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Rights regarding an inferred break of journey which could not have occurred

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Assuming I (hypothetically) held an anytime day single from Flint to Crewe, would I be able to start short from Shotton on the 05:22 service. Obviously, in practice it would be impossible for be to actually have come from Flint and broken my journey at Shotton, however, the rules still infer the ticket would be valid.

I am not asking about how this would work in practice; rather whether or not the ticket would be valid.
 
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Ignoring tickets to Ireland, there is no break of journey restriction on Anytime/Anytime Day tickets.

So yes, you could.
 
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Merseysider said:
Ignoring tickets to Ireland, there is no break of journey restriction on Anytime/Anytime Day tickets.

So yes, you could.
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Thanks; this is interesting- provision for BoJ when none could've possibly happened was not what I expected.
 
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The wording in National Rail Conditions of Travel is "start, or break and resume, a journey at any intermediate station". The whole is commonly referred to as BoJ (even in NRCoT !) when, in fact, starting a journey at an intermediate is a different thing to breaking a journey there.
 
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Shotton said:
Assuming I (hypothetically) held an anytime day single from Flint to Crewe, would I be able to start short from Shotton on the 05:22 service
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Yes. An Anytime ticket is not only valid for the complete journey (with any number of breaks if you wish), but also for any part journey via a Permitted Route. Obviously if you start short you can't then go back and do the untaken start bit, though.
 
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sheff1 said:
The wording in National Rail Conditions of Travel is "start, or break and resume, a journey at any intermediate station". The whole is commonly referred to as BoJ (even in NRCoT !) when, in fact, starting a journey at an intermediate is a different thing to breaking a journey there.
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and for lots of journeys you can even leave your origin the night before the actual ticket validity...
 
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