hairyhandedfool
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.... Leaving the station (except to get a train from another station and/or under instruction from rail staff and/or if you cannot complete your journey that day) is breaking your journey. So saying you are not allowed to break your journey except to change trains does appear to allow people to leave station premises while changing trains (e.g. some people may use this opportunity for a smoke e.g. Butts )....
So, if I have a connecting train at Doncaster, I can go to Sainsburys in Doncaster because I am changing trains at Doncaster Station? You get that from "Customers may not start, break and resume, or end their journey at any intermediate station except to change to/ from connecting trains as shown on the ticket(s) or other valid travel itinerary"?
....However I think that if someone said they wanted to get an earlier train specifically go to shopping, that's not permitted. But if they happened to have a long connection time and wanted to do some shopping while they're there, that does appear to be permitted....
Oh this gets better, so if my connection is 55 minutes at Doncaster, I can go shopping, but if it is 20 minutes I can't? Or perhaps 55 minutes isn't a sufficiently long connection and I need to tell the train planner I want three hours in Doncaster?
Is that not contradicted by.....
.... Leaving the station (except to get a train from another station and/or under instruction from rail staff and/or if you cannot complete your journey that day) is breaking your journey....
So unless the 'shopping' happens to be on station or railway premises, or trains now depart from Sainsburys, I don't know how you can come to that conclusion.
Of course it's all open to interpretation....
Really? I mean, really really?