One is not amused by these uncomfy seats on the new trains!

HER son takes his own cushion wherever he goes.

And while the Queen isn’t quite as particular as Prince Charles, it seems even she can’t retain her stiff upper-lip over the uncomfy train seats on her journeys to Sandringham.

In fact, she finds the seats in the new series of Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) trains so objectionable that one of the firm’s older models has to be laid on for her when she makes the two-hour trip from London Liverpool Street to King’s Lynn.

Her discomfort will be familiar to thousands of passengers who use the new Class 387 Eurostar. Many have compared the seats to sitting on an ironing board. And while the Queen – who at 92 can be forgiven for wanting a little comfort – always travels to Norfolk first class, GTR yesterday admitted that even those seats are narrower and harder than their predecessors.

The Queen’s dissatisfaction was revealed by GTR’s passenger services director Stuart Cheshire at a meeting in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, last week with angry commuters.

He told them: ‘The Queen doesn’t like the new trains – she prefers the old ones to take her to King’s Lynn.’

Mr Cheshire indicated she prefers the seating layout on the old Class 365 trains to the new 387s, according to The Sun. However, it is believed he was referring to the type of seating, as the layout is the same.

Rail users have complained bitterly about standard seats in the 387s, which are built by Bombardier Transportation and used by firms including Great Western Railway and c2c. They claim the smaller seats are designed to cram more people in and are extremely uncomfortable.

One traveller wrote online: ‘Just wondering why these seats, aka “Ironing boards”, are popping up on new trains around London and gradually spreading across the UK.’ Another uploaded a photo of a first class 387 carriage, adding: ‘ For “first class” these seats and their armrests look a bit narrow.’

Osteopath Robin Lansman warned that harder seats could even be detrimental to commuters’ health, particularly after sitting in office chairs all day. Geoff Martin, of the RMT union, said: ‘They [387s] are what we call a metro fleet, so they are not designed for long journeys but they are running them on long-haul operations.

‘They have been described as like sitting on ironing boards because they have very little padding.’

A GTR spokesman last night blamed the changes on health and safety. ‘The 387s have modern seats that are specially Very Important Passenger: The Queen, above and inset, travels to Sandringham every Christmas designed to help passengers survive in the event of a crash, she said. ‘These seats by their nature are thinner and harder than the seats on the 365s.’

Bombardier Transportation said it was unable to comment. Buckingham Palace said it was ‘not commenting’.

‘Queen doesn’t like new trains’