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12:40:56 on Thu, 29 Sep 2011, Francis Davey remarked:
An "Any Permitted" one would, versus a "Not London". The former is about
2 more expensive.

Excellent. If that is right, then the person in the ticket was quite
wrong and needlessly rude to me (not that being rude is ever needful
of course).

See my reply to Paul, but it's very confusing I agree. The price
differential has increased a little as well - the "Not London" offpeak
day returns via Hitchin are £20 (but aren't interavailable with the via
Tottenham Hale route, which is what the extra £4.50 is in effect paying
for). Another way of looking at it is to say the £24.50 ticket has the
bonus that you can return via Cambridge and Hitchin as well as the more
direct route.

I apologise for lack of data. I am likely to do this journey
occasionally. I would like to be able to catch the first train back at
Shelford and so it would be useful to be able to go either via
Cambridge or via Tottenham Hale (and then catch the underground -
which I can pay for with my Oyster). Hence the desire for an option.

Yes, I'm assuming you've lost interest in the U23 tickets, and will use
Oyster for the tube. The offpeak Day Return seems to have been deleted,
and the Anytime day return is now £30.90 to Shelford but a whopping £36
to Cambridge, so it fails the fares rule. The more expensive again
Offpeak period return also fails the fares rule (but only by 40p this
time).

All journeys will be single day. This one was off-peak, but that won't
always be true.

The price for Anytime "Any Permitted" tickets from Finsbury Park is
£33.70 for both Cambridge and Shelford (which we didn't necessarily
expect given the recent parting of the ways of the U23 tickets) so that
means the same interavailability logic applies.
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Roland Perry