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Jim Brittin · December 5th 03, 03:12 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
says...
Martin Rich wrote:

Again as mentioned elsewhere in the thread, the whole of the back of
the ticket was a magnetic surface. However these tickets were much
smaller than the current tube tickets.

Same size as a 'proper' Edmondson ticket IIRC

Oxide-backed rapidprinter tickets for single and return journeys normally
only showed day and month, the earliest I have with a year showing is
dated November 1968. There were certainly weekly season tickets of this
type issued in 1970. From memory I think that Hammersmith was used
experimentally for oxide tickets prior to the opening of the Victoria
Line, and Stamford Brook and Turnham Green for non-oxide tickets showing
barcodes. AFAIK oxide Edmondsons didn't appear until 1979.