A friend and I are trying to book a train from Portsmouth/Southampton to Bristol (First Great Western trains) with our bikes in a couple of weeks time.
We're told by First Great Western there are 2 bike spaces per train, but when we try to book, two of the potential trains have only 1 available space (the other on each of these has already been booked) and for all the other train options we're being told we can't book the bike spaces (getting contradicting explanations that this is because both spaces are already booked or they simply can't reserve them!)
Does anyone have any experience of taking bikes on trains? I'm just wondering whether it is worth taking a chance that we'll be able to get the bikes on one of these trains or not? Problem is if we can't we'll be stranded, so I was really hoping to have it all booked properly!
Any advice gratefully received, thanks.
We're told by First Great Western there are 2 bike spaces per train, but when we try to book, two of the potential trains have only 1 available space (the other on each of these has already been booked) and for all the other train options we're being told we can't book the bike spaces (getting contradicting explanations that this is because both spaces are already booked or they simply can't reserve them!)
Does anyone have any experience of taking bikes on trains? I'm just wondering whether it is worth taking a chance that we'll be able to get the bikes on one of these trains or not? Problem is if we can't we'll be stranded, so I was really hoping to have it all booked properly!
Any advice gratefully received, thanks.