DelW
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Next month I'm going from Surrey to Liverpool for a long weekend, travelling on first-class advance singles each way, route via London. On Virgin I'm restricted to specified seats on specified trains, as usual for advances. The tickets also state specified trains on SWT, though of course without seat reservations as none exist on those trains.
On the return, on a Monday afternoon, the times give me a very leisurely cross-London transfer, arriving Euston at 14:00 and departing Waterloo at 15:15, so I'm quite likely to arrive at Waterloo in time for the previous train at 14:45. So my question is, would a ticket inspector be likely to give me grief if I arrived in time and caught the earlier train? Neither is in the peak and I would expect the 14:45 to be a bit quieter if anything (they are both Portsmouth stoppers).
(Outbound, the connection is only 54min and as I need to be on the correct Virgin train, I wouldn't want to cut it much finer than that.)
Any advice welcome.
On the return, on a Monday afternoon, the times give me a very leisurely cross-London transfer, arriving Euston at 14:00 and departing Waterloo at 15:15, so I'm quite likely to arrive at Waterloo in time for the previous train at 14:45. So my question is, would a ticket inspector be likely to give me grief if I arrived in time and caught the earlier train? Neither is in the peak and I would expect the 14:45 to be a bit quieter if anything (they are both Portsmouth stoppers).
(Outbound, the connection is only 54min and as I need to be on the correct Virgin train, I wouldn't want to cut it much finer than that.)
Any advice welcome.