Needless pedantry, given that one is not permitted to make any journey on the railways without being in possession of a ticket for that journey.
I'm so disappointed that I've got to explain this. I thought I was dealing with a seasoned member and didn't need to point this out but obviously that was my own naivety. Easements typically refer to one of two main groups of people who can do something that they might not otherwise have been able to. Either those making journeys 'to or via' a place, irrespective of their tickets, or those with particular tickets. The distinction is very important when it refers to specific things, e.g. if it refers only to tickets routed 'Any Permitted' from X to Y, or (as in this case) it refers to journeys being made from a particular place or through particular places. The easement doesn't seek to loosen the way in which a ticket can be used, it just tells a certain group of travellers which nobody has been able to thus far satisfactorily define. Before you bring still another flagrant charge of pedantry, you can argue if the the net effects of this are actually any different until the cows come home, I don't care; it is a 'clear' distinction that ATOC have chosen to make in the writing of the easements.
...the words specifically state from Huddersfield, Deighton and Mirfield...
Oh dear, making things up again, are we?
Unless you're trying to argue Mirfield is beyond Leeds?
I have no idea, because the easement does not say! If you can go from Huddersfield to Mirfield via Halifax, it's unclear if this should be via Leeds or not. You're very good at telling me that you categorically know what it means though so maybe we should just go with that? :roll:
You know fine well what it means.
Based on your conduct in this thread, I am forced to conclude that you most certainly do not. You accuse me of all sorts of things when I am merely going off what is actually written, and say that your own version of what your brain fills in the gaps left by the illiterate writer of this sentence are somehow definitive and because my brain has filled the gaps differently (or more accurately gives me several options for how they might be filled) none of my views are valid while only your singular one is? "I am right and you are wrong." Why?" "Because." Why would anyone accept that?
You and Starmill can now sleep soundly in your beds knowing that ATOC are reading this website and have changed the semicolon to a comma. I trust that this means you are suddenly now able to fully understand what is written.
Hate to repeat myself but the semicolon could have assisted with disambiguation had it just been put in the right place. Anyway, there is
no way someone would be brain-dead enough spend their time trawling through this thread, see that the easement is garbage and has all sorts of problems with just the wrong words, syntax and ambiguities, but still decide to go and change it just on the basis of that semicolon becoming a comma. ATOC won't have people that stupid working for them.
Tickets from Deighton and Mirfield to Leeds are cheaper than from Sowerby Bridge, and the purpose of the easement is to prevent people buying those tickets and using them from Sowerby Bridge.
This is not likely. There are much more effective ways than the use of an easement to do that. There are abundant solutions, the best of which is to use a more sensible fares structure, like oh I don't know - zones?