Tonbridge - Hastings using a ticket to Bexhill

[leshuttle]

Is it permitted to do a break of journey or finish and start a journey at Hastings with an off-peak Tonbridge-Bexhill return?

 

[Watershed]

Yes, it's about 1.5 miles longer than the shortest route (which would be to change at St Leonard's Warrior Square), so within 3 miles of the shortest route and hence permitted.

You should be able to get an itinerary via Hastings on any journey planner, in case you want any 'backup'.

Have you had issues entering or exiting the gate line at Hastings with that ticket?

 

[alistairlees]

At St Leonards Warrior Square, but not at Hastings, I would have thought would be hassle-free. At Hastings the barrier staff might not let you through. The barrier is almost always staffed.

 

[JonathanH]

Hastings and St Leonards Warrior Square are both in 'Hastings Group' for routeing purposes in any case so a double back should be permitted.

 

[Watershed]

Hastings and St Leonards Warrior Square are both in 'Hastings Group' for routeing purposes in any case so a double back should be permitted.

Doubling back within a Routeing Point Group is only permitted for interchange purposes (e.g. where not all trains call at all stations in the group).

But there is no need to rely on this 'permission' to travel via Hastings, it is permitted by the "shortest + 3 miles" rule. And ultimately a journey planner itinerary.

 

[leshuttle]

Doubling back within a Routeing Point Group is only permitted for interchange purposes (e.g. where not all trains call at all stations in the group).

But there is no need to rely on this 'permission' to travel via Hastings, it is permitted by the "shortest + 3 miles" rule. And ultimately a journey planner itinerary.

Thanks thought so, I've got the itinerary showing via Hastings and this now - anticipating barrier staff might not let me through.

 

[Watershed]

Thanks thought so, I've got the itinerary showing via Hastings and this now - anticipating barrier staff might not let me through.

Not letting you through at all is wrong no matter what.

Even if you were going via a non-permitted route, you are simply liable to pay the difference to the cheapest valid fare. In your case, if the double-back weren't permitted, that would probably be the cost of a Warrior Square-Hastings return.