As I mentioned, some more changes have been published in the last few weeks.
Two weeks last Friday, the following changes were published:
Changes from 30 May 2019 (259) to 07 Jun 2019 (260).
Station Association changes:
Angel Road (AGR) is no longer associated with Cheshunt (CHN).
Angel Road (AGR) is no longer associated with Tottenham Hale (TOM).
There are no longer any references to Angel Road in the routeing guide.
Easement changes:
Removed:
700849 (Map) Due to engineering diversions of Cross Country services on Sunday 02 June 2019, this map easement will allow journeys via Newport (south Wales)
700850 (Doubleback) Due to engineering works on Sunday 02 June 2019, Cross Country services are diverted via Newport (South Wales). This doubleback easement will allow journeys to pass twice through Severn Tunnel junction.
Temporary easements which are no longer in date.
Added:
700860 (Routeing Point) Customers from Cumbernauld travelling Dunblane, Bridge of Allan and Gleneagles, may travel via Stirling. This routeing point easement overrides NFM64 fares checking and applies in both directions.
For some reason, NMF64 fares between Cumbernauld and Bridge of Allan or Dunblane are lower than Cumbernauld-Stirling ones.
There are no direct trains, so the shortest route means a change at Camelon. Web sites tend to offer a change in Falkirk instead, but perhaps they did something less useful before this easement was added.
A week last Friday, the following changes were published:
Changes from 07 Jun 2019 (260) to 14 Jun 2019 (261).
Permitted Route changes:
Birmingham Group (G02) to Chester (CTR) gain BJ+NJ lose RJ
This journey no longer has mapped routes via Nuneaton.
Birmingham Group (G02) to Huyton (HUY) gain BJ+NJ+BV lose BJ+CH BM+XV BP+NV BV
This journey no longer has mapped routes:
via Nuneaton; or
via Warrington.
It now has mapped routes which go via both the direct Rugeley-Stoke-on-Trent line and Liverpool.
Birmingham Group (G02) to Liverpool Group (G18) gain BJ+NJ+BV lose BP+NV
This journey no longer has mapped routes via Nuneaton.
It now has mapped routes via the the direct Rugeley-Stoke-on-Trent line.
Birmingham Group (G02) to Runcorn (RUN) gain BJ+NJ lose BP+NJ
Birmingham Group (G02) to Wrexham Group (G49) gain BJ+NJ lose BJ BP+NJ
These journeys no longer have mapped routes via Nuneaton.
They now have mapped routes via Stoke-on-Trent.
Birmingham Group (G02) to Warrington Group (G31) lose BM BS BS+NR
This journey no longer has mapped routes via Wigan or via the direct Crewe-Warrington line.
The remaining map combination ends with NR, which only includes mapped routes via Manchester and Birchwood. You can, of course, take a through train (if available for your route), or whatever is allowed by the shortest route rule.
Bolton (BON) to Tamworth (TAM) gain BS lose BM+WM NR+BM+WM NR+TM+WM TM+WM
This journey now has mapped routes:
via Wigan; and
ones which use the direct Lichfield-Tamworth line.
Chester (CTR) to Lichfield Trent Valley (LTV) lose BC+WM BJ+WM CH+BC+WM
Chester (CTR) to Stafford (STA) gain BJ BJ+MH lose NJ
Coventry (COV) to Runcorn (RUN) gain BI+BJ+NJ lose BI+BJ
Crewe (CRE) to Stafford (STA) gain MH
Lichfield Trent Valley (LTV) to Runcorn (RUN) lose WM+BJ
Llandudno Junction (LLJ) to Stafford (STA) gain BJ BJ+MH lose NJ
Nuneaton (NUN) to Runcorn (RUN) gain BP+BJ+NJ lose BP+BJ
Rugeley Trent Valley (RGL) to Runcorn (RUN) lose BP+BJ
Runcorn (RUN) to Tamworth (TAM) lose BJ+WM
Shotton (SHT) to Stafford (STA) gain BJ BJ+MH lose NJ
Tamworth (TAM) to Wrexham Group (G49) gain WM+NJ lose WM+BJ
These journeys now have mapped routes via Stoke-on-Trent.
Chester (CTR) to Nuneaton (NUN) gain RJ lose BC+BP BJ+BP CH+BC+BP JO+TM NJ
This journey no longer has mapped routes:
via Shrewsbury; or
via Warrington.
It now has mapped routes:
via Birmingham and Tamworth;
via Wolverhampton and Tamworth; and
ones via Stoke-on-Trent which don't go via Warrington.
Chester (CTR) to Rugby (RUG) lose JO+LC
Rugby (RUG) to Wrexham Group (G49) lose LC+JO
These journeys no longer have mapped routes via Helsby.
Chester (CTR) to Rugeley Trent Valley (RGL) gain JO+NJ lose BC+WM BJ+WM CH+BC+WM
Chester (CTR) to Tamworth (TAM) gain JO+NJ lose BC+WM BJ+WM CH+BC+WM
These journeys now have mapped routes:
via Stoke-on-Trent; and
via Runcorn.
Coventry (COV) to Huyton (HUY) gain NJ+NV SM+BJ+NJ+NV lose BI+BV BM+XV NV TM+XV
This journey no longer has mapped routes via Earlestown.
It now has mapped routes:
via Nuneaton and Birmingham;
via the direct Rugeley-Stoke-on-Trent line and Liverpool; and
via Nuneaton, Stoke-on-Trent and Liverpool.
Coventry (COV) to Liverpool Group (G18) gain NJ+NV SM+BJ+NJ+NV lose BI+BV BM+NO BM+NR NV TM+NO TM+NR
This journey no longer has mapped routes:
via Manchester; or
via Warrington.
It now has mapped routes:
via Nuneaton and Birmingham;
via Nuneaton, Stoke-on-Trent and either Chester or Runcorn; and
via the direct Rugeley-Stoke-on-Trent line and either Chester or Runcorn.
Coventry (COV) to Warrington Group (G31) lose BM TM
This journey no longer has mapped routes using the direct Crewe-Warrington route.
It now only has mapped routes via Birchwood.
Huyton (HUY) to Lichfield Trent Valley (LTV) gain NV+NJ lose BV CH+BJ+WM CH+NJ ME+WM NV XV+BM+WM XV+TM
This journey no longer has mapped routes:
via Birmingham;
via Earlestown; or
via Wolverhampton.
It now has mapped routes via Liverpool and the direct Stoke-Rugeley line.
Huyton (HUY) to Nuneaton (NUN) gain NV+NJ NV+RJ XV+LC+RJ lose BV+BP CH+BJ+BP CH+NJ ME+BP NV XV+BM XV+BM+BP
This journey no longer has mapped routes:
via Shrewsbury; or
via Wilmslow.
It now has mapped routes:
via Liverpool, Birmingham and Tamworth;
via Liverpool, Stoke-on-Trent and Tamworth;
via Liverpool, Wolverhampton and Tamworth; and
via Liverpool and the direct line between Stoke-on-Trent and Rugeley.
Huyton (HUY) to Rugby (RUG) lose ME+EB
Liverpool Group (G18) to Rugby (RUG) lose ME+EB
These journeys no longer have mapped routes via Shrewsbury.
Huyton (HUY) to Rugeley Trent Valley (RGL) gain NO+NC+TV NV+NC+TV lose CH+BJ CH+NJ ME+BP NV XV+TM
This journey no longer has mapped routes:
via Wilmslow; or
via Wolverhampton.
It now has mapped routes via Liverpool and Stoke-on-Trent.
Huyton (HUY) to Stafford (STA) gain KW+NC+NJ lose XV+BM
This journey no longer has mapped routes:
via Wilmslow; or
via Wolverhampton.
Huyton (HUY) to Tamworth (TAM) gain NO+NC+NJ NV+NJ lose BV CH+BJ+WM CH+NJ ME+WM NV XV+BM+WM XV+TM
This journey no longer has mapped routes:
via Birmingham;
via Wilmslow; or
via Wolverhampton.
It now has mapped routes via Liverpool and the direct line between Stoke-on-Trent and Rugeley.
Huyton (HUY) to Wolverhampton (WVH) gain KW+NC+NJ lose XV+TM
This journey now has mapped routes via both Hooton and Stoke-on-Trent.
Lichfield Trent Valley (LTV) to Liverpool Group (G18) gain NJ+NV lose BV NJ+CH NV TM+NO TM+NR WM+BJ+CH WM+BM+NO WM+BM+NR
Liverpool Group (G18) to Tamworth (TAM) gain NV+NJ lose BV CH+BJ+WM CH+NJ ME+WM NO+BM+WM NO+TM NR+BM+WM NR+TM NV
These journeys no longer have mapped routes:
via Birmingham;
via Manchester;
via Warrington; or
via Wolverhampton.
They now have mapped routes via the direct Rugeley-Stoke-on-Trent line which also go via Chester or Runcorn.
Lichfield Trent Valley (LTV) to Warrington Group (G31) gain NJ+NC lose TM
This journey no longer has mapped routes via Wilmslow.
Liverpool Group (G18) to Nuneaton (NUN) gain BV+TL lose BV+BP CH+BJ+BP CH+NJ ME+BP NO+BM NR+TM NV
This journey no longer has mapped routes:
via Manchester;
via Shrewsbury; or
via Warrington.
It now has mapped routes:
via Chester or Runcorn, as well as Birmingham and Tamworth;
via Chester or Runcorn, as well as Stoke-on-Trent and Tamworth; and
via Chester or Runcorn, as well as Wolverhampton and Tamworth.
Liverpool Group (G18) to Rugeley Trent Valley (RGL) gain NO+NC+NJ NR+NC+NJ NV+NJ lose CH+BJ CH+NJ NO+TM NR+TM NV
This journey no longer has mapped routes:
via Manchester;
via Wilmslow; or
via Wolverhampton.
It now has mapped routes via Chester or Runcorn and Stoke-on-Trent.
Liverpool Group (G18) to Stafford (STA) lose CV CV+MH
Rugeley Trent Valley (RGL) to Smethwick Group (G63) gain KN lose NJ
Rugeley Trent Valley (RGL) to Wolverhampton (WVH) gain ES lose NJ
No effect.
Nuneaton (NUN) to Warrington Group (G31) gain TV+NC lose TM
This journey no longer has mapped routes via Wilmslow which do not go through Birchwood.
Nuneaton (NUN) to Wrexham Group (G49) gain BP+BJ+NJ lose BP+BJ TM+JO
This journey now has mapped routes which go via Stoke-on-Trent which don't also go via Warrington.
Rugeley Trent Valley (RGL) to Warrington Group (G31) gain NJ+NC lose TM TM+NR
Tamworth (TAM) to Warrington Group (G31) gain NJ+NC lose TM TM+NR
These journeys no longer have mapped routes:
via Manchester; or
via Wilmslow.
Map changes:
NJ: Gain Crewe to/from Stoke-On-Trent
NJ: Gain Rugeley Trent Valley to/from Stoke-On-Trent
NJ: Gain Stoke-On-Trent to/from Stafford
This adds Stoke-on-Trent to the map, and so means there are some additional journey opportunities via Stoke-on-Trent. I don't think there are any which permit a route via Stoke-on-Trent where there wasn't already a similar route via (say) Crewe.
Easement changes:
Added:
700861 (Routeing Point) Customers travelling from Newton Le Willows to Manchester Airport may travel via Manchester Piccadilly. This routeing point easement overrides NFM64 fares checking and applies in both directions.
I'm not sure what the purpose of the easement is. While it's true that there's no NMF64 fares between Newton-le-Willows and Manchester Airport, the only map listed for Earlestown-Manchester is NO, which only includes the direct route via Patricroft. I don't know if this permits anything which wasn't already allowed by the shortest route rule.
Last Wednesday, the following easement was published:
Changes from 14 Jun 2019 (261) to 19 Jun 2019 (262).
Easement changes:
Added:
700862 (Routeing Point) Customers travelling from Lea Green to Manchester Airport on tickets priced (00485) AP TPE ONLY, may interchange at Manchester Victoria, Manchester Oxford Road or Manchester Piccadilly on their journey to the airport station. This routeing point easement overrides NFM64 fares checking will operate in both directions.
This is similar to easement 700861, although this one is restricted to Advance tickets for some reason. I don't know what effect this one has, either.