Woman says 'I booked it' as she's praised for not giving up her train seat to elderly passenger

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A rail passenger has sparked a debate over travel etiquette after revealing she refused to give up her seat on an intercity train for an older lady.

The woman said she was travelling from London to Aberdeen on an unnamed rail service and had paid extra for a first-class ticket to guarantee she could work without any disturbances.

However when she boarded, she found her allocated seat was marked as a priority seat but stood her ground when a woman in her 60s demanded the seat, Edinburgh Live reports. "I recently got a train across the UK from London to Aberdeen.

It's a seven-hour journey so I booked myself a first-class seat well in advance," the woman said, sharing her story on Reddit. "First-class seats on trains in the UK can be expensive, but I decided to treat myself because 1), I knew I'd have work to do on the train, so I wanted to make sure I had space/comfort to be able to work, and 2), certain trains in the 'individual seats' which means you're not sitting next to or sitting opposite anyone.