Is stopover allowed with an offpeak train ticket in UK?

5/17/2018 12:37:50 PM

Peter Green has answered the first part of your question very well – the fare you’re looking at allows break of journey (in fact, all anytime and most off-peak tickets allow this), so you should have no problem having a lunch break in Shrewsbury. Since the anytime tickets are valid for at least two days (an anytime single is valid two days; an anytime return is valid 5 days on the outward portion and a month on the return) you can even have an overnight break if you wish!

In terms of ticket purchasing, yes, the rule (6.1 on page 7) is that you must buy a ticket at the first opportunity you get on your journey. This is taken to mean that if there’s ticket buying facilities at a station, you must buy it there. But if there aren’t, you may take a seat on the train and wait for the guard. While some operators encourage it, there is no requirement to actively seek out the guard (but of course, you may choose to do so to set your mind at ease, and especially on other routes with fewer stations with no ticket facilities, doing so to avoid potential trouble could be wise). If the guard doesn’t come round (which may be down to their machine being broken or them just not wanting to come round and sell tickets…), you must buy a ticket at the first interchange station with ticket-buying facilities where you have sufficient time to do so (in your case it would likely be Shrewsbury).

5/17/2018 6:04:49 AM

In theory whether “break of journey” is allowed on an off-peak ticket depends on the particular ticket. Most allow it but some have restrictions preventing it.

Curiously though I don’t see any off peak singles from PWL to BRI, only anytime singles. It seems an anytime single from PWL to BRI via Hereford costs £53.10 and doesn’t have any restrictions.

http://www.brfares.com/#faredetail?orig=PWL&dest=BRI&rte=822&tkt=SOS

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