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My message to Virgin Trains Customer Relations:
Hello,
I was on the [HH:MM] on Thursday, 7 July 2016, from London Euston to Birmingham New Street. I had booked Seat [XX] in Quiet Coach [Y]. Just above my seat on the Quiet Coach sign, someone had written "BNP". Someone else had tried unsuccessfully to scratch it out, but the graffiti, as shown in the attached photo, was still clearly visible.

As a mixed-race British citizen, I found this unsettling. I did not particularly enjoy sitting underneath a blatant piece of unimaginative racist propaganda for the entirety of my journey. Would it be possible for the sign in the coach of that train to be replaced? I presume there is a way of identifying which train was running that route at that time?
Thank you,
[nanila]
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And that's the reported ones. I know at least two of the incidents I'm aware of round here weren't reported, because the victims suspect it was one of their neighbours and are scared to report in case it escalates :(

I'm trying to find out about the procedure for making our church a hate crime reporting centre. It's not much, but it might help a bit.
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On a side note, I hope this doesn't happen again, but these days most train companies (I'm not sure about Virgin, but I think so) have started displaying individual codes for each carriage with a message saying something like 'how am I looking? Tell me if you're not satisfied.' That would give you a unique identifier to refer to.
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