WIN - WKM routing advise please.
Would someone be able to tell me is this valid through Woking?
There are currently no Winchester - Wokingham fares route Any Permitted. Fares are route Farnborough North or Route Reading.
My calculation is:
Routeing Points (RPs) for Winchester are Basingstoke and Eastleigh.
Wokingham is a RP.
Fares check
Winchester - Wokingham route Farnborough North SDS £14.00
Winchester - Wokingham route Reading SDS £15.40
Basingstoke - Wokingham route Any Permitted SDS £9.50
Eastleigh - Wokingham route Not London SDS £16.50
Therefore the only appropriate RPs for this journey are Basingstoke and Wokingham.
Permitted routes between Basingstoke and Wokingham are on maps CS, MW+WX and WW.
Map CS allows two routes:
- Basingstoke - Reading - Wokingham
- Basingstoke - Reading - Slough - Hayes & Harlington - Kensington Olympia - Clapham Jn - Streatham - Croydon - Redhill - Dorking - Guildford - Farnborough - Wokingham. It seems that both Route Farnborough North and Route Reading tickets would be valid by this route, but there are no trains this way in the current timetable!
Map WW allows one route:
- Basingstoke - Farnborough - Brookwood - Ash Vale - Camberley - Ascot - Wokingham.
Maps MW+WX allow at least 3 routes:
- WX: Basingstoke - Salisbury - Westbury, then MW: Westbury - Bath Spa - Chippenham - Swindon - Didcot - Reading - Wokingham
- WX: Basingstoke - Salisbury - Westbury, then MW: Westbury - Melksham - Chippenham - Swindon - Didcot - Reading - Wokingham
- WX: Basingstoke - Farnborough Main, then walk to MW: Farnborough North - Wokingham.
The question is whether this map combination also allows:
- WX: Basingstoke - Farnborough Main - Woking - Worplesdon - Guildford, then MW: Guildford - Farnborough North - Wokingham.
My opinion is that this is a Permitted Route because there is no
doubling back. Others may disagree. We debated the issue in September 2010 in the
Double Back Question thread. It is not clear whether we reached a consensus.
