I’m planning a trip Euston-Manchester-Glasgow-Euston in a day.using Avanti West coast and Transpenine Express, is this practical and reasonable to do? Will i be ok if i get an any permitted route return, or should I book advances so have reservations? if dont have reservations, am i likely to have any problems boarding trains.
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An Off Peak tickets is valid for what you want to do but I would obtain reservations for your preferred trains. You might find Advance tickets are available that are cheaper then the Off Peak Return but you will be committed to those specific trains.
Looking on RTT, the current situation appears to be as follows:
- Avanti : Reservations compulsory on weekdays, optional (but recommended) at weekends
- CrossCountry : Reservations compulsory on all services
- East Midlands : Reservations optional (but recommended)
- Greater Anglia : Reservations optional (but recommended)
- Great Western : Reservations compulsory on all reservable services
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With the exception of LNER that is just in the data because the operators want to have booking engines and TISs issue reservations for any tickets sold, to allow monitoring and management of "social distancing".
The same goes at Euston but after saying "you must have a reservation to travel on Avanti services" they then admit that you actually don't - just that you might be denied travel on your preferred service without a reservation (if "social distancing" capacity is met).
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