To make a break in a train journey?

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This morning i have to go to place X. But then i need to be in place Y about three hours later.

If i buy a ticket to X and a separate ticket for Y Then later on get a bus back from Y. Costing about £19.

If however i buy ticket from home to Y return will cost £8. I would have to make a break in the journey. Can i do that or would i need to buy separate tickets?

my understanding from years of train travel and clarifying with BR staff at various points is that you can't break a journey outwards but can return

you wont be able to go out at the ticket barrier, or at least you wont be able to come back, unless you ask nicely

It depends on the ticket. Some do allow you to break your journey. When dd goes to Birmingham hospital she has to change at New Street and often breaks her journey there for an hour or so to get lunch/go shopping in Grand Central. Other tickets, usually Advance ones don't allow it.

This is like asking whether you should butter one side of the toast or the other side.
How does anyone know what you should do with your train journey?

Wow, I’ve missed a trick. I’ve always assumed that if you wanted to break a journey, you would have to buy two tickets. Ie. A to b, and then b to c, and not a to c. Didn’t know some tickets allowed a break.

Shitatscarble -errr because they use the trains regularly and might have experience?

Now stuck in traffic and going now

*nowhere!!!

Interesting question - isn't this how split ticketing works - which would mean that you would have separate tickets for parts of your journey anyway. And even if you don't split your ticket, what happens at stations where all the facilities (toilets, cafe, shops) are outside the area where you show your ticket to get off the platform and which might be the station where you are due to change trains but have time to wait eg Manchester Piccadilly, Liverpool Lime Street, London Euston to name just 3 I have used.

No, split ticketing is different. You stay on the same train but it has to stop at a station where your ticket splits. You generally use split ticketing to take advatage of part of your journey being off peak rather than the whole journey classed as peak.