I am very familiar with this ticketing system, and if you don’t have a specific seat reserved, you’ll be very lucky to find a seat unless you’re getting on at the beginning of the train’s journey.
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tal@lemmy.today 2 days ago
I’m not familiar with the ticketing system, but I think that it’d be reasonable for the ticket to simply be used to ensure that there is a seat somewhere, but not a specific seat.
If you go to a restaurant and reserve a table, the table doesn’t need to be a specific one…just means that the restaurant will make sure that one is open.
davidagain@lemmy.world 1 day ago
br3d@lemmy.world 2 days ago
This ticket is odd by UK standards, and the arrangement you describe isn’t the norm. These seat reservation tickets normally specify a particular seat
Dasnap@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Every east-midlands train I’ve been on has had to cancel specific seat reservations when I got on anyway. I think they just constantly overbook or something.
Jrockwar@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Great western railway operates like this, offering you a “mystery seat” regardless of whether they’ve sold 120% of the seats in the train.