Routeing advice please!

[Freddie]

Howdy,

Am travelling Warrington - Woking on Saturday, returning on Sunday late afternoon, on an off-peak return (16-25 discounted)

With it being a Bank Holiday weekend, the WCML is in something of a state of disarray, especially on the Sunday. I'm OK on my outward leg (WBQ-CRE-EUS-WAT-WOK), but coming back I'm gonna have to avoid the WCML if possible.

I'm aware that a permitted route London-Warrington is MM+PS (St Pancras - Sheffield, Sheffield - Warrington), which would probably be my first choice if possible.

However, the available routes listed for Woking - Warrington are:
LONDON, PD+CS, PD+CS+LC, PD+LC, PD+MA+GM, WX+CS and WX+CS+LC; which obviously doesn't include the preferred MM+PS route.

This is the first time I've tried to use the NRG through London, so can't quite work out what the LONDON route includes. Does that allow me to also use routes London - Warrington, or something else?

 

[bb21]

LONDON routeing code means that you look up all permitted routes between your origin and London Group and between London Group and your destination, and combine the two.

If you are using the +Via London fare then MM+PS would be a legitimate route to use between the origin and London Group.

 

[Freddie]

Awesome, that's what I was hoping for.

Cheers!

 

[SickyNicky]

There are a good number of permitted combinations for this journey via London - (from trainscanbecheaper.info - click on the analyse mapped routes link to get a simple analysis of stations you could pass through):

• Any route 200.19 miles or less (i.e. within 3 miles of the shortest route above).
• Mapped routes from WARRINGTON BK QY to WOKING (analyse mapped routes)
  • CS+WX
  • CS+PD
  • GM+MA+PD
  • LC+PD
  • LC+CS+WX
  • LC+CS+PD
  • CS+LONDON+WX
  • CS+LONDON+WV+WX
  • CM+GC+LONDON+WX
  • PS+MM+LONDON+WX
  • CM+GC+LONDON+WV+WX
  • PS+MM+LONDON+WV+WX
  • LC+LONDON+WX
  • LC+LONDON+WV+WX
  • GM+MA+LONDON+WX
  • GM+MA+LONDON+WV+WX
  • CS+LONDON+WX+WV
  • CM+GC+LONDON+WX+WV
  • PS+MM+LONDON+WX+WV
  • LC+LONDON+WX+WV
  • GM+MA+LONDON+WX+WV
• Any additional route allowed by an easement.