My wife and I are going on a hiking vacation in Yorkshire this May. We will not have a car and are planning to use trains and busses as needed. On Sunday the 12th, we’ll be taking the train from Middlesbrough to Lincoln. We have a two for one rail card and are booking through the LNER website.
I’ve put in the necessary information to purchase the tickets and see that we’ll have two connections. There is an 8 minute time difference between the two trains at the first connection and a 12 minute difference at the second connection. It seems the Anytime Day ticket is the safest bet given the short turnaround time. I checked and there are later trains that we could catch if we missed the connections. However the LNER site also suggests buying Off-Peak tickets instead even though they appear to be limited to the specific trains that you book.
I have a couple of questions:
1. Is the Anytime ticket the best choice?
2. How are assigned seats managed? In booking the Anytime tickets, LNER site does not provide seat numbers for the first and third trains but gives us assigned seats on the second train.
Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I’d like to go ahead and buy the tickets in the next couple of days.
Thanks!
Jim