Kings Sutton / Banbury easement ?

[General Zod]

High Wycombe - Oxford journey. Is there an easement in place which would allow you to change at Banbury for XC trains or do you have to change at Kings Sutton onto FGW ?

cheers.

 

[yorkie]

The Routeing Guide can be found here.

You are permitted to 'double back' within station Groups.

Section F contains the list of Group stations.

GROUP NAME           STATION
BANBURY GROUP        BANBURY
                     KINGS SUTTON

So it would take a negative easement to disallow it.

However it would take a positive easement to allow travel from Kings Sutton itself, via Banbury to stations south/east of Kings Sutton....

Section E contains the easements.

These ones appear to be relevant to Banbury / Kings Sutton:-

50 Journeys to or from Kings Sutton may double back at Banbury.

...

52 Journeys from stations south of Kings Sutton may not go via Banbury to London nor via Banbury and London to stations beyond London. This prohibition applies in both directions.

So it appears to me that High Wycombe - Oxford is valid via Banbury, as the negative easement applies only to London & beyond.