What actually constitutes a break of journey

[northwichcat]

You may need to spell it out, I still don't know point what you are trying to make . A ticket with a break of journey restriction does remove flexibility from the ticket, that's rather the point of having a 'restriction'!

Yes, a time removes flexibility in that there are certain trains that you aren't able to use, however you can use any other service.

If you have a "no break of journey restriction" and you define a break of journey as taking anything other than the first available train, then you have no flexibility in your itinerary once you start travelling.

A hypothetical example could be you have a Edinburgh to Huddersfield ticket has a BOJ restriction. If you then alight a train from Edinburgh at Leeds and use the station toilet before going to catch to Huddersfield train and as a consequence of doing that miss the next Huddersfield train in the process you've not broken the ticket terms.

If on the other hand you leave Leeds station and do some shopping and then return for a later Huddersfield service then you have broken the terms.

 

[Deafdoggie]

Many years ago, when Crewe had the original ticket barriers (no actual barrier of course, just a man in a hut!) my mum used to just show her ticket, say "I just need to go to the enquiry office" they'd let her through, she'd wander off to Crewe town, and come back a few hours later "I've just been to the enquiry office" to the man in the in-bound hut, and that was that. No one minded!