"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 21:24:43 on Tue, 15 Oct 2019,
tim... remarked:

How did one pay for the journey in 1981

almost certainly cash

Coins.

notes if you paid at the "ubiquitous" ticket office

and what cind of ticket did
you get? Magnetic stripe?

Unfortunately my collection doesn't go back that far

but definitely mag stripe

Yes. Introduced for the Victoria Line I think.

the question is would that have been a credit card sized ticket or did
they still have Edmondson sized "Yellow" tickets then?

They were yellow, but somewhat bigger footprint

they weren't much bigger, and they were thinner

(and none of the technology of) Edmondson.

hence the reason that I said "Edmondson sized "

A later incarnation of LT tickets were credit card sized but with square
corners

And certainly not orange, IIRC red.

tim