{"id":577504,"date":"2026-05-11T05:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T05:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/577504\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T05:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T05:08:12","slug":"t-bagging-is-the-latest-entitled-travel-behaviour-slammed-by-commuters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/577504\/","title":{"rendered":"‘T-bagging’ is the latest ‘entitled’ travel behaviour slammed by commuters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Get your head out of the gutter because ‘T-bagging’ – in the context of travelling – is not what you think it is.<\/p>\n

A growing number of rail riders are calling out a frustrating behaviour on today’s trains<\/a> in Britain.<\/p>\n

T-bagging, also known as ‘ticket baggers’, is a term coined towards passengers who sit in someone else’s reserved seat<\/a> and refuse to move.<\/p>\n

For many commuters, this isn’t a one-off experience and especially with all these cancellations going on at the minute – it happens more often than you think. <\/p>\n

After booking a seat in advance, travellers<\/a> on busy services are having to deal with outright rude passengers (can you tell I’m speaking from personal experience?) who react with annoyance when being told to budge over.<\/p>\n

\"ReservingReserving a seat is especially important for people hoping to get work done during the commute (Getty Stock Images)<\/p>\n

The entitlement of being asked to move out of a seat you haven’t paid for is truly something else. <\/p>\n

Over on TikTok, Lydia Wilson<\/a> spoke about how annoying it is in a now-viral video. <\/p>\n

As reported by Metro<\/a>, she said: “Just a public service announcement, if you\u2019re sat in my seat that I reserved on a train, I will ask you to move. <\/p>\n

“Don\u2019t look annoyed because funnily enough, you can also reserve a seat for free, or sit in an available one. I will not apologise if you are rude.”<\/p>\n

She went on: “As someone who gets the train regularly across the country, it is literally free (to reserve a seat), so move when I ask politely and don\u2019t huff and puff \u2013 it literally says reserved and you chose to ignore that.”<\/p>\n

\"ReservedReserved means reserved (Getty Stock Images)<\/p>\n

Fellow traveller Samuel Ryan added: “If they care so much about having a seat, maybe they should book it for themselves and stop playing the victim.<\/p>\n

“It wouldn\u2019t bother me if seats could or couldn\u2019t be reserved in the first place, but as long as the system to book seats is in place, people should respect that. <\/p>\n

“When it\u2019s incredibly busy, I would give my reserved seat up if someone truly needed it \u2013 if they\u2019re elderly, pregnant or disabled. <\/p>\n

“Other than that, being prepared costs nothing.”<\/p>\n

I couldn’t agree more. <\/p>\n

How to deal with ‘T-baggers’?<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Great Western Rail advised to Metro: “We recommend any customer who encounters the situation described to contact a member of staff who would then be able to speak to the other customer and ask them to move.”<\/p>\n

They noted that staff can only ask the passenger to move but only the police can actually remove someone with force. <\/p>\n