Looking at getting two of us with two heavily loaded tourers from Norwich to Portsmouth, for the ferry to start our 3 month tour. Don't really want to cycle that bit as cycling across densely populated southern England is not really our thing. We might be able to get someone to drive us, but as there are trains I thought we could give that a look. Have never booked bikes on trains before, and to be honest I am losing the will to live!!!
As far as I can ascertain we need bicycle reservations on both Norwich to London, and London to Portsmouth legs. Greater Anglia website gives a ticket price of just over £50 for the two of us (very reasonable), but there appears to be no way of making bicycle reservations! So, went to the GWR website, same price ticket, and they have a bicycle reservation function - except it doesn't - it says reservations are not possible on a leg of the journey, but won't say which one - is it just the cross London bit, or one of the main legs?
Is there a resident expert on such things who can help? As we will getting the ferry the same day we need to be 100% certains our bikes will make it!
As far as I can ascertain we need bicycle reservations on both Norwich to London, and London to Portsmouth legs. Greater Anglia website gives a ticket price of just over £50 for the two of us (very reasonable), but there appears to be no way of making bicycle reservations! So, went to the GWR website, same price ticket, and they have a bicycle reservation function - except it doesn't - it says reservations are not possible on a leg of the journey, but won't say which one - is it just the cross London bit, or one of the main legs?
Is there a resident expert on such things who can help? As we will getting the ferry the same day we need to be 100% certains our bikes will make it!