Overcrowded trains/empty First Class carriages

black-saturn

What about the person who was sitting in my reserved seat? Is there nothing I can do about that?

juno

You can tell them to move! I do if I'm travelling with someone and we've reserved 2 seats together and all the other 2's are taken.

I also once had someone make me move because I'd reserved the aisle seat but was confused and sat in the window seat, and they'd booked the window seat.

surfcat

black-saturn wrote:

I was on a really crowded train coming back from London with 2 small children once who were wingeing all the way home. In the end I sat in the first class carriage with them. When the conductor asked for an extra £5 I said "when you offer a first class service I'll pay first class prices". She just walked off.

Good for you. Glad to see you showed respect for someone just trying to do their job. I hope you're proud of yourself.

grex9101

surfcat wrote:

Good for you. Glad to see you showed respect for someone just trying to do their job. I hope you're proud of yourself.

agreed, if i was the conductor i'd have chucked you off for refusing to pay the correct fare for the journey.

Bogof_Babe

I do think that the blanket £10 per "offence" for sitting in an empty First Class carriage is a bit excessive, especially if you are only going a couple of stops.

I'd have happily paid an extra £1 per stop to take the weight off my feet, and the luggage off my shoulders.

It would be better still if they got the railways sorted out so that this situation did not arise. For a serious alternative to private motoring, the railways are a national disgrace.

Incidentally, the last couple of times I've booked online via Qjump, the tickets have advised me that "no booked seats are available for your journey" or words to that effect. In other words they know darned well that the service is overcrowded. It's not Qjump's fault.

black-saturn

juno wrote:

You can tell them to move! I do if I'm travelling with someone and we've reserved 2 seats together and all the other 2's are taken.

I also once had someone make me move because I'd reserved the aisle seat but was confused and sat in the window seat, and they'd booked the window seat.

Tried that but they wouldnt.

black-saturn

surfcat wrote:

Good for you. Glad to see you showed respect for someone just trying to do their job. I hope you're proud of yourself.

Yes I am thankyou. I stick up for myself now. The only way to get the message across to the person in charge in situations like this is through the middle man.

executiverocker

black-saturn wrote:

What about the person who was sitting in my reserved seat? Is there nothing I can do about that?

you tell them to move.... you have that seat through a reservation

black-saturn

executiverocker wrote:

you tell them to move.... you have that seat through a reservation

I told them to move, they wouldnt. They just laughed in my face. I cant use physical force so I found other means of getting a seat for me and my young children.

CIS

you tell them to move.... you have that seat through a reservation

I had that once on a train , a woman was sitting in one of my booked seats and refused to move when asked , stating that the conductor had told her to sit there. After a few minutes heated discussion , she decided to move ony when another passenger said he would move her bags for her - she wasn't happy as it basically meant she had to shift as she run out of excuses why she couldn't.