When SWT introduced their 2-tier off peak pricing to travel away from London on weekend day trips, many Off Peak fares were re-labelled Super Off Peak and morning travel restrictions were introduced. Presumably this was to manage demand on crush loaded routes such as Farnham to Alton! Sorry, cynicism got the better of me there.
Anyway, some of the SWR Weekend Super Off Peak tickets for longer journeys have no time restrictions e.g. Farnborough to Weymouth. These carry restriction 8A, which states:-
Outward Travel
Break of journey is not permitted except to change trains at an intermediate station or to access station facilities.
I've never come across an outward break of journey restriction on SWR (SWT) before. As it happened, we did break our outward journey and there were no issues (I only found out about the restriction after the event).
Given that 8A has no other restrictions whatsoever, is this a case of the SWT pricing team having to allocate some kind of restriction to these new tickets and plumping for one that is inappropriate? Or an attempt to generate more revenue from the unwary?
The restriction used by Great Northern for similar tickets, FB, would be more appropriate IMO.
Anyway, some of the SWR Weekend Super Off Peak tickets for longer journeys have no time restrictions e.g. Farnborough to Weymouth. These carry restriction 8A, which states:-
Outward Travel
Break of journey is not permitted except to change trains at an intermediate station or to access station facilities.
I've never come across an outward break of journey restriction on SWR (SWT) before. As it happened, we did break our outward journey and there were no issues (I only found out about the restriction after the event).
Given that 8A has no other restrictions whatsoever, is this a case of the SWT pricing team having to allocate some kind of restriction to these new tickets and plumping for one that is inappropriate? Or an attempt to generate more revenue from the unwary?
The restriction used by Great Northern for similar tickets, FB, would be more appropriate IMO.