section.
The 29-year-old began recording after a woman allegedly started shouting from the other side of the train carriage and telling other commuters off for speaking too loudly.
The video shows an unidentified woman approaching Cara after reportedly shouting ‘Do you not know what quiet means?’ to another commuter who was speaking to his friend.
Callum says his sister had just defended the man – who is out of shot – by saying ‘Who do you think you are?’ to the unnamed woman.
Callum Beeley was travelling from London Paddington to Penzance with his sister Cara (pictured) to visit their mother on Tuesday when an argument kicked off about them speaking in the quiet section
The video opens with Cara saying: ‘Get out of my face, honestly, get out of my face.’
The woman replies in hushed tones, saying: ‘Don’t try me, girl.’
Cara responds: ‘Don’t you f***ing try me. Get out of my face. I don’t know who you think you are.’
The woman then says: ‘I know who I am, this is a quiet carriage. Babies aside.’
‘So wha?,’ Cara retorts. ‘You don’t pay more for your “quiet carriage”.’
The woman replies abruptly: ‘Shut up. You are not allowed.’
Cara laughs in disbelief and says: ‘Telling me to shut up? Who is this c***?’
The woman begins to walk away but then turns back to see that Callum is recording her, and so storms back towards the pair and attempts to grab the phone out of Callum’s hand, saying: ‘Really?’
Cara then jumps in to defend her brother, saying: ‘Yes, really. I don’t think so.’
The woman covers her face and says: ‘Excuse me, you have no right to record me.’
Cara then replies: ‘Yes you can record in public places.’
Just before the video ends, Callum can be heard agreeing with his sister, saying: ‘Yeah, you can.’
The 29-year-old began recording after a woman allegedly started shouting from the other side of the train carriage and telling other commuters off for speaking too loudly
Speaking today, chef Callum said: ‘I started filming because I felt a bit anxious that something would happen, as I could feel tension in the air.
‘I guess it serves as protection also to have evidence, but luckily it didn’t go that far. I think I mainly felt a bit nervous. I don’t really like confrontation, it is the last thing I’d expect on a train.
‘This lady, I think, took the quiet carriage rules a bit too seriously because I always thought conversation was allowed. It started with the lady shouting out, “Do you not know what quiet means?”
‘The man sitting near us ignored her and kept talking to someone, so she then got out of her seat and told him to stop talking and to move if he wants to talk as she pointed in his face.
‘The man didn’t really say anything back to her, but my sister did which is when the lady then came over to us.
‘She also complained to the train manager, saying she’d been assaulted, but nothing happened. After like half an hour she moved herself to the next carriage.
‘We could hear the man’s conversation but it wasn’t overly loud. There is a difference between the quiet carriage and a library, you can’t have total silence.
‘The speaker announcing the stations is still loud.’
A spokesperson for Great Western Railway said today: ‘We ask customers in quiet carriages to keep the noise down and not make phone calls or play music loudly through their headphones.
‘Of course sometimes passengers can occasionally find themselves in the quiet carriage without noticing the announcements or signs – we find a quiet, polite word generally resolves any problems.
‘There may be occasions when this is not the case, and we would encourage passengers to speak to a member of staff to help resolve the situation.’
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