Recent content by mrkjd

On a GWR return ticket to London recently the train was delayed 12 minutes outbound and 58 min inbound according to a website that records these details. Am I being unduly optimistic in my man-maths that the delay is over an hour total?

But it does say that..... It also specifies that the reservation holders ticket is NOT the reservation but merely evidence that they have the right to take up the reserved place. I agree that an upgrade to either the sitter (if he has to move) or the reservation holder (if his seat isn't...

Once I sit down in an available seat (no reserved notice / display) as a passenger without a reservation then I have legitimately taken it for my journey under the conditions of carriage. I know having a ticket doesn't guarantee me a seat but that is not the same thing as saying I must...

Thanks to everybody who has contributed to this thread - it appears my particular case was fairly straightforward but slight changes in circumstances can quickly muddy the waters! The stand-out issue from this debate in my view is the policy of some train companies enforcing "invisible...

The train was otherwise full, in fact very little standing room and my wife's seat next to mine wasn't subject to any reservation. You are right about the moral element - I would certainly have given up the seat for more immobile people than myself etc - but this character's tone did nothing to...

Hi KB, Your interpretation is a different slant on the general trend of answers here but raises a valid point. Does the Train Guard have to announce that reservations are cancelled for the service to become such? Or is the fact that no reservation labels are present mean the service...

Snail, I had a quick look at the NRCoC to see if it shed any light on reservation validity and couldn't find anything either. Would carrier TOCs have primacy over NRCoC? I cannot envisage how a reservation (Virgin) can be held valid if the seat does not indicate that it is reserved. In the...

Thanks all for clarifying the situation. I think 90% of the carriage thought I was the awkward one - but no matter, a lesson learnt. I didn't hear any announcement cancelling reservations but there was an announcement that the train would be running at reduced speed due to line work. An...

Thanks for the interesting reply Yorkie. No, it was not a case of a previous passenger removing the seat reserved label. There were none anywhere in that carriage (and I think the whole train). We got on at the origin (as did the person I was in dispute with) so the train was completely...

Travelling on a Trans-Pennine service this weekend my wife and I had standard class off-peak tickets. We found seats and sat down. A few minutes later when the train had filled up another passenger "claimed" the seat was theirs as they had a reserved ticket for my seat number. They did indeed...