Taking a bike onto Greater Anglia intercity service with reservation covering part of the journey

[miklcct]

I have obtained an Advance ticket from Stratford to Norwich on a weekend. I have reserved a bike space while buying the ticket.

I have got 3 coupons:
- the Stratford - Norwich ticket itself with a seat reservation from Colchester - Norwich
- the bike reservation coupon from Colchester - Norwich
- the coupon to be tagged onto the bike corresponding to the above.

The train starts at Liverpool Street and will call at Stratford before reaching Colchester. Will it be a problem if I bring my bike onboard at Stratford?

 

[Class800]

Could you state the trains used? Is there s change of train at Colchester?

 

[miklcct]

My ticket is:

Advance Single
From Stratford (London)
To Norwich
valid on 09-JLY-22

On specified trains & connections only

15:20 Greater Anglia
No specific seat reserved
From Colcester
To Norwich

Therefore I can use a suitable connection from Stratford to take the 15:20 train from Colcester. However, it happens that the 15:20 train from Colcester also calls at Stratford so I think I may take it from there. My concern is that the bike space on GA is mandatory reservation so if I will have any trouble taking my bike on it if my reservation only covers part of the journey.

 

[miklcct]

I have made a call to the desginated hotline yesterday and the system was dead, so I called again today.

The operator was initially confused about my ticket details and finally told me that I would need a cycle reservation for each leg of my journey, and asked what time I would travel from Stratford despite I told her the train is 15:20 from Colchester. And finally she made a cycle reservation from Stratford to Colchester for me.