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Can multiple via points appear on a ticket?

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For example, if a ticket is bought from Manchester to Birmingham, it usually stipulates "VALID ONLY VIA STAFFORD"

Can multiple stations appear here? For example, could purchasing a ticket beyond Birmingham - to Gloucester, for example - yield "VALID ONLY VIA STAFFORD AND BIRMINGHAM"? (That specific example may not exist, but are there any which do?)
 
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Yes. I've seen up to three geographic locations:

Route code 00808
Valid only for travel via (changing trains or passing through) London, Reading and Stroud.

There are many combinations of places, operators, and services (e.g. a specific bus or ferry).
 
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Examples include -
00013 TILBRY&GRAVESND
00362 VIA HIGH WYC&SHR
00363 VIA H WYC & BIRM
00625 HONITON AND CLAPHAM JUNCTION
00626 THORNFORD AND HONITON
00730 LONDON AND BATTLE
00761 EDENBRIDGE AND EDENBRIDGE TOWN
00793 GUILDFORD AND REDHILL
- there are certainly others.

I haven't checked whether these are all in current use.
 
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py_megapixel said:
For example, if a ticket is bought from Manchester to Birmingham, it usually stipulates "VALID ONLY VIA STAFFORD"
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Do you have any more details about this example? According to brfares, all Manchester Stations-Birmingham Stations tickets are ANY PERMITTED or Advance tickets with an operator restriction. The routeing guide permits several routes avoiding Stafford, including via Tamworth. Is your example based on different ticket?
 
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A route code can be specified with multiple via points. A ticket cannot have multiple route codes though.
 
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jawr256 said:
Do you have any more details about this example? According to brfares, all Manchester Stations-Birmingham Stations tickets are ANY PERMITTED or Advance tickets with an operator restriction. The routeing guide permits several routes avoiding Stafford, including via Tamworth. Is your example based on different ticket?
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It's a ticket I bought quite a while ago now which says "only via Stafford." Don't know I I still have it.

This was only an example to ask a generic question.
 
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