Blackpool to London Valid Routes

[rocrat]

Ticket held: off-peak return London Terminals (LON) to Blackpool North (BPN)

Using the return portion BPN-LON, restriction code 9I (and therefore also 2V, YG/GO), after 1130 on a Friday (with journey into London on the Saturday).

Route (maps RP + RG):
Blackpool North to Preston (Northern)
Preston to Crewe (AWC)
Crewe to Wilmslow (AWC)
Wilmslow to Manchester Airport (Northern)
Manchester Airport to Manchester Piccadilly (TPE)
Manchester Piccadilly to Birmingham New Street (XC, 'not via Wilmslow')
Birmingham Moor Street to Banbury (Chiltern)
Banbury to Oxford (GWR)
(overnight break of journey)
Oxford to London (XC/GWR via Reading)

Is this a valid route? I had a rather large amount of time to kill and drew this out to be longer as I'd done most of the other mapped routes before! Thanks in advance

 

[Mcr Warrior]

One for the forum's routeing experts, but travelling 'wrong way' on the section from Crewe to Manchester Piccadilly (via Wilmslow and then Manchester Airport) seems like a circuitous route if you're actually heading back to London.

 

[rocrat]

One for the forum's routeing experts, but travelling 'wrong way' on the section from Crewe to Manchester Piccadilly (via Wilmslow and then Manchester Airport) seems like a circuitous route if you're actually heading back to London.

Definitely agree that it *appears* circuitous, but I don't *think* it involves any doubling back (excluding reversals). Happy to be corrected, but intrigued as to technical validity, particularly for the CRE-MAN leg!

 

[Watershed]

Definitely agree that it *appears* circuitous, but I don't *think* it involves any doubling back (excluding reversals). Happy to be corrected, but intrigued as to technical validity, particularly for the CRE-MAN leg!

It's perfectly valid. You're tracing a mapped route that doesn't involve passing through any station more than once.

 

[rocrat]

It's perfectly valid. You're tracing a mapped route that doesn't involve passing through any station more than once.

Thank you! Looks like I've some emails to write to obtain my £3.30 back then...