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« on: May 30, 2008, 08:33:15 PM » |
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Hi All,
Would like your views,tried to book tickets to London Heathrow airport and return via london paddington with FGW for two adults and two children. Wanted a table seat and were offered coach D 23 24 25 26. Went to NXCC site recomeded by Devon-Metro and booked same trip and have
been given Coach D 25a 26a 29a 30a seats. Does anybody know if these are indeed a table seat and what are my rights ( If I have any) if I board the train and they are not. Many Thanks
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devon_metro
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« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2008, 08:41:41 PM » |
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a means airline.
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basset44
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« Reply #2 on: May 30, 2008, 08:55:30 PM » |
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Thought so, the others were sequential on FGW therefore we are stuffed as a family now. Have to think about traveling on the Mega Bus from now on prices cheaper and seats low enough to see what kids are
doing!!!
Dont suppose I have any come back
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« Reply #3 on: May 30, 2008, 09:30:36 PM » |
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Those seat numbers sound strangely like a table to me.
basset44, what ticket type did you order?
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chris from nailsea
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« Reply #4 on: May 30, 2008, 10:19:45 PM » |
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I agree with Tom - I think you may have four seats round a table after all. Seat numbers are allocated in banks of four (two each side of the gangway) down the carriage: in other words, the missing 27a and 28a in the sequence you have been quoted will be on the opposite side of the carriage from your table. (I think!)  |
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« Reply #5 on: May 30, 2008, 10:31:02 PM » |
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Almost definately, Chris.
It could be that those allocations are the tables in NXEC trains, though...
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basset44
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« Reply #6 on: May 31, 2008, 08:37:01 AM » |
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Hi, I ordered advance table seats this is what I recieved
Journey: 1 Cardiff Central to Heathrow Rail
Ticket type: Advance single
Route: Via Slough
Outward journey: 13 Aug 2008
departs Cardiff Central at 09:25 travel by Train service provider First Great Western to station London Paddington arrives 11:32 ( seats reserved: Coach: D Seats: 25A, 26A, 29A, 30A )
departs London Paddington at 11:55 travel by Train service provider Heathrow Express to station Heathrow Term123 arrives 12:10
Journey: 2 London Paddington to Cardiff Central
Ticket type: Advance Single
Route: First Great Western Traisn Only
Outward journey: 19 Aug 2008
departs London Paddington at 17:45 travel by Train service provider First Great Western to station Cardiff Central arrives 19:50 ( seats reserved: Coach: D Seats: 25A, 26A, 29A, 30A )
Just hope it is in the middle of the carriage
Basset44
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Btline
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« Reply #7 on: May 31, 2008, 12:05:18 PM » |
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Is there an online seating plan/ does anyone know the seating plan?
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« Reply #8 on: May 31, 2008, 04:29:29 PM » |
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I will probably be going out tomorrow in order to get a seating plan in all honesty...
25, 26, 29, 30 all sound very much like they are tables though.
Remember, when you get seats they are entirely unrepresentative of what seat you actually get nowadays as a lot of TOCs just separate each seat and therefore have an A (airline) identification code, rather than F (facing) or B (backwards) to make it more easy to understand. The only problem is, that when they do that, they forget to put TABLE SEAT in the seat identifiers.
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devon_metro
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« Reply #9 on: May 31, 2008, 05:22:29 PM » |
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The fact that there are LD and HD sets also complicates things.
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« Reply #10 on: May 31, 2008, 05:26:27 PM » |
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The diagrams up on my site are indicative of what seat allowances are also within the TSDB and RJIS.
I believe trains booked high density also have a level of reservable seats allocated to low density just in case they are swapped over during the day.
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« Reply #11 on: May 31, 2008, 08:38:23 PM » |
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Yes, apparently the High Density sets have unreservable seats which match to the extra seats in the Low Density sets.
They might even have numbers missing so everything else matches up.
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« Reply #12 on: May 31, 2008, 08:52:54 PM » |
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No, there are definately numbers on all seats in high density sets - you just never see reservations on the last 8 or so seats in each coach.
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« Reply #13 on: May 31, 2008, 09:36:26 PM » |
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No, there are definately numbers on all seats in high density sets - you just never see reservations on the last 8 or so seats in each coach.
That makes sense. And I can confirm 25, 26, 29 and 30 in D are indeed table seats - at least they were in two sets I have been in recently (but, oh help, I forget what density!) |
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« Reply #14 on: May 31, 2008, 09:39:33 PM » |
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I think the lower number seats are tables in both types of set...
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