Some changes were published in the routeing guide on Wednesday.
Changes from 13 May 2022 (385) to 18 May 2022 (386).
Easement changes:
Added:
700993 (Doubleback) Customers travelling to Chandlers Ford or Romsey on journeys that travel via Winchester may not doubleback between Eastleigh and Southampton Airport Parkway. This circuitous route easement applies in both directions.
This is a negative double back easement, although the routeing guide states that those are always positive. nre.co.uk may have implemented it as a circuitous route one instead, as the site appears to block some routes because of it which don't involve a double back. Other web sites may have implemented it in a different way.
The double back via Southampton Airport Parkway remains useful, even if it needs different tickets, as it makes a return journey between Chandler's Ford and London around 45 minutes shorter.
700994 (Map) To mitigate early morning service changes between 30 May 2022 and 03 June 2022. This map easement will allow journeys from or via Swindon to Bath or Bristol to travel via Westbury. This map easement applies in both directions.
I'm not sure what need this easement is mean to address, as the service seems to be fairly normal during that week; certainly compared with the one before it.
I searched for a few journeys on nre.co.uk, but couldn't find a Bath-Swindon journey via Westbury which it said was valid. The text makes things pretty clear, though.
Route changes:
Changed (added sections in red, removed ones in green):
VIA UNDERGRD/DLR (00998) (368 records)
must not go via Acton Main Line (AML), Burnham (BNM), Brentwood (BRE), Chadwell Heath (CTH), Ealing Broadway (EAL), Forest Gate (FOG), Gidea Park (GDP), Goodmayes (GMY), Heathrow Term 4 (HAF), Hanwell (HAN), Hayes & Harlington (HAY), Harold Wood (HRO), Heathrow Term 5 (HWV), Heathrow Term123 (HXX), Ilford (IFD), Iver (IVR), Langley (LNY), Maidenhead (MAI), Manor Park (MNP), Maryland (MYL), Reading (RDG), Romford (RMF), Slough (SLO), Shenfield (SNF), Southall (STL), Seven Kings (SVK), Taplow (TAP), Twyford (TWY), West Drayton (WDT) or West Ealing (WEA)
may only use Grand Central (GC), Gatwick Express (GX), Heathrow Express (HX), Island Line (IL), Lumo (LD), London Overground (LO), Merseyrail (ME), Northern (NT), Transpennine Express (TP), TfL Rail (XR) and Crosscountry (XC) trains.
must include train or tube
"via Underground/DLR" tickets are available as singles and returns for a few journeys within the London zones. This change means they can be used more widely, but not usually on the TfL Rail lines to Heathrow, Reading or Shenfield.
Some more changes were published yesterday.
Changes from 18 May 2022 (386) to 20 May 2022 (387).
Easement changes:
Added:
700995 (Fare route) During engineering works over the weekends of the 16/17 and 23/24 July 2022, customers travelling from Ledbury, Colwall, Great Malvern, Malvern Link, Worcester Foregate Street, Worcester Shrub Hill and Worcestershire Parkway to Didcot and beyond. With tickets priced on routes (00799) LONDON EVESHAM, (00805) VIA EVESHAM and (00433) AP EVESHAM, may travel on trains via Stroud or Cam & Dursley. This fare route easement applies in both directions.
There are buses between Charlbury and Moreton-in-Marsh then. The data for the easement is more restrictive than the text, as it does not show the easement as applying to journeys via Oxford (as with a Worcester-Oxford Parkway ticket), or to ones which don't go via Swindon (such as Worcester-Salisbury).
700996 (Map) During engineering works over the weekends of the 16/17 and 23/24 July 2022, customers travelling from Ledbury, Colwall, Great Malvern, Malvern Link, Worcester Foregate Street, Worcester Shrub Hill and Worcestershire Parkway to Didcot and beyond. With tickets priced on routes (00799) LONDON EVESHAM, (00805) VIA EVESHAM and (00433) AP EVESHAM. May travel on train services via Bristol Parkway and/or Swindon. This map easement applies in both directions
This covers the same dates as 700995, and adds a route from Worcester to Swindon via Bristol Parkway or Stroud for people with those tickets.
700997 (Local) Customers travelling from Cardenden, Lochgelly, Cowdenbeath, Dunfermline Queen Margaret, Dunfermline Town and Rosyth to Kirkcaldy, Glenrothes with Thornton, Markinch, Dalgetty Bay, Aberdour, Burntisland, Kinghorn and Ladybank may travel via Inverkeithing. This local easement applies in both directions.
The rail service in Fife has been reduced, with the service to Glenrothes with Thornton becoming an hourly train to Edinburgh via Dunfermline, with a few extras. This easement goes some way to compensate for this by making through tickets valid on a longer route via Inverkeithing.
I think Glenrothes with Thornton might be in the wrong list here, though. A ticket between there to Burntisland wouldn't benefit from this easement, and one to Dunfermline wouldn't need it.
700998 (Routeing Point) Customers travelling from Cardenden, Lochgelly, Cowdenbeath, Dunfermline Queen Margaret, Dunfermline Town and Rosyth to or via Ladybank may travel via Inverkeithing. This routeing point easement overrides NFM64 fares checking and applies in both directions.
This is similar to 700997, but covers longer distance journeys.
It doesn't cover Glenrothes with Thornton as it's part of a routeing point. This means that Routeing Point easements don't affect it, and also that it is unlikely to need an easement for this sort of journey anyway.
Route changes:
Changed (added sections in red, removed ones in green):
VIA CARMARTHEN (00648) (1520 records)
AP CARMARTHEN (07772) (357 records)
must go via Carmarthen (CMN)
must not go via Shrewsbury Craven Arms
must include bus
VIA ABERYSTWYTH (00649) (1499 records)
AP ABERYSTWYTH (07775) (327 records)
must go via Aberystwyth (AYW)
must not go via Shrewsbury Craven Arms
must include bus
TfW plan to extend these routes into the West Midlands next month, so this is intended to let the dedicated tickets be used on them. I couldn't find any when I checked, however, so they may still need to update the version of this table in the fare data.
VIA UNDERGRD/DLR (00998) (368 records)
must not go via Acton Main Line (AML), Burnham (BNM), Brentwood (BRE), Chadwell Heath (CTH), Ealing Broadway (EAL), Forest Gate (FOG), Gidea Park (GDP), Goodmayes (GMY), Heathrow Term 4 (HAF), Hanwell (HAN), Hayes & Harlington (HAY), Harold Wood (HRO), Heathrow Term 5 (HWV), Heathrow Term123 (HXX), Ilford (IFD), Iver (IVR), Langley (LNY), Maidenhead (MAI), Manor Park (MNP), Maryland (MYL), Reading (RDG), Romford (RMF), Slough (SLO), Shenfield (SNF), Southall (STL), Seven Kings (SVK), Taplow (TAP), Twyford (TWY), West Drayton (WDT) or West Ealing (WEA)
may only use Grand Central (GC), Gatwick Express (GX), Heathrow Express (HX), Island Line (IL), Lumo (LD), London Overground (LO), Merseyrail (ME), Northern (NT), Transpennine Express (TP), Crosscountry (XC) and TfL Rail (XR) trains.
must include train or tube
The only trains these can be used on in the London area are overseen by TfL.
Cross-London journey changes:
Cross-London transfers may now be made from Abbey Wood (ABW), Balham (BAL), Battersea Park (BAK), Brixton (BRX), Canada Water (ZCW), Greenwich (GNW), Lewisham (LEW), Limehouse (LHS), Queenstown Road (Battersea) (QRB), Shadwell (SDE), Stratford International (SFA), West Brompton (WBP), West Hampstead Thameslink (WHP), Whitechapel (ZLW) and Woolwich Arsenal (WWA).
I don't know what effect this table has.
There are separate "fixed link" tables in the timetable data which nre.co.uk seems to use to decide where you can transfer between railway stations. It shows a through ticket as being valid with changes at Greenford and South Ruislip, whereas neither is listed in this one.