3 years after being lifted off the rails at Ryde, a former Island Line train has been given a new lease of life after being converted into a unique £175-a-night Air BnB. 483009 ran between Ryde and Shanklin for some 24 years between 1992 and 2016, having spent 50 years on the London Underground before that. In her final years on the Island, 009 was used as a depot shunter until the carriages were lifted off the tracks and disposed of in March 2021 (pictured left). Now, Coach 129 has been spruced up and transformed into an adult-only glamping destination at Apple Mount Retreat in Suffolk – thought to be the only place in the world where you can sleep in a former tube train. It follows a complete restoration into London Transport colours by Cranmore Traincare. The 17m long, 2.3m wide carriage boasts 1 bedroom with a double bed, 1 bathroom with a walk-in shower, as well as a galley-style kitchen and a living area. It even has underfloor heating. 
The appropriately named accommodation, ‘Mind The Gap’, can be found on Air BnB here. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXKshVnnmTU
FORMER ISLAND LINE TRAIN IS NOW A LUXURY AIR BNB IN SUFFOLK
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£175 a night!!! Greeeeeeeeed!
Some curtains or blinds would be nice.
It would have been preferable for it to be running on a heritage line somewhere, giving enjoyment to thousands, rather than being an overpriced b&b for people with more money than sense.
Likely make a better Chicken coop.
No view, near a busy road, and overlooked by the owners house which has barking dogs.
No hot tub, so way too much for the ‘novelty’ only value imo.
I won’t be investing, so I am out.
Of course you are out. You hate anything and everything to do with trains.
And everything/everyone else apparently.
What a bunch of moaning Malcolms you lot are, they’ve created a unique holiday home out of something that was going to be scrapped, I wonder…what have you done? Personally, I think this is much better than buying a much needed house to use as a Holiday Home / AirBNB, don’t you? Well done and good luck to them!
I would have loved to have had the opportunity to purchase one of these and turn it into a home. While buying one (financially) wasn’t the issue, gaining planning was. Many councils I contacted said they would not authorise planning as a permanent home—holiday home for 11 months a year but not permanent residency.
What a shame the council don’t think outside the box, they could make lovely little homes.
As davis says in his comment,restored and on a heritage line,not a massively overpriced “glamping” let
There would be far more hotels around if we, via our Government weren’t paying for them all to be filled with the never ending supply of flotsam.
Imagine the ‘cry’ if such were ‘housed’ in old railway rolling stock.
See the problems with our society and much such as lack of housing, rise in crime, cutbacks, and daily stabbings, shootings, s ex crimes along with overcrowded doc’s hospitals, and roads, all are not just ‘coincidence’ in their timing.