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Definitely not worth the price now I don't think. The ridiculous name makes me laugh - it's a complete contradiction - it can't be standard AND premier, one or the other! It's not quite as obvious an oxymoron as 'premium economy' though, what utter cobblers! Leisure Select was only just worth...

The Paddington Lounge is excellent. Very handy when there are severe delays back to Bristol, and once the delay reaches an hour you know you're in for a refund on your ticket!

Great shame the Bristol TM one shut down, the staff were very friendly and you could always get a good cup of coffee. It was underused largely because of its poor location - on one of the middle Platforms that trains (generally) with no first class serve. Ought to have been on Platform 13/15 for...

London Victoria doesn't have one either, to add to the misery of Southern's useless First Class service!

I forgot to add, they nick the free papers too. One time they tried to nick the paper I'd brought on the train myself!

At Paddington you always get a stream of out of breath stragglers who have dashed to make the train traipsing through First. You can't settle down until this horde has finally gone through, half of them on their mobiles, a third listening to loud music and the remainder clouting you with their...

I once had an Advance First ticket from Bristol Temple Meads to London ('FGW only'), the route of which required me to take a local stopper from Temple Meads to Parkway, then the HST from Parkway to Bristol. The stopper was 15 minutes late, to the extent that I would miss my Parkway connection...

As All Line Rover says, this route is operated by Class 159s, and the first class seating is extremely comfortable - some of the nicest I've had the pleasure of travelling on. I actually prefer them to the FGW HST seats, and they are much nicer than the XC voyager ones. Definitely worth the extra.

Agree, e-vouchers would be a much better idea. It's a right bore if you don't live near a station with a ticket office- if you go to a small one and start booking complicated journeys, not only does the poor chap at the Ticket Office not used to split tickets/complex advance Firsts take ages to...

Why does engineering work preclude the sale of Advance tickets? Is the timetable still subject to alteration? If so, will advance tickets become available nearer the date? Think I'll book the outward leg now, and wait and see if anything better appears nearer the time. Strange that you can...

Need to travel from Haddenham to London on Friday 22nd July, with the return journey on the 23rd. Off Peak return (railcard) is £16.50. I need to be in London by 13:00 on the 22nd, and leave about 21:30 on the 23rd. Advance single on the 22nd is £3.30, but there are no advance tickets...

Newport Station annoucements are a particular treat. First you get the twaddle in English, which on a Newport to Milford Haven service has a billion stops, followed by repeating the six or so which are request stops, then advising passengers to mind the gap between the train and the platform...

Excellent offer. Booked a few trips from London to York/Harrogate.

I've had these problems too. On journeys south of Bristol down to the Westcountry, the trolley never arrives in First Class, as it takes so long to go through Standard. And even when they finish with Standard, they sometimes just park the trolley in between the two classes and expect you to walk...

Agree. And you get the same blurb at every stop, plus regular stuff from the buffet car. There are certain seats directly under the speakers as well. There have been occasions when the speakers in Coach G (FGW's first class quiet zone) are the loudest on the entire train, and Coach H is actually...

Fair play to XC. After my third complaint about the paucity of their first class service on their HSTs, they have offered me a free first class return journey. A generous gesture.

What about resting your feet on the seat opposite, having first removed your shoes? I regularly do this and don't see it as a problem. Failure to remove one's shoes is bad though, I would concur.

Agree with many of the points already made. Their first class service is dreadful. They have increased the advance fare price on the journey I used to undertake regularly (Bristol to the Westcountry) by about 1/3, and the service is worse than the old Virgin one (which is quite something). The...

I think of the 10 journeys I've made from London to Bristol in the past year, there have been major delays at Reading on 3 of them. Certainly got my money's worth from the first class lounge, but feel sorry for anyone who had to wait on the concourse for the 90 minutes delay. I wonder how many...