Weybridge to London Waterloo via Woking

[sushiuk]

I wonder if someone can help me with this routeing query.

How is it that National Rail website shows services from Weybridge to London Waterloo involving a change at Woking - for the same price as the direct service (£7.80)?

An example is if you search for services on a weekday morning at 07:30.
You can see the direct service at 07:41 then a 07:42 service requiring a change at Woking.

This is doubling back isn't it - even though the service from Woking doesn't stop at Weybridge?

Weybridge & Woking are not in the same station group & I can't see any easements on this.

This is the first time I've tried to understand the Routeing Guide so apologies if I've missed something obvious.

 

[furlong]

How is it that National Rail website shows services from Weybridge to London Waterloo involving a change at Woking - for the same price as the direct service (£7.80)?

I can't think of an explanation for this based on any published documentation so I have no idea!

 

[455driver]

On a Sunday you can go to Byfleet and New Haw to change onto the Chertsey trains there because the trains start from Woking instead of Weybridge but that is the only one I know of.

 

[DJ737]

Hi there

The via Woking fare seems only to be available on Trainline powered sites and will probably be removed once the good folk of the Woking cotton on that they can save nearly £3.00 each way in the peak

Cheers
DJ737
Melbourne, Australia

 

[sushiuk]

So the thinking is that via Woking isn't a permitted route - it's a fare anomaly.

In that case I ought to apologise for publicising it!

 

[furlong]

So the thinking is that via Woking isn't a permitted route

(I think I've deduced what's gone wrong, but I don't want to explain here, sorry.)

More interestingly, it appears as if some historically reasonable routes for this journey have been withdrawn recently and that might be worth taking up through your M.P. if you live in Weybridge.

(E.g. You may no longer travel via Virginia Water unless using a through train and not breaking your journey.)

 

[hassaanhc]

I've had Waterloo-Woking-Weybridge offered by journey planners but the price was higher than the normal Waterloo-Weybridge fare, and exactly the same as a Waterloo-Woking CDR :? I wonder what that was issued as?

 

[sushiuk]

@Furlong
As long as I can remember the route from Weybridge to London via Virginia Water has been more expensive than via Surbiton.
It's not one I would generally take as it's well over an hour compared to 30-35 mins on the surbiton route.

 

[furlong]

It's not one I would generally take as it's well over an hour compared to 30-35 mins on the surbiton route.

But you can imagine it being very useful to people who *do* want to travel that way because they want to break their journey en-route and not have to pay for two separate tickets as they are now required to do (assuming no maladministration)?