What is the significance of tickets described as "Reserved - no seat allocated"? When I booked an advance fare on the SWT service from Bath to London Waterloo and back last month I was given three mandatory reservation tickets along with the travel tickets (Bath -> Waterloo, Waterloo -> Salisbury and Salisbury -> Bath). The booking confirmation read "The passenger is free to sit in any vacant unreserved seat for the class of travel specified on the ticket". How does this differ from not having a reservation at all?
I also gained the false impression that the return journey involved a change at Salisbury, whereas in actual fact it was scheduled as a through train that divided at Salisbury, and the Salisbury-Bath section was considered a separate service purely for internal administrative reasons. This wasn't made clear on SWT's site.
(And to confuse things even further, when I arrived at Salisbury there was some problem and we had to change trains anyway.)
I also gained the false impression that the return journey involved a change at Salisbury, whereas in actual fact it was scheduled as a through train that divided at Salisbury, and the Salisbury-Bath section was considered a separate service purely for internal administrative reasons. This wasn't made clear on SWT's site.
(And to confuse things even further, when I arrived at Salisbury there was some problem and we had to change trains anyway.)