National Routeing Guide - Issues of Value To The Traveller

Issues of Value To The Traveller

"Ticketing arrangements on the UK's railways are notoriously arcane, but you can use the rules to get cheaper fares."

The routeing guide makes possible some of the recently publicised ticketing anomalies in the UK rail network such as saving money by purchasing tickets for long journeys as several discrete journeys instead, for example As such it is a powerful tool in the arsenal of the knowing consumer, given the current complexity of ticket choice on the UK rail network. It is also important for travellers who contemplate a different route when faced with disruption; under these circumstances staff may stamp or sign a ticket as valid via a different route.

When it was introduced, its primary aim was to "provide passengers with certainty about what travel their ticket buys them ", after many years of ambiguity over 'reasonable' journeys, therefore passengers are now quite within their rights to use it as a point of reference, since it has been written and approved by the transport companies.