Florencepeneice
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Let us know how you get onI'm just about to catch a GW train with a loaded bike. This thread is not exactly reassuring me ...
Let us know how you get onI'm just about to catch a GW train with a loaded bike. This thread is not exactly reassuring me ...
What’s a “grand” on a train? Is it a northern term?
Fair do. I wondered if he was being derogatory and meant ‘grunt’That'll be the spellchecker at work. Guard.
I was lucky, a guard arrived just after I'd removed the 2 buggies from the bike area and he helped me get the bike up and then played buggy Tetris to clear the aisle. It's in here somewhere....Let us know how you get on
In my one experience, the bike reservations are not specific to a coach. You take pot luck on the end of the train you have chosen being occupied already.I have a GWR reservation for later in the month. The ticket does not indicate which of the two bike areas to use. How do I know which coach to go to?
Mine wasn't either at the start but when I complained bitterly that the space should be for bikes only and not used to store bags of rubbish he also gave up.You did right but the guard we had to deal with was having no of it.
In my one experience, the bike reservations are not specific to a coach. You take pot luck on the end of the train you have chosen being occupied already.
Had great fun travelling first class (super-cheap ticket) with a bike on Virgin Pendolinos. The bike is at the other end of the train to my seat. Left 10 minutes before my station to get to the bike, but still only managed to get half way before giving up, due to passengers congregating in the vestibules, then isles up to the vestibules. A few comments along the lines of "we are all waiting to get off", and "why didn't you sit nearer your bike?".
Thought it wouldn't be worth it trying to answer latter question.