Re: Routeing guide again - Stalybridge - Doncaster.

Ianigsy wrote:

> On 24 Jul, 23:19, Chris  Tolley <cj...@supanet.com> wrote:
>> In the event, we asked for a cheap day return from SYB to DON, and then
>> once the tickets had been issued, we asked if they were valid via Leeds.
>> The answer was "Yes".
>>
>> We went out via ManP, and having got to Doncaster, we asked for times of
>> trains back to SYB, and the person in the office wrote out on a piece of
>> paper for us: Doncaster 1357 Leeds 1435 - 1510 Stalybridge 1545, which
>> is what we did. Well, we would have done, if it hadn't been for the 1357
>> being cancelled - we went on the local from Donny to Leeds half an our
>> earlier instead. On neither of the occasions our tickets were checked on
>> each leg of this journey was any query raised about them.
>
> I would guess that in the real world, most railway staff would see
> Leeds as the logical route because you're starting your journey
> heading in the "right" direction, i.e. east rather than west.

Well, that's certainly a part of my thinking. Another part goes along
the lines of: "I'm at X and I want to get to Z - where is the Y that I
need to change?" Only if I were in track-bashing mode would I start off
with "I'm at A and I have a ticket to Z..." ;-)

As for the strangeness of the route via Manchester, neither of those
legs of the journey included a ticket check. There was only the cursory
glance on the bridge while changing at MAN. Both legs were memorable for
oddities/problems, though. From SYB to MAN, the air con wasn't working
and 185 134 was like a sauna. From MAN to DON, not only were the tickets
not checked, but the guard announced that he was unable to issue tickets
and people should buy them at their first available opportunity after
leaving the train.

> It may be complicated by the fact that the shortest route
> (Huddersfield and Wakefield) doesn't carry a Sunday service so if you
> were making the same journey on a Sunday, Leeds would be the shorter
> route.

I hadn't realised that. Interesting.

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