I'm not really sure what you are talking about? Your post says 'outbound and return travel'; moreover the outbound and return restrictions are identical, so it doesn't make any difference which you posted.
No, your reply is wrong. The text from brfares.com is the same as when you first posted and it was completely wrong then and is completely wrong now.
http://www.brfares.com/#faredetail?orig=WOK&dest=1072&grpd=0035&tkt=SOI
The correct restriction is located on the National Rail website
http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/UR
The
return travel restrictions on BRFares as they applied to the OP's situation, wishing to return
PM from London to Woking are identical to and use the exact same wording as National Rail :
Return Travel
[Not valid on trains arriving: London Terminals: 09:31 11:59 - irrelevant here, as OP return travel is in opposite direction and he was not asking about outward travel]
If boarding at the stations below, not valid on trains departing:
London Terminals: 04:30-10:59 & 16:00-18:30
Vauxhall: 04:30-11:05 & 16:03-18:35
Queenstown Road: 04:30-11:05 & 16:03-18:35
Clapham Junction: 04:30-11:05 & 16:09-18:40
Any other station in London Zones 1-6 not listed above: 04:30-10:59.
The OP's question was :
I bought a Super Off Peak day travelcard from Woking ticket office yesterday and the staff said that I could not use it to come back before 6:30pm. This seems surprising for a weekend.
I then played with the ticket machine to find out more and it seems that this restriction only applies from Waterloo or Clapham or Vauxhall.
To get round this could I have boarded at Waterloo eg at 5pm on a train stopping at Surbiton, get off and on the same train there, and would be able to honestly tell the Woking barrier people that I had boarded at Surbiton? Or is this fraud.
My reply, I believe correctly, suggested that the OP could travel to Wimbledon by District Line then board there, avoiding PM restrictions boarding on trains leaving from London and as far as Clapham Junction that extended past 6:30 PM.
Whether the
complete restrictions on BRFares are or were incorrect seems to be irrelevant here because National Rail, if my eyes are not deceiving me, has exactly the same PM restrictions using the very same wording. I already stated that I accepted RJ's suggestion to quote National Rail rather than third party sites.
It's just unfortunate that I included the incorrect wording from from BRFares, "OUTWARD AND RETURN TRAVEL", but nevertheless it is absolutely clear from the context that we were talking about the OP returning PM from London to Woking and maybe wanting to leave before 6:30 PM.
To reiterate, AM restrictions are totally outside the context here and the direction of return travel (from London) is also totally clear.