On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 15:12:34 +0000 (UTC), Jim Brittin
wrote:

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.

As I used to work for someone who was involved with this back in the 60s
that all sounds correct to me except for the 1979 reference to oxide
Edmondson tickets. That seems very very late given that credit card
sized tickets for UTS were introduced in something like 1984/5 with
gates at Regents Park in 1987. I'd be surprised that a ticketing
development like that would be introduced when a brand new alternative
was under development.
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