Pyjamas on a sleeper train?

We travelled across from Toronto to Vancouver on The Canadian, and it was magical. I have so many wonderful memories of the journey, but can't for the life of me remember what I wore in bed! We had our own little toilet and basin cubicle anyway, but had to share a shower just down the corridor. I do remember splashing the clothes I'd taken to wear once and having to scamper back wrapped in a towel - and naturally that was the only time I bumped into another traveller (male, of course). My favourite memory is of rocking gently in my bunk, hearing the ghostly train whistles across the prairie - it brought me out in goosepimples.

A 2 night journey. From Chiangmai Mia in Thailand to Penang in Malaysia with my OH and two young teenage gd. We shared a carriage with loads of other people and slept on bunk beds that converted to couches and tables in the day. Also had a a curtain and light. We all slept in pjs, changing behind our curtains and the girls said it was the best bit of the holiday especially the early morning when the came into my bottom bunk and we lay there at 5.30 in the morning watching the sun rise over the rice fields. OH just slept on!

I'm with you MawBroon.

Going somewhere on a sleeper train, but with private cabin has always been a fantasy of mine. Sigh.

Hi all. Some big misunderstanding here about the Gender Recognition Act & proposed amendments. It hasn't been necessary for some years now to have surgery or hormone treatments to be legally the opposite sex. You have to live in role for 2 years & intend to stay that sex for ever. You have to get a certificate from a panel. It costs £140 but most people don't pay. About 5000 people have done this I believe.

This is set to change. All you will need to do is fill in a form. Self ID. Its estimated 600,000 will do this. Biological sex will be a thing of the past, it's how you feel on the inside that will count. Gender NOT sex. So all women's sex-based rights will disappear. A man can claim he feels that he is a woman and get on All Women Shortlists, claim prizes meant for women, use women's private spaces like public loos, changing rooms etc. And Yes, share sleepers on trains. While being a physically unaltered man. So you could book a sleeper on Caledonian trains as a female sole traveller and find the other berth occupied by a man with a beard and intact genitalia who 'identifies' as a woman. Happy with that? I'm not. It's a pervert's charter.

Oh dear, MawBroon! You're not the first lady to spurn me.
The trouble with emails is you don't get the body language, (excuse the term), and twinkle in the eyes.
As you might know from other posts, I'm in my nineties so I could not wish you any harm.
What I had in mind, however, would be for me to lull you to sleep reading railway almanacs, just like Michael Portillo.!
You could even lay back and think of him if you liked.
I wouldn't mind in the least,
You'd probably be snoring your head off before the train reached France, anyway.

Good night, Good Health and Sweet dreams

My dear rufus the thing is I just might get the “twinkle in the eye”, or worse still, there might not be one
You would be spared my dreadful snoring however and I would have no fears about unwelcome attentions from you as you are clearly a gentleman (?) but I am perhaps the product of my conservative Scottish upbringing. So let’s get separate compartments/cabins or whatever they are called and keep the illusions

GrabriellaG - arriving in St Petersburg was magical but the loo on the train was unbelievably awful!

I'm with MawBroon as well and Amma54 is absolutely spot on with the "perverts' charter" comment. I don't care what people do in their private lives and they can identify as a cabbage for all I care but I don't want to share a room with anyone who still possesses balls and penis and nor do I want them sharing changing facilities with me or my DDs or especially my DGD.
As things stand, if they've lived as a woman, embarked on hormones and/or surgical treatment and have a doctor's letter then fair enough, I'm happy to share but if they've just put on a dress and said, "I identify as a woman" then no! For the simple reason that we have no idea if they're genuine or not. It's called "Safeguarding"

Nodding Gan Gan; As I'm clearly a gentleman, as approved although spurned by that canny Scot MawBroon, and also as a computer Nerd, I think I should warn you to be suspicious of any letters purporting to be from doctors
They are too easily generated as fakes using a computer.
The only way to resolve your doubts is to insist on a frisk search as seen on airport security TV progs.
That could be called real Safeguarding.
Good Luck

We took the Blue Train from Cape Town to Pretoria a couple of years ago - I wore a nightie (don't usually wear anything except knickers) just in case we needed to leave the cabin

Agreement with MawBroon here as well. And some surprise that the OP did not anticipate this aspect of sleeping on trains to crop up.
Not easy to understand why those who self-identify as female should be expected to have priority over the comfort of others. And the context here is self-identification, not those who have had gender-reassignment surgery.