45378
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Given that with rare exceptions it's impossible to get a Pendolino throughout, the ticket booking sites seem to be splitting the journey at Carlisle - ie throwing you off the Pendolino there and condemning you to a Voyager southwards. (You can see my prejudices - both in terms of comfort and the obscenity of travelling all that way as diesel power under perfectly good wires!)
In reality of course you could defer the transfer Pendolino - Voyager as late as Warrington BQ. But will on-board ticket inspection have kittens at you over-riding your first ticket from Carlisle that far south? I realise a reserved seat on the second train may long have disappeared but there you go.
I suspect problems may cut in after Preston because of crew changes there - the Scottish ticket check will have been long before Carlisle.
Rgds
45378
In reality of course you could defer the transfer Pendolino - Voyager as late as Warrington BQ. But will on-board ticket inspection have kittens at you over-riding your first ticket from Carlisle that far south? I realise a reserved seat on the second train may long have disappeared but there you go.
I suspect problems may cut in after Preston because of crew changes there - the Scottish ticket check will have been long before Carlisle.
Rgds
45378