Re: Routeing guide again - Stalybridge - Doncaster.

On 24 Jul, 23:19, Chris  Tolley <cj...@supanet.com> wrote:
> Paul Rigg wrote:
> > There is an easement that allows  travel from Stalybridge3 to Stockport via
> > Manchester  , in view of the poor service on the direct route between these
> > points (flying Dentonian only).
>
> > So the mileage you should be comparing is
> > Stalybridge-Stockport-Sheffield-Doncaster, which will be less than the Leeds
> > route.
>
> > If some TPE trains stopped at Guide Bridge you could presumably go
> > Stalybridge-Guide Bridge-Romiley-Sheffield-Doncaster.
>
> AFAICS, there doesn't need to be an easement because Stalybridge -
> Manchester is mapped on both MR and GM, and Manchester - Donny via
> Sheffield is on PS.
>
> If I could go via Denton, I reckon it would be 63'11, which is indeed
> shorter than via leeds at 65'05 and via ManP which is 68'19.
>
> 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.
>
> --http://gallery120232.fotopic.net/p9633023.html
> (47 142 at Salisbury, 1985)

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.  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.
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