Validity of routes for onwards connections (NXEC Advance)

[gizmo]

I have an NXEC advance ticket for Leeds - Brighton. When I booked the ticket the NXEC website told me to take the tube across london to Victoria and then get a Southern train from there to Brighton. Being a Londoner who regularly travels both routes (to Leeds and Brighton), I naturally know that it is far easier to just walk across the road to St Pancras and take a Thameslink train from there.

I'm pretty certain that this will be a valid route (as the ticket merely says "plus connections" and it is an obvious, reasonable route), but where can one actually get this kind of information from?

Thanks in advance.

 

[yorkie]

The routeing guide determines the route you can take.

You are only confined to the specific NXEC train; it is impossible to confine you to a specific underground train or national rail train beyond St Pancras as they do not carry reservations.

If an RPI checks your ticket, he/she will have no way of knowing what your 'suggested' service is anyway as there is no coupon for it as it is unreservable.

 

[paul1609]

With the availability of Advance Tickets on Southern their services are actually technically reservable. Tube to Victoria and a fast Southern Service will be shown because it will be much quicker than via Thameslink. No one is likely to question the validity of your ticket that is just not done south of the river.

 

[John @ home]

it is impossible to confine you to a specific underground train or national rail train beyond St Pancras as they do not carry reservations.

their services are actually technically reservable.

But their seats are not!

John