The Carriage. The Heist, at full scale.
You're on a platform. The departure board flickers. A tannoy apologises for something.
You board, take your seats, and the countryside starts moving past the windows. On the seat opposite: a rucksack somebody forgot. Everything you need to empty her bank account is inside it.
Today, you're the bad guys.
Your team are The Breach Collective, and Viper runs the crew.
Paula got off the train and left her bag behind. Inside: a padlocked rucksack, a purse full of clues, a cryptex, a diary and a laptop. Everything an attacker needs, all because she left it on a seat.
Crack the padlock, open the cryptex, get into the laptop, find the way into her bank and hit transfer before the next stop. The conductor is coming down the carriage. The trolley's on its way. Nobody is looking at you, because nobody looks at anyone on a train.
It's the same story as our Heist escape room, built as a real carriage with sound, scenery and a cast.
Today she's your boss
This is the briefing your team watches before boarding. Viper runs the crew, and her rules are simple:
“Break in. Extract the cash. Get out. No brute forcing, no random guessing. Everything you need is in the bag.”
Platform. Carriage. Conductor. Trolley.
A full carriage with real seats and a platform to board from.
A live departure board. Windows with moving scenery. Tannoy announcements and the sound of a train that's going somewhere. A food trolley that turns up at exactly the wrong moment. And a conductor, who is also your facilitator, checking tickets and asking awkward questions.
Operated, in-world, by Margaux Rail. Yes, there's a website. No, we won't tell you what the delay is about.
Boarding. The job. The stop.
Every session ends with a facilitated debrief, run by the conductor once the doors open.
Boarding
Platform, board, tannoy. The conductor gets everyone seated, Viper's briefing plays and the train pulls out. The rucksack is just there.
The job
Purse, padlock, cryptex, diary, laptop. Follow the trail through Paula's life until the way into her bank account is one browser tab away. The conductor is watching. The trolley is coming.
The stop
Doors open. What did you get, and how quickly? Which one habit made it all possible? And what's in your bag right now?
A train is where good habits go to die
Everyone has left a laptop on a seat to get a coffee, taken a work call in the quiet coach, or fallen asleep with a phone face up on the table.
A train feels like nowhere, so nothing you do there feels like it counts. The Carriage puts your people on the other side of that. For thirty minutes they're the attacker, working through a stranger's bag with the enthusiasm of people who've never been allowed to before.
They walk off the carriage looking at their own bag differently.
The Carriage has run at a global car manufacturer's HQ.
The spec
Paula, her company and the contents of the rucksack can be rewritten around your organisation: your branding on the lanyard, your systems on the laptop, your sector's most expensive secret in the diary.
- Format
- Life-sized carriage and platform
- Length
- 30 minutes a session
- Players
- Up to 30 a session, in teams of 5 to 6
- Devices
- A real laptop, not a prop
- Debrief
- Facilitated in character by the conductor
- Day
- Repeated sessions across a day
- Where
- Built at your venue, conference or HQ
- Story
- The Heist escape room, at full scale
Attacker mindset training you can board
The attacker's view
Telling people to protect their devices produces nodding. Letting them spend half an hour ransacking someone else's changes how they hold their own bag on the way home. The attacker's view is the one that makes the defender's habits make sense.
What really gets stolen
Not the laptop. The laptop is the container. What gets stolen is the password worked out from a diary, the bank login one tab away, and the quiz post that gave away her first pet and the street she grew up on. The story is built from the things in your people's bags right now.
What it should show
How quickly a team goes from "we shouldn't" to "give me the laptop". Which piece of information unlocks the rest, and how ordinary it was. And, in the debrief, whether people connect Paula's rucksack to their own.
The Carriage, answered.
What is The Carriage?
A life-sized train carriage installation from our SPACE_ range. Your team boards from a platform, the scenery moves, the tannoy plays, and a rucksack full of someone's life is waiting on a seat. They play the attacker. It's our Heist escape room built at full scale.
Is Margaux Rail a real train company?
No. It's the fictional operator that runs the carriage, complete with its own website. The name belongs to the world of the installation.
What behaviours does it address?
Devices and documents in public. Passwords built from things you've posted or written down. Social media privacy. Reporting a lost device fast rather than quietly.
Is the laptop real?
Yes. Getting into a real laptop from clues in the rucksack is the point; a prop teaches nothing. Nothing on it connects to real accounts.
How long is a session and how many play?
Thirty minutes, with up to thirty people a session in teams of five or six, repeated across a day with a facilitated debrief after each. The conductor facilitates in character.
Who is it for?
Anyone who carries a work device outside the office, which is everyone. It works particularly well for organisations with a lot of travel, hybrid working or client-site staff.
How is it different from The Heist escape room?
Same story, different scale. The Heist runs in a meeting room from a case. The Carriage is a set you board, with moving scenery, sound, a trolley and a conductor.
Can we customise it?
Yes. The passenger, her company and the contents of the rucksack can be rewritten around your organisation, your systems and your sector. The carriage stays; the passenger changes.
What does the venue need?
Space for the carriage and a platform, power, and access to bring the set in. We scope it with you as part of the booking.
Where has it run?
At the HQ of a global car manufacturer.
Book The Carriage.
Tell us where and when. We'll bring the train.