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Question around Wakefield stations and ticket validity

Teapot42

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Due to a car issue I need to use the train tomorrow to get from Chesterfield to Normanton. Where I'm heading isn't that near Normanton station - it's about 25 minutes walk, making it pretty equal between getting a bus from Wakefield or the train to Normanton and walking.

I'm thinking though, if I get a ticket CHD - NOR, would I be able to use trains to Wakefield Westgate, or only to Kirkgate? When I plan journeys from Wakefield to Chesterfield, most options are from Westgate, presumably as the services from there are faster than those from Kirkgate. There are no direct trains from Westgate to Normanton (and you'd pass though Kirkgate anyway) so I've not been able to generate an itinerary for CHD - NOR that includes a change at Westgate, which further makes me question if it would be allowed. The option to walk is given, but that's also given at New Mills and the same ticket isn't valid to both.

My thinking is I've probably got more flexibility just getting a ticket to Wakefield Stations and ignoring the option to get closer by train, unless there is a way a Normanton ticket could be used to Westgate.
 
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The other routeing points for Normanton are Leeds and Pontefract, but neither of these is valid for Chesterfield-Normanton because they don’t pass the fare check rule. Wakefield is a valid routeing point for this journey.

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Dewedin

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Yes this is fine, the Wakefield stations are both a fares group and a routeing group, and tracing the mapped route Chesterfield-Sheffield-Swinton-Wakefield Group (Westgate then Kirkgate) doesn't involve any doubling back. Then local journey to Normanton. So overall a Chesterfield to Normanton ticket is valid this way as has already been explained Wakefield Group is an appropriate routeing point.
 

Teapot42

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Thanks all, I'd not appreciated that by being part of a fares group either is valid. Should help if anything goes wrong tomorrow.
 

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