GWR no reservations

Skipness · 20 Oct 2017

As normal I have bought my tickets from train split.com but noted that on my return journey on Dec 9th that there was no reservation made between Par (11.07) and Exeter.
Puzzled by this I then went to GWR's own site and got a similar response "no reservations available" Tried first class and again "no reservations available"
Anybody know why please?

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Y Ddraig Coch · 20 Oct 2017

When I entered your journey details, this is what the GWR website gave me on trying to get a reservation.

""There are no more seats available to reserve for your chosen ticket on the chosen service. You can buy this ticket without reservations or you can change your service or ticket selection and try again.""

So it would seem either first is fully booked, or they don't know what type of train it will be on that day so cant allow reservations until they do.

AlterEgo · 20 Oct 2017

Y Ddraig Coch said:
When I entered your journey details, this is what the GWR website gave me on trying to get a reservation.

""There are no more seats available to reserve for your chosen ticket on the chosen service. You can buy this ticket without reservations or you can change your service or ticket selection and try again.""

So it would seem either first is fully booked, or they don't know what type of train it will be on that day so cant allow reservations until they do.

It'll definitely be a HST.

Just a thought - are there engineering works? Is the timetable confirmed?

Y Ddraig Coch · 20 Oct 2017

AlterEgo said:
Just a thought - are there engineering works? Is the timetable confirmed?

I think it must be confirmed, they will sell you the tickets, just not a reservation.

M28361M · 20 Oct 2017

According to http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/times_fares/ticket_types/44703.aspx reservations are not open on weekend GWR services beyond 18/19 November at the moment.

Skipness · 20 Oct 2017

AlterEgo said:
It'll definitely be a HST.

Just a thought - are there engineering works? Is the timetable confirmed?

I travel this train on a monthly basis (not always a Saturday though) and yes it is booked as a HST from Penzance to Paddington. Any chance of it being one of the new Hitachis?

AlterEgo · 20 Oct 2017

Skipness said:
I travel this train on a monthly basis (not always a Saturday though) and yes it is booked as a HST from Penzance to Paddington. Any chance of it being one of the new Hitachis?

No chance, they aren't going to run down that way for a long while. Furthest they'll get in December is Taunton.

Definitely a HST, I suspect it's the timetable not being confirmed that's causing the problem.

AlterEgo · 20 Oct 2017

Y Ddraig Coch said:
I think it must be confirmed, they will sell you the tickets, just not a reservation.

Nope, you can sell tickets against an unconfirmed timetable with no reservations (Usually not Advances, but sometimes there are exceptions).

SickyNicky · 22 Oct 2017

Once you have your tickets, you can always get a reservation later, if they become available. Any station can do this, and the ticket issuer should be able to as well. Be aware, though, that on GWR there are some trains that never allow reservations, particularly at the weekend, presumably due to overcrowding worries.

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