It's so frustrating!
I need to book trips much further out that the typical 12 week lead on train tickets - this is things like trips away for weekends, or our main family holiday which we will do in the UK next year.
I want to book the train as, y'know - environmentally more friendly than me driving 6 hours, or flying 1 hour. But I can't do it. And I don't want to book accomodation for set days and spend £££ making pre bookings at theatre and other book ahead venues, to then have the train tickets release 3 months before we go and are either 3x the price they were last summer or they don't run on the specific days I've booked accommodation for.
Why are they 12 weeks? And even then it's "likely 12 weeks" - I've got a small trip to book for the first week of January and it's still saying "tickets coming soon"
If I want to go to Paris, I can book the Eurostar a year out. But then I can't book any transport to get me to the start of that journey!