Basingstoke to Wanborough

[Diplodicus]

Is an off-peak day return from Basingstoke to Wanborough valid via Guildford please?

Many thanks.

 

[LexyBoy]

Short answer: NRE shows this route for half of the journeys, and valid on a single ticket. It's also a perfectly reasonable route so it should be accepted.

Applying the Routeing Guide, the following constitute Permitted Routes:
1. The route taken by direct trains from origin to destination
None here.
2. The shortest route used by scheduled services
Which is Basingstoke-Woking-Guildford-Wanborough
3. Mapped routes
Wanborough has associated routeing points of Ash Vale, Wokingham, and Guildford. Guildford fails the fares check, and Wokingham doesn't give any routes as there is a negative easement forbidding travel via Reading. Basingstoke-Ash Vale has mapped routes on map LE, which allows Basingstoke-Woking-Ash Vale-Wanborough or Basingstoke-Farnborough Main-Farnborough North-North Camp-Ash Vale-Wanborough (should you wish to stretch your legs, presumably).

 

[Diplodicus]

LexyBoy