ThePannier
Member
Hi,
Yesterday, with school, I went on a trip down to Leeds to visit the mosque as part of an RE project. Enjoyed the trip itself, but something that happened on the journey back has been playing on my mind.
We all had had seats reserved, all close together, by our teachers. There were 18 of us (including two staff) and from what the team leader told me, we were all meant to be in Coach B.
After all boarding 185116, we found that about 15 people were sitting in our reserved seats. After asking them to move, they said that there were 'no reservations on this train' and that 'they had reserved the same seats on another train that had been cancelled'. None of them wanted to budge.
This left us in an awkward situation, because the train was rather crowded, and we just wound up being dotted all over with about 6 in each coach, the majority standing.
Just a question - something that's annoyed me is, should we still have claimed the seats? - as I think the overall total of the reservations from Leeds to Chester-le-Street came to about £200 plus. At the end of the day, we had reserved the seats for this specific journey, and wasn't really our problem that their original train had been cancelled.
Just to let you know, all of the money for this trip was FUNDED, not paid for by each individual student. So, when you think about it, that's over £200 of public money wasted on seat reservations.
Thanks in advance!
*Also, I'd just like to point out, I'm not representing my school in any way, I'm just personally looking for an answer.
Yesterday, with school, I went on a trip down to Leeds to visit the mosque as part of an RE project. Enjoyed the trip itself, but something that happened on the journey back has been playing on my mind.
We all had had seats reserved, all close together, by our teachers. There were 18 of us (including two staff) and from what the team leader told me, we were all meant to be in Coach B.
After all boarding 185116, we found that about 15 people were sitting in our reserved seats. After asking them to move, they said that there were 'no reservations on this train' and that 'they had reserved the same seats on another train that had been cancelled'. None of them wanted to budge.
This left us in an awkward situation, because the train was rather crowded, and we just wound up being dotted all over with about 6 in each coach, the majority standing.
Just a question - something that's annoyed me is, should we still have claimed the seats? - as I think the overall total of the reservations from Leeds to Chester-le-Street came to about £200 plus. At the end of the day, we had reserved the seats for this specific journey, and wasn't really our problem that their original train had been cancelled.
Just to let you know, all of the money for this trip was FUNDED, not paid for by each individual student. So, when you think about it, that's over £200 of public money wasted on seat reservations.
Thanks in advance!
*Also, I'd just like to point out, I'm not representing my school in any way, I'm just personally looking for an answer.