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Booking engine that allows different via points on outward/return legs?

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jnjkerbin

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Does anyone know of a booking engine that allows different via points to be specified for the outward/return legs, ideally also allowing one to specify a stopover time? Something similar to what bahn.de offers, but that can sell National Rail tickets?

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Trainsplit allows this, as does Trains Can Be Cheaper for non split tickets.
 

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Does anyone know of a booking engine that allows different via points to be specified for the outward/return legs, ideally also allowing one to specify a stopover time? Something similar to what bahn.de offers, but that can sell National Rail tickets?

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I agree with @Hadders - Trainsplit/Trainscanbecheaper will do most of what you want.

You can set arbitrary stop points ( specified separately for in-bound / out-bound ) and you can set an extra time (up to 99m) for changes - again with different times for out and back.

However, if you're changing at multiple stations, you're limited to just one extra-time setting for out-bound and one for in-bound.

And if you want to break your journey at a station where you're not changing trains then, whilst you can request a train that stops there, you can't specify a break at that station before resuming (at least I can't spot a way of doing that.)

Nonetheless, I think that Trainsplit/Trainscanbecheaper offer more flexibility than the other UK rail retail sites.
 

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And if you want to break your journey at a station where you're not changing trains then, whilst you can request a train that stops there, you can't specify a break at that station before resuming (at least I can't spot a way of doing that.)
But if you're breaking your journey then you're implicitly changing trains?
 

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But if you're breaking your journey then you're implicitly changing trains?


Sorry, yes, of course - that's true. ( And I now see that specifying change at also enables per-point delay times. )
 
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