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That's my experience, reservations are most needed in London but less of an issue elsewhere.
Last year I just got on a train from Gloucester to London after I'd DNFd an event. There were not meant to be bike spaces free but, in practice there was at least one free and I had no issues.
I went to the bike at stops to make sure, so I could take mine out, or even get off if need be, but it was fine.I went to Bristol last week and I had a reservation, but didn't need to show it to get on the train at Paddington, and there were several free spaces.
Gwr trains seen to have more spaces than they used to.
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On GWR your success depends on whether you can get to the train without encountering an odious member of staff.
At Paddington you definitely want a reservation, at smaller stations or stations with lots of non-reservation trains you’ll probably be ok.