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.

  • br3d@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    15 hours 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

    • Jrockwar@feddit.ukEnglish
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      12 hours 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.

    • Dasnap@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      15 hours 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.

      • perviouslyiner@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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        14 hours ago

        It’s not possible to prevent overbooking - anyone with an open ticket could get on this train, and the train company wouldn’t even know they were coming.