Circular / 'round robin' tickets - What examples exist?

[Ken H]

I've done in the past lots of circular trips using the 3 mile rule. It's just a case of working out the mid way point.

3 mile rule?

 

[A S Leib]

3 mile rule?

Unless explicitly forbidden, any routes less than three miles than the shortest route possible are allowed.

Brief, rather old thread on it

 

[lyndhurst25]

I have had it confirmed from someone inside the Friends of the Settle Carlisle Line that Northern have indeed withdrawn the Horton/Clapham and Ribblehead/Bentham ticket inter-availability concession. It is something that the group is campaigning to get reintroduced.

To me it looks like yet another example of the railway trying to extract as much cash as it can from existing passengers, even at the risk of losing those passengers, rather than doing things that would attract new custom.

 

[jfollows]

To me it looks like yet another example of the railway trying to extract as much cash as it can from existing passengers, even at the risk of losing those passengers, rather than doing things that would attract new custom.

As in Avanti jacking up the price of its "Avanti-only" tickets to 10p less than the "any permitted" ones to trick people using the Internet or ticket machines in a hurry to buy them, but losing passengers like me who used to use them because they were a reasonably (lower) priced option. Yes, not uncommon.

 

[ktllo]

Portsmouth to Waterloo, out via Guildford, back via Basingstoke? It's more -o- shaped than O shaped, but does it count?

I guess the easier circular routes that aren't perfect circles would be the Waterloo - Waterloo?

This probably be rounder. Portsmouth - Clapham Junction. Via Basingstoke and via Three Bridge