Any guesses for what chaos awaits us on this train?

Edit to add: This is not the ticket, it was printed alongside the actual ticket, after asking for seating preferences.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    796·
    5 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.

    • br3d@lemmy.worldEnglish
      25·
      5 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.worldEnglish
        12·
        5 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.ukEnglish
        7·
        5 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.

    • davidagain@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      4 days ago

      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.