Routeing Advice - Exeter to Cambridge return

[Wolvercoter]

Can anyone please help me with a bit of routeing advice?

I plan to purchase a Exeter St Davids to Cambridge Super Off-Peak Return. I'd like to do the West Anglia route to Cambridge as I haven't been along that line for ages. The return journey will be broken with a family rendezvous at Kew Gardens. Is the following permitted?

Plan for outward journey:
Exeter St D > Paddington > Liverpool St > Cambridge via Bishops Stortford

Plan for return journey:
Cambridge > Hackney Downs > Hackney Central > Kew Gardens > Richmond > Reading via Bracknell > Exeter St D.

Thanks muchly!

 

[robbeech]

Didn't ought to be anything wrong with that. Are you specifically wanting to take that route on the return or is the main aim to break your journey at Kew Gardens? A change at Highbury and Islington would give you a faster journey.

 

[Paul Kelly]

It's not a permitted route for the return journey as the only mapped route from Cambridge to Exeter is LONDON, yet you are (technically!) avoiding London. I suppose there must be quite a few similar examples too; it's quite silly that it's not permitted.

 

[robbeech]

I can get a range of journey planners to give me it as an option though making it valid on that count, but i agree about the maps (now i have looked).

 

[Wolvercoter]

It's not a permitted route for the return journey as the only mapped route from Cambridge to Exeter is LONDON, yet you are (technically!) avoiding London. I suppose there must be quite a few similar examples too; it's quite silly that it's not permitted.

I can get a range of journey planners to give me it as an option though making it valid on that count, but i agree about the maps (now i have looked).

Thanks for the advice. We are planning this route to avoid central London but also wanting to see family for a day out at Kew.

I think I will just use my Oyster Card from Hackney Central to Kew Gardens bit and pick up train from Richmond later in the day.

Thanks again.