National rail website journey planner - via option removed?

[joncombe]

I am sure the National Rail journey planner used to have a via option, to specify a specific route a few days ago. Now it seems to have been removed? Am I missing something or did they really get rid of this?

I am trying to find trains via Honiton but I can't do it because there is no ability to specify via Honiton any longer. Has this feature really been removed? If so what is the justification for selling tickets via a specific route if you can't find out which trains run via that route?

 

[KNN]

I am sure the National Rail journey planner used to have a via option, to specify a specific route a few days ago. Now it seems to have been removed? Am I missing something or did they really get rid of this?

I am trying to find trains via Honiton but I can't do it because there is no ability to specify via Honiton any longer. Has this feature really been removed? If so what is the justification for selling tickets via a specific route if you can't find out which trains run via that route?

Still there for me, are you using a computer or your phone?

I'd double check it hasn't sent you to the Live Departures section instead of Journey Planner as that's happened to me a couple of times.

If that doesn't work clearing cookies sometimes helps.

As an aside, if it's a few days ahead I usually use fastjp.com as you have more options. It's not always up to date during disruption though so I revert back to NRE/RTT then.

 

[DelW]

I am sure the National Rail journey planner used to have a via option, to specify a specific route a few days ago. Now it seems to have been removed? Am I missing something or did they really get rid of this?

I am trying to find trains via Honiton but I can't do it because there is no ability to specify via Honiton any longer. Has this feature really been removed? If so what is the justification for selling tickets via a specific route if you can't find out which trains run via that route?

I think it used to be in the journey options menu (which seems to me to be the obvious place for it).

But now it's selected via underlined text saying " Route via / avoid", just below the "Going to" box. Selecting that text brings up two additional boxes, "Travelling via" and "Station name or code".

It's easy to overlook it, it might be better (considering how much screen space is empty) if it was always visible.

 

[joncombe]

Ok I can see it again now but pretty sure it wasn't there when I looked yesterday. Thanks all for the help.

 

[yorkie]

An alternative to NRE is www.fastjp.com which powers the forum's ticketing site.