Catching earlier connecting Thameslink train

[800Travel]

Hi, if you have an advance ticket marked ‘Lner & Connectns’ for a journey on Thameslink into London then LNER, can you catch an earlier train than your booked Thameslink (and then connect onto the correct booked LNER) or is this against the ticket terms please? And either way, if you have any evidence that you could link to please that’d be really helpful for me getting my head around it. Thank you

 

[jfollows]

Hi, if you have an advance ticket marked ‘Lner & Connectns’ for a journey on Thameslink into London then LNER, can you catch an earlier train than your booked Thameslink (and then connect onto the correct booked LNER) or is this against the ticket terms please? And either way, if you have any evidence that you could link to please that’d be really helpful for me getting my head around it. Thank you

Yes.
See https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/gtr-advance-easement.273252/, for example: (apologies, the link won’t necessarily work, contents pasted below)

Where a passenger has a through Advance Ticket and reservations for a journey which involves using a Gatwick Express, Great Northern, Southern and / or Thameslink train, as a connection to or from a different operator’s train service.

For example, Advance Tickets routed "AP SLOUGH", “AWC &CONNECTIONS” or "LNER & CONNECTNS".

They can use any Gatwick Express, Great Northern, Southern or Thameslink train to complete their journey even if they have a reservation for a particular Gatwick Express, Great Northern, Southern and / or Thameslink train.

Please note, this doesn't apply where the connection is to or from a different Gatwick Express, Great Northern, Southern and / or Thameslink train.

 

[gray1404]

It would be helpful if this was in the public domain somewhere.

 

[jfollows]

It would be helpful if this was in the public domain somewhere.

It is. Here!

 

[800Travel]

Yes.
See https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/gtr-advance-easement.273252/, for example:

Thank you I seem to have permissions problems accessing that link for some reason though

It would be helpful if this was in the public domain somewhere.

It is. Here!

It’s the kind of thing that it’d be helpful to be shown when booking the tickets tbh - shame the whole knowledgebase isn’t public

 

[jfollows]

Thank you I seem to have permissions problems accessing that link for some reason though

OK for whatever reason but at least I posted the text content as well as the URL ….. apologies, I understand why the link won’t work for everyone, I have amended my earlier post.

 

[800Travel]

OK for whatever reason but at least I posted the text content as well as the URL …..

Yes thank you - it’s really helpful

 

[Haywain]

See https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/gtr-advance-easement.273252/, for example

The link doesn't work.

 

[jfollows]

The link doesn't work.

Works fine for me, I just tried it, but I posted its content in post 2 above anyway!
I wouldn’t have posted the link if it didn’t work for me. Why it doesn’t work for you I don’t know.

EDIT Apologies, I understand why now, I will edit my post, the content is pasted below.

• Where a passenger has a through Advance Ticket and reservations for a journey which involves using a Gatwick Express, Great Northern, Southern and / or Thameslink train, as a connection to or from a different operator’s train service.

For example, Advance Tickets routed "AP SLOUGH", “AWC &CONNECTIONS” or "LNER & CONNECTNS".

They can use any Gatwick Express, Great Northern, Southern or Thameslink train to complete their journey even if they have a reservation for a particular Gatwick Express, Great Northern, Southern and / or Thameslink train.

Please note, this doesn't apply where the connection is to or from a different Gatwick Express, Great Northern, Southern and / or Thameslink train.

***In all cases, as a missed connection could be quite distant from your part of the country, where verified, please clearly endorse the ticket for colleagues ‘down the line’. Eurostar have also agreed to do this.