ValleyLines142
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Hi folks,
A thought has just crossed my mind, and I feel I should probably seek advice on here first instead of just conquering it on the day I travel.
Basically, my friend and I are travelling to Liverpool via Stafford in a couple of weeks time. I'm getting on the train at Cardiff and my friend is getting on the train at Bristol.
When I added each seperate journey, it wouldn't allow my friend to sit next to me in any seat so instead I just booked both of our tickets from Cardiff as it was only about £2 more to do so and it meant that the seat selector tool allowed us to be sat together. I've just realised, however, that these are Advance tickets and I know the T&Cs of Advance tickets mean that you must only start and end your journey from the two stations listed. The tickets in question are both E-tickets but when she shows the gateline assistant at Temple Meads, (s)he's clearly going to say something when it says from Cardiff. I know it's wrong if you go further on a ticket but as she's actually getting on later, and considering I have actually paid more to ensure we are sat together dur to an error totally at the fault of XC, I don't see why she should be penalised.
Any advice would be welcome! We're travelling on 19th March.
Thank you
Edit - can I point out that I did not realise this until this morning when I was making travel arrangements to get to the station. I booked the tickets almost a month ago and didn't even realise this issue.
A thought has just crossed my mind, and I feel I should probably seek advice on here first instead of just conquering it on the day I travel.
Basically, my friend and I are travelling to Liverpool via Stafford in a couple of weeks time. I'm getting on the train at Cardiff and my friend is getting on the train at Bristol.
When I added each seperate journey, it wouldn't allow my friend to sit next to me in any seat so instead I just booked both of our tickets from Cardiff as it was only about £2 more to do so and it meant that the seat selector tool allowed us to be sat together. I've just realised, however, that these are Advance tickets and I know the T&Cs of Advance tickets mean that you must only start and end your journey from the two stations listed. The tickets in question are both E-tickets but when she shows the gateline assistant at Temple Meads, (s)he's clearly going to say something when it says from Cardiff. I know it's wrong if you go further on a ticket but as she's actually getting on later, and considering I have actually paid more to ensure we are sat together dur to an error totally at the fault of XC, I don't see why she should be penalised.
Any advice would be welcome! We're travelling on 19th March.
Thank you
Edit - can I point out that I did not realise this until this morning when I was making travel arrangements to get to the station. I booked the tickets almost a month ago and didn't even realise this issue.
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