Advance fares FAQS - From the Manual (FRPP)
Q22. Can a passenger travel on any other service than the one on which they are reserved, without changing the booking?
A. the following principles apply. ...
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Once the journey has begun. If the passenger is delayed and the train company or its partners [are] at fault, which should be check by [staff] control office,
change to a train of the same company is allowed to get them to their destination with the least delay. This is irrespective of the combination of rail tickets held. Examples are:
Included: are passsengers on valid:
- Through domestic or international tickets. e.g. Brighton-Scarborough route TOC X & connections;
- Through[/U] rail and partner tickets for which there is a through bus, tube, ferry or metro fare, e.g. Zone U12-Leeds, Wisbeach coach-York, Ryde Pier-Hull, etc;
- Combination of rail only tickets, e.g. Rail season ticket Skipton-Leeds and Advance Leeds-Peterborough, or adjoining advance fares;
- Combination of rail and partner tickets, e.g. Brighton-Zone U12 plus advance London-Manchester, or e.g. Advance ticket Bristol-Paddington plus tube single ticket, plus advance ticket Kings Cross to Hull;
- All Zones Travelcards, PTE-products (where rail is included) plus advance fares, etc;
- Combination of Eurostar tickets into the UK and then either advance tickets from London terminals or "London Intnl CIV" or Lndon Eurostar CIV;
Not included for the avoidance of doubt, are:
- Non train company travel on separate tickets, e.g. tickets that begin on bus-only, tube-only, ferry-only or metro-only tickets. (this includes "PlusBus", which is a local day-rover bus ticket not compatible with a medium/long distance advance single ticket, so are kept as separate tickets), or;
- Tickets that cannot be read on-train e.g. smartcards (allowable where electronically checked, verified and advance ticket endorsed in travel centres).
Please note that there is no change to:
a) Any other rules e.g. trains stopping where tickets join together (NRCoC 19), nor;
b) The need to verify that a train has been delayed on route and ticket endorsed, nor;
c) Any other passenger entitlements as defined by the NRCoC or CIV conditions, nor;
d) General ATOC disruption guidance
e) [Staff] discretion in extreme circumstances. ....