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« Reply #30 on: March 13, 2010, 20:57:46 »
Quote from: moonrakerz on March 13, 2010, 18:34:13
Quote from: paul7755 on March 12, 2010, 19:07:03
Quote from: moonrakerz on March 12, 2010, 17:52:53
As I have previously mentioned: SWT▸ (South West Trains) tell you "coaches 1,2 & 3  will go here......4, 5 & 6 will go there", having stuck labels all down the train saying "A, B, C............." etc ! 

No longer AFAICT▸ (as far as I can tell), since they binned reservations in December...

Paul

Actually - in the 3 years (or so) that I have been using the Temple Meads to Waterloo service (always on Advance tickets) I have never been given a seat reservation, only a general one for the train. That didn't stop them continuing to label the coaches though - BUT, I did note today that the Waterloo train was "letterless". To be honest, I hadn't noticed on the last couple of trips !

I think that might have been because reservations were only offered on the Waterloo - Exeter main route.  Last years summer timetable only shows the reservation diamond on the first up train, but only in the Exeter column, not the Bristol column, IYSWIM. But I imagine the whole train could have been given letters on its previous departure from Waterloo anyway, and they'd just stay in the door windows until they were next altered...

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