Quick question on train seating!

bootman

I have just booked for 1 adult and 1 child on the Virgin website to travel by train.

It has allacated me seat number 49a and 53a! Both window

Are these opposite each other by chance? or does somebody else have the pleasure of my son for 3 hours:j

Thanks

pboae

They won't be opposite each other as they are airline style seats not across a table. If you ordered them together and they booked them like that the carriage must be pretty full, but I would be very surprised if you couldn't arrange a swap with one of the people in the aisle seats.

BBM_2

Virgin have two types of train, Pendolino and Voyager. The former is used on West Coast services to and from London Euston, the latter on Cross-Country services via Birmingham. There are seating plans available online at these two links:

Pendolino

Voyager

Note that there is no distinction between facing forward and backwards, all seats in each carriage are uniquely numbered, therefore all seat numbers have a suffix of 'a' for 'airline' even when they're around a table!

You don't say where you're travelling so I can't say for certain which type of train you'll be using. However my guess is that you'll be on a Voyager, because if you look at any of the standard class carriage plans, seats 49 and 53 face each other across a table.

Hope that helps!

bootman

I can't get your seating links to work BBM :rolleyes:

We are going from Banbury to Leeds direct service, if that helps!

Thank you for your time, I am a bit worried if we are split up.

buses7675

Hi All,

Being really picky too, Virgin have gone one 'old' train on loan at the moment too to cover for the Pendolino that was derailed a few months back (which incidentally is largely complete still, shows how strong they are, no windows broken even), but back to the point, on the Mk3 set that is on loan they are mainly bay seats with a table, but some don't have a table.

As far as I know though the older set is only being used on the Euston - Birmingham runs!

Cheers

Steve

buses7675

bootman wrote: »

I can't get your seating links to work BBM :rolleyes:

We are going from Banbury to Leeds direct service, if that helps!

Thank you for your time, I am a bit worried if we are split up.

Banbury to Leeds will be a Cross Country service, so you'll have a Voyager!

That link for the seating plan isn't working for me either, but I've found this on the Virgin Trains site.

http://www.virgintrains.co.uk/travelling_with_us/our_trains/voyager_tour/default.aspx

That has a diagram of a Voyager seats 53 and 49 are window seats, facing each other across a table!

Little bit of trivia, if you get a 5 car set, it'll be a Super Voyager (221), a 4 car set is a 'normal' Voyager (220). Super Voyagers can tilt, normal ones can't!

Cheers

Steve

Agrajag

I recently travelled on the (now run by ARRIVA) Cross Country service (reading to manchester)
And I can confirm that ARRIVA have made NO changes to the seating plans. So the above links still work (even though they reference Virgin trains) if you want to identify where you have been assigned

simplepete

virgin trains did this to my boyfriends once, but we were sat behind each other, each in a seat of 2, on the aisle, with nobody occupying either window seat. the train was practically empty, and they'd shouted at my friend in the past for moving over 1 seat to be by the window,and threatened to fine him saying it wasnt valid, so we were too scared to sit together until the guard came along and we could explain, and he let one of us move.
but it was just such a ridiculous thing.

you seem to have your predicament sorted though by the looks of the replies!
think someone needs to sort out their ticketing system!

Al_Johnstone

Can anyone tell me where I can find a Train Coach Seating Plan for Coaches E and F, electric East Coast Main Line?

littlestar1981

They are nuts. I've been on 7 virgin trains these past 4 days (no I'm not some geek, it was because of work!!) and every booking I requested a forward facing table seat and never got one, even though on at least 3 of the trains there were several table seats (forward and back facing) available.

parkender

13/04/2010

There are the new links to the Virgin Pendolino and Virgin Voyager seating layouts from the Virgin website - can't post a link but virgintrains.co.uk slash assets slash pdf slash global slash seating-plan.pdf is the link!