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I am attending a meeting in Devon on Saturday and am considering coming down on Friday and using a Devon Day Ranger ticket on that day, for travel from Tiverton Parkway onwards into Devon.

As far as I can see on the National Rail site, the ticket is valid for travel during the weekday morning peak, i.e. before 9am. Can someone confirm that is the case?

Also, can the ticket be bought on board a train? If so, would that include Cross Country services using Tiverton Parkway, or would I need to buy the ticket in advance elsewhere?

Thanks.

The Devon Day Ranger now has a B3 restriction - not valid between 0429 and 0900.

Therefore the train you intend to use it on must depart Tiverton at or after 0900.

You must be in possession of a ticket or series of tickets for the entirety of your journey before you depart your origin station if that station is part of the penalty fare scheme.  If that is not possible, you must be in posession of any extra ticket/s before the validity of any held tickets expires.

You'll be very hard pressed to buy a ticket onboard a Crosscountry train; very, very few XC train managers bother with revenue duties.

And don't forget, if using a combination of tickets where one of them is a season/period/ranger or rover, the train does NOT have to stop at the splitting station.

Many thanks.

The National Rail website page doesn't show that restriction. Is it new, or has it been missed off the page? (which does seem rather spartan, so wouldn't be surprising).

I did wonder about the splitting station bit when making a journey that we split at Didcot recently, as I thought I had read that here, but decided it felt safer to keep to trains which did stop there.

Yes, there's a whole section titled "Details" that's present in the others but missing here. Presumably this is a failing of GWR's (I guess) information management within whatever mysterious and complicated process puts these pages together. Rovers & Rangers are now shown in BR Fares, which is an easier place to find the information, and evidently more reliable.

I have always found the site to be reliable as regards restrictions applicable to Rovers and Rangers.

http://www.railrover.org/pages/devon-day-ranger.html

I see that the fares on the National Rail website haven't been updated either.

On split ticketing at Tiverton Parkway, and the point about the train not having to stop at that station. What happens with, for example, the train that leaves Taunton at 08.57 and arrives at Exeter St Davids at 09.23. It doesn't stop at Tiverton Parkway, but would obviously be passing through after 09.00, but would it be counted as a valid service to use?

In that case, I think you'd need to book a ticket to EXD & then use the ranger ticket onwards from there.

Very happy to be proved wrong though.