PlusBus from suburban stations

[Old Yard Dog]

Ellesmere Port has at long, long last joined the PlusBus scheme but the add-on tickets are only available from Ellesmere Port and Overpool stations and not from Little Sutton.

This seems rather illogical as Little Sutton station is well within the area covered for bus travel - and rail fares to & from that station are identical to those from Ellesmere Port to nearly all destinations.

So in reality a passenger for Little Sutton could book a ticket to Ellesmere Port and get off early and catch a bus without breaking any of the conditions of carriage.

I haven't checked whether the add-ons can be bought from the ticket machines at Ellesmere Port (when the ticket office is closed) or Overpool (which is unstaffed).

Do other towns have similar restrictions against travel to non-central stations?

 

[Mojo]

Do other towns have similar restrictions against travel to non-central stations?

A better question might be "do other towns not have similar restrictions?"

There will inevitably be some smaller or other locations that do have them, but in my experience I don't think I've come across any: certainly none of the PTEs offer this (after the West Midlands ones were withdrawn last year), nor does Bristol. Even Ashford, which includes Wye station does not have one available. It tends to only be the major stations, like West Midlands has Solihull, Birmingham Stns, and a few more; Liverpool has Central, James Street, Lime Street, Moorfields and South Parkway.

Edit: found one! Brentwood and Shenfield are both available on the Brentwood & Shenfield scheme.

 

[Andrew99]

PlusBus tickets covering the Halton area are available from all four stations in the borough - i.e. Runcorn, Runcorn East, Widnes and Hough Green.

 

[TUC]

It would more sense for Plusbus tickets to be generally valid from a group of stations within a locality.