trainophile
Established Member
I know ATW don't issue seat reservations automatically, but I thought I could request same.
I picked up some tickets for August on Monday (been meaning to post this ever since and kept forgetting), and went to the counter (Hereford station) and asked if I could have seat reservations for the journeys. I don't normally bother but given the time of year and the fact that we're off on holiday I thought it would be wise.
The clerk was adamant that they don't do seat reservations. She pointed out that the time-of-train voucher has asterisks where the coach and seat numbers should be, and said that was all I would get. She insisted that it wasn't possible to give me reservations as they don't do them!
On boarding my (ATW) train that same day imagine my surprise (not!) to see seat reservations on the backs of many seats. I'm not saying these would have been Advance purchase tickets, although from conversational experience I'd imagine at least some of them were.
Please could someone give me clarification on this. I'd always thought that any reservable service would issue reservations on request.
I picked up some tickets for August on Monday (been meaning to post this ever since and kept forgetting), and went to the counter (Hereford station) and asked if I could have seat reservations for the journeys. I don't normally bother but given the time of year and the fact that we're off on holiday I thought it would be wise.
The clerk was adamant that they don't do seat reservations. She pointed out that the time-of-train voucher has asterisks where the coach and seat numbers should be, and said that was all I would get. She insisted that it wasn't possible to give me reservations as they don't do them!
On boarding my (ATW) train that same day imagine my surprise (not!) to see seat reservations on the backs of many seats. I'm not saying these would have been Advance purchase tickets, although from conversational experience I'd imagine at least some of them were.
Please could someone give me clarification on this. I'd always thought that any reservable service would issue reservations on request.