Travelling on GWR and crosscoutry

[HORNIMANS]

My wife and I will be travelling around the South west on rover tickets for 14 days. I cant find anything on the above Toc's above about the rules about seat reservations.
1] Do I have to get a reservation/allocation on every train I get.
2]Do I have I have to book in advance or when we travel.
If anyone has anymore advice please post back.
I do have allocation tickets both ways from where I live.

 

[LA50041]

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My wife and I will be travelling around the South west on rover tickets for 14 days. I cant find anything on the above Toc's above about the rules about seat reservations.
1] Do I have to get a reservation/allocation on every train I get.
2]Do I have I have to book in advance or when we travel.
If anyone has anymore advice please post back.
I do have allocation tickets both ways from where I live.

With crosscountry you can use the 10 min reservation which worked well for me yesterday.
with GWR only London trains effectively need a reservation, however nobody has checked mine on any trains. These can be obtained on Twitter if you use that.

hope that helps

 

[ForTheLoveOf]

My wife and I will be travelling around the South west on rover tickets for 14 days. I cant find anything on the above Toc's above about the rules about seat reservations.
1] Do I have to get a reservation/allocation on every train I get.
2]Do I have I have to book in advance or when we travel.
If anyone has anymore advice please post back.
I do have allocation tickets both ways from where I live.

You are asked to get reservations on all services where they're available, but they're not compulsory on any train in the south-west, despite the mixed messaging.

You can get reservations at ticket offices, through the relevant TOC's customer services (most easily via Twitter in most cases), or for XC through their text-message TMR service.

Just as before the pandemic, if a service is exceptionally busy then you may be unable to travel on it without a reservation (albeit you would be able to claim delay compensation if you were sufficiently delayed as a result). But this is very rare at present. The only difference is that the threshold for "exceptionally busy" is now somewhat lower than it would have been half a year ago.