Off Peak Day Return - Break Journey?

Stompa

Does anybody know if you are allowed to break your (rail) journey on the outward stage of an Off Peak Day Return or Super Off Peak Day Return?

That is, if you have a return ticket from A to B then return to A, can you get off at an intermediate station between A and B on the outward stage?

Thanks

dzug1

Yes you can - as long as all the trains you use meet the correct off peak definition.

There are supposedly some exceptions to this but the list of them seems to be a closely guarded secret

Stompa

dzug1 wrote: »

Yes you can - as long as all the trains you use meet the correct off peak definition.

There are supposedly some exceptions to this but the list of them seems to be a closely guarded secret

Great, many thanks. I'll double-check at the ticket office as well just to ensure my particular requirement isn't one of those exceptions.

ticketcollector

If you tell me your travel details and ticket type I can look up the restriction code and then tell you what the restriction is in plain english.

The general rule is yes you can break the journey, both on the out and return.
However you must not travel back on yourself at any point.

E.g. A-B-C-D. You get off at C to break journey, you cant then go back to B and then to D.
Also all journeys must be completed by the end of service.

moonrakerz

ticketcollector wrote: »

The general rule is yes you can break the journey, both on the out and return.

Not wishing to nit-pick - but !

Only yesterday I was trying to plan a journey from A to C, via B. I wished to break the journey at B for an hour or so. Ticket was off-peak day return.

This is what the National Rail website tells me:-



The GWR (the one I normally use) says:-

ticketcollector

The rules for break of journey changed with the recent so called "simplification".

I would go with what National Rail says, as FGWs ticket site is a white label site for trainline.con which we all know are a bunch of con artists.
Having looked at my old Fares Manual is also confirms what National Rail has said and contradicted FGW.

Stompa

ticketcollector wrote: »

If you tell me your travel details and ticket type I can look up the restriction code and then tell you what the restriction is in plain english.

Thanks, it was really a bit of speculative query at the moment, but I'll bear your kind offer in mind.

moonrakerz

ticketcollector wrote: »

The rules for break of journey changed with the recent so called "simplification".

I would go with what National Rail says, as FGWs ticket site is a white label site for trainline.con which we all know are a bunch of con artists.
Having looked at my old Fares Manual is also confirms what National Rail has said and contradicted FGW.

If that is "simplification" ! I think you would agree that neither statement is actually particularly enlightening - if you just go out and buy a ticket you still would not be sure if you could break that particular journey. I solved my problem anyway, I am now going by train to B, and in my daughter's car from B to C and back to B !

gner_ex

ticketcollector wrote: »

FGWs ticket site is a white label site for trainline.con which we all know are a bunch of con artists.

Couldn't have put it better myself.

rich_shot2003

gner_ex wrote: »

Couldn't have put it better myself.

I book with FGW site all the time even that i live in the north as i find it the best site out of all of them.

So well done to FGW i say!!!

gner_ex

rich_shot2003 wrote: »

I book with FGW site all the time even that i live in the north as i find it the best site out of all of them.

So well done to FGW i say!!!

No - we are commenting on the evil trainline. Compared to them, FGW are popes and saints.