Getting on 'en route' for a Super Off Peak Return

[johnny_t]

This weekend, I have to go down to Heathrow, for which I have purchased a Super Off-Peak return from York. However, there are engineering works, which means that the York to Doncaster segment is being diverted.

I live in Selby, so am getting a lift to the station. However, the 0902 from York doesn't actually get to Donny until 1011 on this particular routing, which would probably gain my wife (the lift-giver) an extra 45 precious minutes in bed.

As I'll already have the ticket in hand, is there anything to stop me getting on at the 'wrong' station ? Are there any other pitfalls that I haven't considered ?

 

[Haywain]

The obvious choice would be to go from Selby to Leeds and pick up the train there, but I'm not sure if your ticket would be valid for that.

 

[Watershed]

The obvious choice would be to go from Selby to Leeds and pick up the train there, but I'm not sure if your ticket would be valid for that.

It wouldn't be valid between Selby and Micklefield, so you would need to buy a separate ticket, or accept the risk of being charged an excess fare, from Selby to Micklefield (or the first stop thereafter).

However OP's ticket would be valid to start their journey at Leeds or Doncaster.

 

[johnny_t]

The obvious choice would be to go from Selby to Leeds and pick up the train there, but I'm not sure if your ticket would be valid for that.

I did consider that but, as I will have luggage, preferred the idea of getting a direct train. (If Hull Trains had been running North of Donny this weekend then that would have been the obvious choice)

 

[30907]

There is no restriction forbidding you boarding at Doncaster with this ticket.