Stopping short on a route VIA ticket

[hick]

Morning,

Is it possible to stop short on a route via ticket having not yet reached the via point? The ticket in question has a LONDON routing in the yellow pages and a VIA point that can be achieved after having reached LONDON.

 

[RJ]

The right to break your journey is given by Condition 16 of the National Rail Conditions of Carriage.

There is no stated restriction on which intermediate stations you can break your journey at. I'd safely assume that you can break your journey at any intermediate station along a permitted route.

 

[bb21]

What ticket is it, and which station?

If it is a loophole ticket you can always send a PM.

 

[hick]

Thanks for the replies. I've found a previous thread talking about similar tickets and that the eRG has been hacked not to show them. Definitely high up the danger list!

 

[RJ]

If it is one of those funny tickets, you run the risk of coming across staff at a gateline who will tell you that you can only break your journey if you're travelling on the shortest route between the stations shown on the ticket.

Taking a printout from the NRCoC is advisable - but if you can't get them to allow you to leave the station with your valid ticket, you might need to call the BTP.

Also, I'd excise cation with using tickets not shown as valid on NRE. I personally would not want to defend using a such a ticket in court - presumably you'd use the NRG in your defence, which does say that you need to use the NRE Journey Planner to validate any routes you've found.