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Northern Complimentary Return Tickets

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Apologies if this has been asked before but I have a Northern Complimentary return ticket , when I fill in my origin and destination do I have to do that journey only or can I break my journey as many times as I like at various stations in between the origin and destination as normal return would permit

Many thanks for any help much appreciated
 
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Yes, break of journey is permitted at any intermediate station.
 

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Just remember to fill in your return date on your day out and you can break that journey as much as you want.
 

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Just remember to fill in your return date on your day out and you can break that journey as much as you want.
You DO NOT have to fill in the return date on these tickets. The last one I used had 1 year and 5 months between outward and return.
 

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You DO NOT have to fill in the return date on these tickets. The last one I used had 1 year and 5 months between outward and return.

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I could be reading the T & C wrong but.
.3 mentions (" within date and stations"). I read that as both dates should be filled in.
.5 is a bit ambitious in that it only mentions "the date of travel".
.6 is the one that could be used for misuse of not having any date printed on the pass. (" or if it is used without a date being printed").

I would have thought that would have been very luck to have got away with that if a RPO had seen your pass. As by the sounds of it you had not filled in your return date.
 

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I could be reading the T & C wrong but.
.3 mentions (" within date and stations"). I read that as both dates should be filled in.
.5 is a bit ambitious in that it only mentions "the date of travel".
.6 is the one that could be used for misuse of not having any date printed on the pass. (" or if it is used without a date being printed").

I would have thought that would have been very luck to have got away with that if a RPO had seen your pass. As by the sounds of it you had not filled in your return date.
Nowhere does it say you must fill out the return date before making your outward journey. It's as simple as that.

If you made either leg without dating the relevant box, then yes of course you'd be in trouble. But not for making the outward journey without dating the return.
 

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Nowhere does it say you must fill out the return date before making your outward journey. It's as simple as that.

If you made either leg without dating the relevant box, then yes of course you'd be in trouble. But not for making the outward journey without dating the return.
Agreed.

I used a few of these and never been asked to fill in the return half. As I say above there is no limit to the time between outward and return and nor is there a time restriction which is particularly handy.
 

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Thanks for all your help it’s much appreciated I have 2 and me and my mate are doing a pub crawl travelling from Preston and going todmorden , hebden bridge , Sowerby Bridge and Halifax and returning the same day
 

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What I was going on was what is on the back and one of my experiences when the guard insisted that I fill in the return date (but this was just after they had been introduced).
 
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