What are Circular Journey tickets?
Circular Journey tickets may be purchased for any custom route starting at one station and going through a number of others before ending at the starting point. Applications have to be submitted in advance at a railway station and may take a few days to process. Specific routes have to be specified between any consecutive pair of stations on the route you intend to take, in case there are multiple possible routes. The zonal timetables list the ‘standard’ circular journeys, which can be booked directly without much trouble. However, for any custom route, the route first has to be approved by the Commercial Manager at the booking station. Check the zonal timetables for details on restrictions and time constraints. Stations cannot be visited twice on the same journey, which makes this less useful if one plans to use one town as a base for touring. (There is also an odd rule about the distance one way to the farthest station from the station of origination being at least 15% more than the
