BothDo you mean the furthest round trip in one day, or the longest distance for which a day / season ticket is available?
You could do 1050 miles tomorrow (according to RailMiles):
0519 London Euston - change Preston - change Haymarket - Aberdeen arr 1354
Quick lunch break
1451 Aberdeen - change Edinburgh - London Kings Cross arr 2334
Plus 8 opportunities for the ticket inspector to chuck you off for attempting to use a bus ticket on a train!Or you could do 4 round trips from London Euston to Stoke on Trent, totalling 1160 miles. The turnarounds at Stoke would be tight though.
Depart Euston 0603, 1007, 1407, 1807
Depart Stoke 0752, 1153, 1553, 1952.
A Stagecoach north west day ticket can see you all the way from Chester to Newcastle, changing at Liverpool, Preston, Lancaster, Keswick and Carlisle.
Just had a look and that's £10.90, very good value IMHO, been a long time since I sold an explorer and I am sure they were close to 8 quid then.Explorer Northeast ticket valid between Scarborough and Berwick.
Or you've got Scotland East offering Glasgow or Edinburgh to Aberdeen on their day ticketsStagecoach North Scotland offer the ‘Bluebird Explorer’ ticket that allows travel from Inverness all the way down to Dundee.
You can’t use the Bluebird Explorer on those services. Only the X7 from Aberdeen to DundeeOr you've got Scotland East offering Glasgow or Edinburgh to Aberdeen
King's Lynn to Saffron Walden used to be possible on a Stagecoach Dayrider+ until recently.
For just over £6 and travelling as follows:
505 to Spalding
37 to Peterborough
Busway service B to Cambridge
7 to Saffron Walden.
Myself and a friend once managed to work out a way of getting from Cambridge to Newport via Stagecoach services, but we could never find for definite if the Gold rider ticket was valid all the way there!
I'm aware that I'd clicked to post the reply before I'd finished writing the sentence, but even with the stub I'd left I thought it was apparent that I was talking about Stagecoach East Scotland's range of tickets rather than North Scotland. I've edited my post to make it explicitYou can’t use the Bluebird Explorer on those services. Only the X7 from Aberdeen to Dundee
I used Yorkshire's Explorer ticket a few months ago for a daft day out from Leeds, down to Nottingham as you suggest then returned via Worksop, Doncaster and Barnsley! Cheap day outLeeds - Barnsley - Sheffield - Chesterfield - Nottingham is possible on Stagecoach explorer ticket.
Glasgow - Dundee - Aberdeen on an EScot dayrider
Salisbury to Weston-Super-Mare on a First WoE day ticket , using D1 to Bath , X39 to Bristol , and then the X1 to Weston
Similarly Chippenham to Weston using an Avonrider - using X31 to Bath , X39 to Bristol and then the X1 to Weston
Just had a look and that's £10.90, very good value IMHO, been a long time since I sold an explorer and I am sure they were close to 8 quid then.