Is Chesterfield to Wilmslow via Piccadilly a permitted route?

Kernel_Sanders

I'll be getting an off-peak open return from CHD to WML (£22.70) where the most direct route is a single change at Stockport. (bizarrely, the same ticket from Chesterfield to Stockport is £26!) I'd like to stay on the train past Stockport and spend some time in Manchester before going to Wilmslow, but the same ticket from Chesterfield to Piccadilly is also £26, so would it be disallowed on those grounds?(i.e. people only going from CHD to MAN could routinely get the Wilmslow ticket to save £3.30 each time). If so, could I not start off on a Leeds-bound train, obliging me to change at Sheffield, then get the slow stopping train to Manchester which doesn't go via Stockport?

stclair

You can use the routing calculator to see which routes you can take.

http://data.atoc.org/rp_calc

Its all very complex I might add reading it my head was frazzled lol