I'm planning a trip to Dumfries next month and was wanting advice on the return leg.
Normally when I do this trip, I return via:
17.58 Dumfries-Carlisle 18.35
18.47 Carlisle-Glasgow Central 20.01
20.41 Glasgow QS - Dundee 22.03
Since that's what the journey planners always give.
This time, I thought I'd try and be creative and see if there was a way of arriving home earlier. I could, just, make the 17.07 Dumfries-Carlisle, but that sends me via Haymarket and doesn't buy that much time. So I thought I'd try and piece something together myself and came up with this:
17.07 Dumfries-Carlisle 17.44
18.02 Carlisle-Glasgow Central 19.15
19.41 Glasgow QS-Dundee 20.59
I'm guessing that doesn't show up in the planners because there's "only" a 26-minute change between Glasgow stations, but that's not an issue.
Am I missing anything obvious? Clearly I can use a Dundee-Dumfries off-peak return to return via Carlisle and Glasgow, but usually I'd be armed with the itinerary to fight my case if it was queried (since it might seem unusual because AFAIK Glasgow-Dumfries isn't valid via Carlisle).
If I were to buy the ticket on the basis of the 17.58 (-22.03 at Dundee), but then use it with the alternative timings, would that itinerary be evidence enough to show that the ticket is valid via that route?
Normally when I do this trip, I return via:
17.58 Dumfries-Carlisle 18.35
18.47 Carlisle-Glasgow Central 20.01
20.41 Glasgow QS - Dundee 22.03
Since that's what the journey planners always give.
This time, I thought I'd try and be creative and see if there was a way of arriving home earlier. I could, just, make the 17.07 Dumfries-Carlisle, but that sends me via Haymarket and doesn't buy that much time. So I thought I'd try and piece something together myself and came up with this:
17.07 Dumfries-Carlisle 17.44
18.02 Carlisle-Glasgow Central 19.15
19.41 Glasgow QS-Dundee 20.59
I'm guessing that doesn't show up in the planners because there's "only" a 26-minute change between Glasgow stations, but that's not an issue.
Am I missing anything obvious? Clearly I can use a Dundee-Dumfries off-peak return to return via Carlisle and Glasgow, but usually I'd be armed with the itinerary to fight my case if it was queried (since it might seem unusual because AFAIK Glasgow-Dumfries isn't valid via Carlisle).
If I were to buy the ticket on the basis of the 17.58 (-22.03 at Dundee), but then use it with the alternative timings, would that itinerary be evidence enough to show that the ticket is valid via that route?
