Can someone clarify, what the score is on these bike reservations that people have. Do they mean anything, will I be left on the platform if everyone else has one, but I don't.
They are merely comfort blankets for those who live outside the Southern network. Southern don't 'do' bike reservations, and how many bikes get on a particular train is down to the whim of the guard/conductor. Mostly these are excellent chaps provided the revenue enforcement officers and BTP are not on board (won't affect us they don't seem to work weekends) when they are likely to turn all jobsworthian.
The fragrant Claudine claims these fake bike reservations have given her some sense of moral authority, and thus actual power, but I suspect she just used her considerable charm, and undoubted eloquence to get the good folk of Southern to see it her way or, perhaps, threatened to set Teef on the train staff.....
So in short they mean not a thing, and if you get left on the platform it will not be for the want of said scrap of card.
