Season ticket - adding to the journey with an extra ticket - help needed.

[whole diary]

[Brucey]

Doubling back is permitted as part of the shortest route.  A route within 3 miles of the shortest route is also considered to be the shortest route.

Give it a go yourself.  Enter Weston to Bedminster, via Temple Meads into NRE^▸ (National Rail Enquiries) and it'll tell you to buy a Weston to Bedminster single.

[TerminalJunkie]

I wouldn't necessarily accept what any of the websites chuck out (except if I was using it to argue with staff for something in my favour  )

Is Bedminster part of the Bristol Group? You are allowed to double back within a Group, in which case it would be nothing to do with the three mile rule.

[Trowres]

Doubling back is permitted as part of the shortest route.  A route within 3 miles of the shortest route is also considered to be the shortest route.

Give it a go yourself.  Enter Weston to Bedminster, via Temple Meads into NRE^▸ (National Rail Enquiries) and it'll tell you to buy a Weston to Bedminster single.

If only it was so simple 
For the 06:00 ex-WSM this works, with an SDS of ^6.10
For the 07:08, 07:37, 08:41, the NRE OJP^▸ (Online Journey Planner) tells you that two tickets are required (total ^8.00)
For the 09:45 onwards, it's back to one ticket, the CDS^▸ (Off Peak Day Single [ticket type] (formerly 'Cheap Day')) at ^6.00
...Until 15:10, when it is two tickets again (^ 7.80)
....and a few more glitches until the 06:01 (Saturday) which is 2 tickets...
Why?

[JayMac]

I wouldn't necessarily accept what any of the websites chuck out (except if I was using it to argue with staff for something in my favour  )

Is Bedminster part of the Bristol Group? You are allowed to double back within a Group, in which case it would be nothing to do with the three mile rule.

If NRE^▸ (National Rail Enquiries) says its allowed, then its allowed. Definitive source etc.....

[Southern Stag]

Is Bedminster part of the Bristol Group? You are allowed to double back within a Group, in which case it would be nothing to do with the three mile rule.

That's only where the group is not your origin or destination though. Bedminster isn't part of Bristol Group anyway, it's only stations Bristol Temple Meads to Bristol Parkway inclusive which are. So a journey from Bath Spa to Taunton would you to take a detour Bristol Temple Meads-Bristol Parkway-Bristol Temple Meads but you couldn't travel Bath Spa-Bristol Temple Meads-Bristol Parkway-Lawrence Hill.

[JaminBob]

Thanks all.

I saw this guy again last week, which was the next time I had to go into BRI^» (Bristol Temple Meads - next trains). He remembered me and had obviously been put right by someone. Said that it was only 'if i did it a lot it looked iffy' or something like that. A, if i did it often I'd buy a ticket to BRI, and B, if its legal its legal surely?

The whole buying a season to Bedminster and ^breaking journey^ at BRI seems like its taking the mickey a little, wouldn't do it often, but... You really think it would work?