An interesting journey to discover and to suggest.
How did you think of it?
Are you related to
RJ??
No. I don't think RJ likes easements that much, as there's no published guidance on which of the routes which satisfy an easement are actually valid. As both Bicester stations are associated with London, all you have are the easements and journeys not much longer than the minimum distance between the stations according to the timetable.
I knew easement 700243 would allow a journey from Bicester North to some other station to go via Banbury, and I only tried Acton Main Line as it was the closest other station to Paddington.
The reason why NRE immediately suggested a travelcard is, in my view, more interesting.
The only tickets between Bicester North and Acton Main Line are travelcards and ticket routed via Greenford. Greenford is only on a through route if you allow rail tickets to be used on the Underground there. NRE doesn't provide a route which does this, and neither does it suggest routes which double back along the Greenford branch. As such, the only things it can offer are travelcards.
I suspect that "easements" 42 and 30132 are to try and make journey planners behave in the intended manner, given Bicester North and Bicester Town have the same routeing points, and the walk between the two counts as zero miles for "shortest route" purposes.
Possibly. I can't help feeling that it would have been a lot easier to give each station the routeing points they actually want it to have.
I don't suppose the current Bicester-London fare structure will survive for long once Chiltern start running trains from Bicester Town to London anyway.