Hi Lexy boy but as other posters have said restriction 2S clearly states that is infact actually valid on the 07:17am
Restriction 2S states that it is
not valid on the 0717; the text quoted by
sonic2009 is from the general info which accompanies all SVR fares.
Code:
Restriction applies:
Monday to Friday only.
No travel restrictions on
other days.
OUTWARD and RETURN Journeys:
Valid on services which are
scheduled to depart at or
after 0754.
NOTE THAT ON THE FRIDAY BEFORE
BANK HOLIDAYS, AFTERNOON
RESTRICTIONS WILL NOT APPLY TO
OFF-PEAK TICKETS FOR TRAVEL
FROM/VIA/TO EUSTON, WATFORD
JUNCTION AND MILTON KEYNES
CENTRAL. NORMAL MORNING PEAK
RESTRICTIONS WILL APPLY.
This restriction is lifted all
day from Thursday 24th Dec
2009 until Friday 1st Jan 2010
inclusive.
It would only be valid due to the Virgin easement on Railcards which does not technically apply to your journey - depending on which version of the easement you read! It is my understanding that the most recent wording is as follows:
(
source):
“Holders of Off-Peak ticket types SVS/SVR which are discounted using a [Railcard] can travel on Virgin Train services at any time, provided that all travel is on Virgin Trains services only. (This easement is not permitted for travel between Milton Keynes Central and London Euston).”
However the earlier wording
would allow it for you journey (
source):
Customers holding an Off Peak ticket with a Railcard discount are allowed to travel at Peak times on Virgin Trains services, on most of our routes. We are able to offer this to our customers on routes where we are the owners of the fare flow.
This covers all of our services, with the exception of London Euston to Milton Keynes journeys. The fares between Milton Keynes and London Euston are set by a separate train operating company, London Midland trains, and therefore we cannot offer the same easement for journeys that are solely on this route.
My advice would be to email Virgin for confirmation if there's time before your journey, or make you booking and ask for reservations at a station - I would expect a Virgin managed station would be familiar with the easement so shouldn't have any trouble. If not then I would probably say it's OK as others have said that VT guards will be fine with it (I don't regularly use VT so I don't know).
The whole situation is a bit of a mess IMO; Virgin seem to like creating funny fares rules which only apply to them and then not documenting them properly.