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It could be to allow break of journey on a journey from the south that you intend to finish at Waterloo, Charing Cross, Cannon Street, or whatever.

Exeter St Davids, St Thomas and Central are still in a station group for routeing purposes.

In Bremme, the defendant was behind the barrier so the precedent doesn't touch that. Yes. The defendant claimed that a RoRA prosecution was invalid because the prosecution could not show that he had formed the intent whilst on the train; the court held that even whilst on the platform after...

This is not an opinion that 'some would argue'; this is the law. Bremme v Dubery, 1964, established that in law you are "travelling on the railway" after having alighted the train and before having left the station.

For me, that would be Newcourt (four and a half miles away, on the other side of town) and Newton St Cyres (five and a half miles away, in a nearby village). I've only ever used St James's Park (just two miles away) once, though I generally walk past it several times a week.

There are certainly a small number of guards, gateline staff, etc., who regard their little corners of the railway as their fiefdoms and their own idiosyncratic interpretations of the rules as having been handed down on stone tablets. Fortunately, such types only represent a small minority of...

Ticket barriers often reject perfectly valid tickets. Don't worry about it too much.

Good luck finding a guard willing to do that...

Could you be clearer as to the wording on the voucher? Also, which TOC was this?

Exeter Central's barriers operate according to arcane rules understood by no mortal. I've gone through the Plymouth, St David's and Newton Abbot barriers with no issues on a Devon Ranger.

Exeter St Thomas to Exeter Central is timetabled as ten minutes plus a deceptively long walk at Central, and it's only 0.8 miles on foot, so I'd fancy my chances against the train entrance-to-entrance even if you timed it so you turned up when a train was just coming

And I've just noticed: you've gone clockwise!

Yes, the need for a via Leicester (or in your case Bristol) dogleg for my circumnavigation or your Orbital 4 is rather annoying, not to mention bringing the cost up pretty close to £100.00 even with a railcard and split ticketing

A quick look at timetable T7 confirms that this is not the case. It particularly irks me in the case of Tiverton Parkway, as it would be permitted according to the normal rules of the routeing guide but is prevented by a negative easement (000076). It's only a double-back of one station and...

London Paddington, Bristol, Reading etc. to Tiverton Parkway via Exeter St Davids is not permitted, even though all trains on that line call at Exeter and some don't call at Tiverton. Back in January I found myself at Taunton on a Saturday aiming to travel to Tiverton - the 16:34 out of Taunton...

Newcourt, as both it and Widnes are half-an-hour's walk from parks named after King George.

According to National Rail Enquiries (www.nationalrail.co.uk/advancetickets): "If the train you purchased a ticket for is cancelled or is delayed and you still decide to travel, special arrangements will be made to accommodate you on another train (although a seat cannot be guaranteed)." I...

It seems particularly pedantic given that Pinhoe and Whimple stations are only about an hour's and an hour and a quarter's walk respectively from Cranbrook station (and significantly less to some areas of Cranbrook village). It's not as though the customer was hoping to travel a great distance...

In addition to what Yorkie says above, even if the NRCoT did allow for tickets to be restricted by brand, the tickets in this instance were valid for Govia Thameslink Railway services. Govia Thameslink Railway is a TOC, not a brand; the brand is just Thameslink (or ThamesLink, or Thameslink...

Otherwise known as sitting still and waiting for the Earth to rotate! Though I imagine things are eerily quiet at the moment.