Glasgow to London off peak return - outward portion BoJ

[Peter0124]

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It says BoJ is not permitted on the outward except to change trains.
Would I be able to do Glasgow - Preston, Preston - Manchester and Manchester - Euston providing I don't leave any of the stations? As technically I'm just changing trains, but voluntarily.

 

[Bletchleyite]

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It says BoJ is not permitted on the outward except to change trains.
Would I be able to do Glasgow - Preston, Preston - Manchester and Manchester - Euston providing I don't leave any of the stations? As technically I'm just changing trains, but voluntarily.

Yes. Changing trains is not break of journey and this is a permitted route.

 

[Peter0124]

Yes. Changing trains is not break of journey and this is a permitted route.

I see thanks, so theoretically I could get off at any and every stop along a valid route providing I don't leave the station, and travel within that day? Without breaking the rules?

 

[Bletchleyite]

I see thanks, so theoretically I could get off at any and every stop along a valid route providing I don't leave the station, and travel within that day? Without breaking the rules?

Correct, though with BoJ being no longer defined I would be wary of hanging around on a station too long as well. It would be hard, without a definition, to argue that say going to a station and hanging round for an hour or two photographing trains wasn't break of journey, but changing trains definitely isn't.

 

[Watershed]

Correct, though with BoJ being no longer defined I would be wary of hanging around on a station too long as well. It would be hard, without a definition, to argue that say going to a station and hanging round for an hour or two photographing trains wasn't break of journey, but changing trains definitely isn't.

In practice I cannot imagine the BoJ restriction being enforced unless you try to start 'late' at Preston or south thereof, during a time when Off-Peak tickets from there to London (which have more onerous restrictions than Glasgow ones) wouldn't be valid.

 

[Peter0124]

How likely would I be told off if I stayed at Piccadilly for an hour or two before, and then maybe Stoke for a similar time?