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Anyone who commutes by train in the capital will know that it can sometimes be difficult to find a seat.

But rather than stand all the way home, one woman found a rather inventive way of resting her weary feet.

She was spotted on Thursday night on a Thameslink train to Sutton, perched atop a table in the first class compartment, her face obscured by a newspaper.

Fellow passenger Helen Brock snapped a surreptitious picture of the unnamed woman's creative seating arragement.

Ms Brock said: "The young man seated was shocked!

"It was amusing that no-one in the carriage challenged the woman (it was a first class carriage after all).

"I made the judgement that I would have lost the argument so said nothing but took this sneaky photo instead!"

After seeing the picture, a spokesperson for Thameslink said: “First Class compartments are permanently declassified on our busy suburban Sutton services but we wouldn’t expect people to sit on tables, on top of other passengers, anywhere in the train.

"The good news is that we’re bringing in new trains to this route which will have much more space inside.”