Splitting ticket overnight

[Anonymous10]

Hi all, I plan to book an anytime return ticket from Haverfordwest to Truro, for the return I was hoping to leave Truro late morning or during the afternoon on Tuesday and stay overnight in Exeter then continue my journey home on the Wednesday afternoon, would that be possible? Or would i be best purchasing a single Truro to Exeter and the Truro to Haverfordwest on Wednesday to return from Exeter?

Many thanks for any advice.

 

[jfollows]

An anytime return is valid for 5 days outbound and 1 month return and you can break your journey as many times as you want within the validity of the ticket.

So, to be absolutely clear, what you propose is fine with that ticket.

 

[Anonymous10]

An anytime return is valid for 5 days outbound and 1 month return and you can break your journey as many times as you want within the validity of the ticket.

So, to be absolutely clear, what you propose is fine with that ticket.

Thanks for this, the national rail website I find is a minefield.

 

[jfollows]

Thanks for this, the national rail website I find is a minefield.

Agreed.

The National Rail Conditions of Travel at https://assets.nationalrail.co.uk/e...572570/National_Rail_Conditions_of_Travel.pdf may be the best place:

16. Break of Journey
INFORMATION: Most Tickets allow you to break your journey. This means that you do not have to make the whole of your journey at the same time or, where allowed, on the same day.
Please note that “advance” Tickets do not permit a break of journey. The special conditions for “advance” Tickets can be found at www.nationalrail.co.uk/advancetickets
Other national Ticket types normally allow break of journey with the exception of the outward portion of some longer distance “off-peak” returns. Where this is the case, it is made clear in the restrictions applying to those Tickets.
16.1 Where break of journey is allowed, there is no limit to the number of times that you can do so within a Ticket’s period of validity, until the journey is completed.
16.2 Generally, you may start, or break and resume, a journey (in either direction in the case of a return Ticket) at any intermediate station, as long as the Ticket you hold is valid for the trains you want to use. However, this may not be the case with some through services that take an indirect route. You may also end your journey (in either direction in the case of a return Ticket) before the destination shown on the Ticket.
16.3 If you start, break or resume your journey at an intermediate station where you are not entitled to do so, you will be liable to pay an excess fare. The price for this will be the difference between the amount paid for the Ticket you hold and the lowest price Ticket available for immediate travel that would have entitled you to start, break or resume your journey at the station concerned.
INFORMATION: For example, where a train service makes a circular journey, you may travel either way to the destination on your Ticket. However, you would not normally be allowed to get off at an intermediate station where the fare would have been higher.
16.4 Tickets valid for travel across London using Transport for London services do not entitle you to break your journey on London Underground and/or the Docklands Light Railway, unless your Ticket is a Season Ticket or a travelcard covering the Zones in which you are travelling.

and the one thing I would add is that you can break your journey on a ticket unless it says that you can't in its restrictions, and an anytime return doesn't have any such restriction.

 

[317 forever]

I had a Manchester - London TfW/LNWR off-peak return, outbound on Wednesday 29th and in practice returned just as far as Stockport on Thursday 30th.

Although the gates were open I touched out, so that the railway knew I had exited at Stockport.

I have a social in Manchester next Friday. This thread suggests that I will be able to use the return leg from Stockport to Manchester on a TfW train, but will of course need to pay for my journey home (admittedly more likely to be by bus).

 

[Haywain]

I had a Manchester - London TfW/LNWR off-peak return, outbound on Wednesday 29th and in practice returned just as far as Stockport on Thursday 30th.

Although the gates were open I touched out, so that the railway knew I had exited at Stockport.

I have a social in Manchester next Friday. This thread suggests that I will be able to use the return leg from Stockport to Manchester on a TfW train, but will of course need to pay for my journey home (admittedly more likely to be by bus).

Yes, if you haven't used that portion of the ticket it remains available to you.

 

[317 forever]

Yes, if you haven't used that portion of the ticket it remains available to you.

Thank you for confirming this. As my rides on TfW trains are fairly rare I may as well do so again.