As the aforementioned title states I am looking for guidance from the experts amongst us with regard ticketing matters. I am booked on a 1st EC advance tomorrow (22nd September) on the 10:00am from London Kings Cross to Aberdeen. My friend will be joining me on this train at Edinburgh Waverley, leaving there at 14:27. Now unbeknown to me until now he has already bought his ticket, an off-peak return from Lockerbie to Aberdeen (£51.60 I believe). He has a 16-25 railcard. Now is there anyway he can upgrade part of the ticket to join me in 1st class from Edinburgh Waverley, i.e travelling from Lockerbie to Edinburgh in Standard then paying extra to join me. My basic ticket knowledge and gut feeling tell me this isn't possible and that his options are, either upgrading the whole ticket to a 1st off peak return between Lockerbie to Aberdeen (not sure how much this would cost) or to get the whole ticket refunded and buy 2 separate tickets, one from Lockerbie to Edinburgh and one from Edinburgh to Aberdeen. My basic knowledge (if correct) tells me that he can refund his off peak return ticket, less a £10 admin fee? Leaving him with £41.60. He can buy an anytime single from Lockerbie to Edinburgh for £10.05 and catch the TPE service arriving at Waverley at 13:39 and then buy the 1st Advance (writing this at 5pm so perhaps only 1 hour to buy it) for £17.15 making a total of £27.20. This will leave him with £14.20 to play with to get tickets back (most likely on Sunday 25th September), unless he is willing to pay a little more. Of course the other option is that upon arrival I move to Standard and join him there, though technically I won't be sitting in my reserved seat, though as has been discussed on here repeatedly this rule has hardly, if ever been enforced, unless the train is packed. What are people's thoughts?
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