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Colin Rosenstiel · September 7th 07, 12:02 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(John Salmon) wrote:

If the ticket type is "GNER Advance" (or thereabouts) than you're
only allowed to sit in the reserved seat. GNER are notorious
arseholes on this point.

Not usually true in my experience; it's a myth started by one of
the denigrators of GNER in uk.railway. I travelled from Retford to
London and back today using GNER Advance tickets, sitting in
unreserved coach H each way, wth no difficulty. Of course, they are
entitled to make you occupy your reserved seat, and apparently it
happens occasionally - but never to me.

Also true on FGW. My daughter and her baby were booked on FGW from
Cornwall back to Cambridge in one of their new HST coaches with high
density mainly airline seats. It was impossible to accommodate the baby
without blocking the corridor so the train crew helped her moved to
somewhere more suitable.

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Colin Rosenstiel