mangyiscute
Established Member
So I often buy advance tickets from somewhere up north to Reading, travelling via London, and the journey planners allow you at least 45 mins to transfer from say Kings Cross to Paddington.
In actuality, I tend to do it in about 20/25, so I will often just take the first train out of paddington going to Reading, even if it's not the one specified in my booking. However, since most of these trains are reservable, I've heard people say that you aren't meant to do this, and you have to wait for the one on your ticket, which seems unreasonable to me - can I take any train?
I have a ticket for tomorrow on which I have actually been put on an unreservable train for the paddington to reading leg. The ticket therefore doesn't say what train to take from Paddington to Reading, it just says the previous train on it, so I would assume I can take any paddington to Reading train, even a reservable one. Is this correct?
In actuality, I tend to do it in about 20/25, so I will often just take the first train out of paddington going to Reading, even if it's not the one specified in my booking. However, since most of these trains are reservable, I've heard people say that you aren't meant to do this, and you have to wait for the one on your ticket, which seems unreasonable to me - can I take any train?
I have a ticket for tomorrow on which I have actually been put on an unreservable train for the paddington to reading leg. The ticket therefore doesn't say what train to take from Paddington to Reading, it just says the previous train on it, so I would assume I can take any paddington to Reading train, even a reservable one. Is this correct?