Restriction code UL and Hovertravel

[Skymonster]

Looking for a little assurance please…

Ticket:
Woking-Ryde Hoverport Super Offpeak return

Restriction code: UL

Outward Travel​

Not valid on trains timed to depart after 04:29 and before 12:01

Return Travel​

Not valid on trains timed to depart after 04:29 and before 12:01

Presumably, because it says not valid on trains (and doesn’t say not valid on hovercraft), on the return / northbound trip one can use a Hovertravel service from Ryde to Southsea prior to 12:01 as long as one doesn’t board the train from Portsmouth and Southsea until 12:01?

Strangely - and why I’m hesitant - TrainSplit won’t offer that ticket if I chose to leave Ryde on the return at 11:15

Thanks

 

[Bletchleyite]

Trains in this case would typically mean services, which would include "virtual trains" like hovercraft.

The electronic restrictions would seem to back that up, hence why Trainsplit won't sell it:

Not valid to depart​

any location​

0430–1200​

on any TOC​

 

[Skymonster]

That is as maybe - and I understand why you say what you do - but (a) I quoted the publicly available National Rail website definition of the restriction, (b) a train isn’t a hovercraft so a different restriction code that mentions hovercraft could be used if the intent is to restrict hovercraft too and (c) Hovertravel isn’t a TOC. Hence why I asked the question as there is ambiguity in the definitions.