Quote: ccs "... does the link I posted show no seats available, or have you found it somewhere else?'"
The ones I check on the Virgin East Coast website just said "No seats available on this service" when I went through the booking page. You can get lucky sometimes though, open tickets can be refunded and you can change time on all tickets nowadays, which sometimes frees up seats on the system, you have to happen to be on the website when they come free.
My husband being one of them 
