Train can i break my journey

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IanD Established Member. You can't break your journey at all on an Advance ticket. IanD said:. To add to what dyss said earlier For the benefit of anyone who isn't sure, breaking your journey doesn't mean changing trains; it means exiting a station except under certain circumstances see Break of journey for details.

The rules for the outward portion of Off Peak tickets are unclear as we need to know the origin and destination to be certain, but you generally can break your journey, and for any restriction to apply you must be told about it when you buy the ticket. Please check the ticket terms for validity. Flexible ticket only valid at specific off-peak times of the day. Last edited by a moderator: 22 Jan Thanks for all those replies. Can anyone decipher this for me??

It seems to contradict itself I just want to break it for longer than just to get from one national rail station to another! Also what does the "Not applicable" mean at the end? That you can or can't break the return journey?

Tickets will only be accepted by London Underground and DLR up to the last day of validity of the ticket and until the following day. Other than to change trains, a break of journey at intermediate London Underground or DLR stations is not permitted. Then a bit further on under "Break of Journey" Outward: A break of journey is permitted unless otherwise indicated by a restriction shown against the ticket's Restriction Code. Overnight break of journey - if the journey cannot be completed in this time, the ticket may be used to continue the journey on the following day.

Unless otherwise indicated in the relevant restriction code, time restrictions applyas from the initial origin station on both days. The appropriaterestrictionsfor the actual day on which travel isbeing undertaken apply for example, it may be that if day 1 is on Sunday, no restrictions apply, but on day 2, the Monday-Fridayrestrictions apply.

All travel must be completed by in the morning after this second day. I don't know where the restriction would be found. Is it on the ticket?

I don't have any leftover ones at the moment to see if there's somewhere for a restriction code. While I'm at it, can someone tell me why there are different super off peak prices on Chiltern Railways website when the more expensive one seems to be valid on fewer trains and they all seem to be restricted to "via Banbury"?

Correct, it's easy with Anytime tickets, it's allowed, and with Advance tickets, it isn't allowed. It's Off-Peak that can vary! Assuming the ticket you plan to buy is an Off-Peak Return from London to Warwick route Banbury, here are the details when I run it through a handy site called www.

There is no restriction on break of journey listed under the validity code WZ, so yes you can break your journey in both directions on a ticket with ticket type SVR long-distance Off-Peak Return, the former Saver fare.

Not universally true - for some journeys you certainly can. In fact I'd hazard a wild guess that it's the exception not to be able to. I can't remember where I read that you couldn't break a journey on a one way off peak fare.

Maybe on the London forum? I'm a fan of reading them, but they certainly don't make it easy.