"John Salmon" wrote in message
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"Hobbyist" wrote
"John Salmon" wrote:
"Hobbyist" wrote

I have made two trips via Virgin. On the first, I had reserved a
seat via website, but on boarding the train, it had NOT been
reserved. Luckily it wasn't busy that day, and I got an empty seat
no problem. On the second trip, they forgotten to load the food
and drink for the buffet car, so from London, there was nothing
available unitl we got to York and arrangements were made. As the
joke goes, the name "Virgin" should be changed, because it's
f*cked! :-)

I wonder whether East Coast know that Virgin are running trains from
London to York?

This must have been early noughties, and I'm sure it was Virgin. And
the only time I reserve a train seat is from London to N/cle -
journey is 3 hours plus.

I think you'll find Virgin have never operated London - York. They
ran to York with CrossCountry trains until they lost the franchise.

In the early days of VXC they used to serve Paddington. Did any of these
trains ever go to York?

Peter Smyth