Permitted Routes

I've never been able to make sense of the Routeing Guide, so if anyone
can help, I'd be grateful.

I have to travel from Reigate to Hove tomorrow morning. The National
Rail web site comes up with several routes, but some look more
reasonable than others....

1. Reigate - Gatwick - Hove (bypassing Brighton): this is clearly the
shortest, and ought to be OK.

2. Reigate - Gatwick - Brighton - Hove: looks reasonable, but is it
permitted? Assuming that "reasonable" and "permitted" are synonymous
seems risky, but this one looks good to me - it'll be the quickest.
(It involves an eight-minute change at Gatwick, so it's not one that
the JP offers.)

3. Reigate - East Croydon - Hove: Looks absurd, since it requires
doubling back, but why would National Rail Enquiries come up with it
if it's not permitted?

Peter.

"Peter" <REPLACEWITHMYFORENAME@allblue.f9.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> I've never been able to make sense of the Routeing Guide, so if anyone
> can help, I'd be grateful.
>
> I have to travel from Reigate to Hove tomorrow morning. The National
> Rail web site comes up with several routes, but some look more
> reasonable than others....
>
> 1. Reigate - Gatwick - Hove (bypassing Brighton): this is clearly the
> shortest, and ought to be OK.
>
> 2. Reigate - Gatwick - Brighton - Hove: looks reasonable, but is it
> permitted? Assuming that "reasonable" and "permitted" are synonymous
> seems risky, but this one looks good to me - it'll be the quickest.
> (It involves an eight-minute change at Gatwick, so it's not one that
> the JP offers.)
>
> 3. Reigate - East Croydon - Hove: Looks absurd, since it requires
> doubling back, but why would National Rail Enquiries come up with it
> if it's not permitted?
>
> Peter.
>
I would go via Brighton and should present you with no problem at all.
Platform 5 Gatwick and probably Plat 1 or 2 at Brighton although the
occasional service leaves from Plat 3.

On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 18:28:37 +0100, "Peter Masson"
<peter.masson1@> wrote:

>The Journey Planner gives the quickest journeys, regardless of the Routeing
>Guide (though if you ask it for fares on a non-permitted route it won't give
>you any, and says you may need 2 tickets).

Bonkers!

>East Croydon is not permitted (doubling back via Purley).

Logical.


>Brighton is permitted - the Routeing Point is Brighton Group, and indeed, if
>your journey was to Brighton there would be nothing to stop you going via
>Hove.

Thank you.

Peter.

In the good old days Swindon station - the Junction not the town -consisted
of 2 large island platforms linked by a subway that also linked to the
booking office at street level.

There was also a bridge spanning the tracks between the platforms, but not
the tracks on the outer faces of the islands. There were no obvious
entrances at platform level, or from the ground floor rooms on the
platforms. I never saw any public access to this bridge [or the upper floors
of the station buildings] on ether side. The bridge was fully enclosed and
half glazed each side.

Anyone know its function? I spotted from the west end of platform 5 for a
good long time in the 60's and nobody knew what it was for.

Regards

Roger C