Easements

There appears to be an updated Easements section of the routeing guide, dated today (21 Feb). Is anyone able to do a comparison of between this and the previous version to see what's new/changed?

Some easements have been added at the bottom from 700213 onward.

Since diff doesn't work on PDFs I'm hoping someone can get a changelog and other than that I cannot be sure of changes

I've got the previous copy of the easements saved somewhere, I'm just hunting it down to do a comparison.

EDIT

SS4 is correct the new easements have been added at the bottom. I don't really want to trawl through the rest to see what else has changed.

700213 looks like a reworded version of 700208. Both are out of date.

700208 said:

During the period 27/12/11 to 02/01/12 inclusive, customers travelling from Malvern Link, Great Malvern, Worcester Foregate Street and Worcester Shrub Hill to London and beyond may travel via Birmingham New Street. This easement applies in both directions.

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700213 said:

During the period 27/12/2011 to 02/01/2012 inclusive customers travelling from Malvern Link, Great Malvern, Worcester Shrub Hill and Worcester Foregate Street to or via London in possession of tickets routed 'Evesham' may travel via Birmingham New Street. This easement applies in both directions.

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CHANGES IN SECTION E

DELETED EASEMENTS
19 Journeys via Polegate and Pevensey & Westham or to or from Hampden Park may double back from Eastbourne. This easement applies in both directions.

21 Journeys via London or between London and Chapel & Wakes Colne, Bures or Sudbury, using Great Eastern services only, may go via Colchester.

74 Journeys on West Anglia and Anglia or Great Eastern services via Liverpool Street station on a ticket with a cross-London marker are allowed to double back at Bethnal Green.

30175 Customers travelling between Ladybank and Dundee may travel via Perth. This easement applies in both directions.




ADDED EASEMENTS
700213 During the period 27/12/2011 to 02/01/2012 inclusive customers travelling from Malvern Link, Great Malvern, Worcester Shrub Hill and Worcester Foregate Street to or via London in possession of tickets routed 'Evesham' may travel via Birmingham New Street. This easement applies in both directions.

700214 Customers travelling from Alfreton or Langley Mill to or via London St Pancras, in possession of tickets routed 'Any Permitted' may travel via Chesterfield. This easement applies in both directions.

700215 Customers travelling from Pegswood, Widdrington and Acklington to or via Alnmouth in possession of tickets routed DIRECT may not travel via Morpeth. This easement applies in both directions.

700216 Customers travelling from Chathill to or via Berwick Upon Tweed in possession of tickets routed DIRECT or ANY PERMITTED may not travel via Morpeth. This easement applies in both directions.

700217 Customers travelling from Burton On Trent via Chesterfield may travel via Derby. This easement applies in both directions.

700218 Customers travelling from Dalston Kingsland and Canonbury via to or via London Kings X may travel via Highbury & Islington. This easement applies in both directions.

700219 Customers travelling from Thurso to Wick may not travel via Scotscalder. This easement applies in both directions.



AMENDED EASEMENTS
60 Passengers travelling from Kings Lynn, Ely and stations in between to Stansted Airport may double back from Bishops Stortford. This applies in both directions.
REPLACED BY
700220 Customers travelling via Audley End to Stansted Airport may double back between Stansted Mountfitchet and Bishops Stortford. This easement applies in both directions


61 Journeys to St Ives, Carbis Bay, Lelant and Lelant Saltings from stations east of St Erth may go via Penzance. This applies in both directions.
REPLACED BY
700221 Customers travelling from, to or via Truro to St Ives, Carbis Bay, Lelant and Lelant Saltings may double back between St Erth and Penzance. This easement applies in both directions.


Peter

I do wonder why they bother with some of the negative easements.

700215 said:

Customers travelling from Pegswood, Widdrington and Acklington to or via Alnmouth in possession of tickets routed DIRECT may not travel via Morpeth. This easement applies in both directions.

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There is only one direct train from Pegswood to Alnmouth each day.

There are only two trains from Pegswood to Morpeth. Travelling this direction to get to Alnmouth involves changing at Newcastle and a 2 hour delay.

I can't find a route DIRECT ticket.

OwlMan said:

700217 Customers travelling from Burton On Trent via Chesterfield may travel via Derby. This easement applies in both directions.

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And how, pray tell, would you suggest they travel from Burton via Chesterfield without going via Derby? Another one to fix some broken routeing engine or other presumably.

OwlMan said:

700216 Customers travelling from Chathill to or via Berwick Upon Tweed in possession of tickets routed DIRECT or ANY PERMITTED may not travel via Morpeth. This easement applies in both directions.

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Hmm, this seems to conflict with:
So from Chathill doubling-back via Morpeth is not allowed - but if I going all the way to Newcastle to double-back is OK?

Negative easements prohibit any route allowed by the Routeing Guide.

hairyhandedfool said:

Negative easements prohibit any route allowed by the Routeing Guide.

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But shouldn't they be brought to the customer's attention at the time the ticket is purchased?

Well, you could answer that in a number of ways, but ticket machines shouldn't offer routes for which the fare is not valid and thus it rarely crops up.