Anyone been on an Avanti train recently?

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Need to travel from Bham to London (essential journey) and I’m very nervous.

I’ve booked a seat and understand that only certain ones can be booked to enable social distancing, but will people just get on without a ticket and take the other seats?

I’m really worried given how high infections are at the moment that this is a crazy risk of a journey, but I have to do it either this week or next.

Anyone done this journey recently?

I went on one not to long ago, you could only sit in the window seats, aisle seats were taped off. The driver (conductor?) kept making announcements over the tannoy to say that he could see people in the wrong seats and could they please move back to the ones they had booked, all did.

Thanks Hilary really appreciate the reply.

Bumping in case anyone else has been on a train recently!