Fort William seated sleeper fully booked for summer 2015?

[els]

Hi all, I'm trying to book a space on the seated sleeper from London to Fort William for early July, but using www.sleeper.scot it seems to be fully booked not only during this period but every day I try during summer 2015.

Is it genuinely this popular, or is there some other reason it appears to be fully booked?

 

[scotraildriver]

I noticed this too but the seated coach is almost NEVER full, and definately not this far in advance. Give them a call, I suspect a website issue.

 

[HarleyDavidson]

I thought you can only book seats & tickets 12 weeks in advance?

 

[cf111]

I thought you can only book seats & tickets 12 weeks in advance?

Serco are letting people book Sleeper tickets 12 months in advance.

 

[Bletchleyite]

It currently appears Fort William seats are not available at all, and it is claiming to be "full".

Neil

 

[reb0118]

This may be a technical issue. Seated Fort William [FTW] portion passengers have to transfer at Edinburgh [EDB] on to the Aberdeen [ABD] portion. Sometimes a glitch in the system sees these as two separate trains and because EDB is not an official pick up point the system will not allow you a reservation from there.

A similar thing used to happen with the Transpennine service from EDB & Glasgow [GLC] to Manchester [MAN] (portions joining at Carlisle [CAR])

See if you can book from FTW to EDB & Inverkeithing [INK] to London [EUS] to check if the reservation system is working for those journeys.