This week I am traveling the North West of England on a Rail Rover Ticket.
That by the way is fantastic value at £80.35 railcard fare for 7 days travel, so a bit under £11.50 a day. Today for instance I am going from Cumbria to Liverpool, on to Shotton then back home via Warrington.
So I have been reserving seats 'on the fly' using the GWR website, a system that works brilliantly.
On Tuesday for instance I booked a seat at 1445 on the 1612 Liverpool to Carlisle train. That service broke down 20 minutes later on it's southbound journey. So at 1550 on a local train to Wigan I booked another seat on the 1626 Avanti train from Wigan.
That train was already well into its journey from London, and I didn't know you could book seats on Avanti trains after their journey had started but you can.
At Wigan the seat was there, correctly booked. I had to evict some poor soul who thought they had found a vacant seat at Euston!
Today I booked my Avanti seat an hour before travel, after the train had left Glasgow. And there it was when I boarded.
So an excellent scheme.