On Thu, 5 Dec 2013 18:46:13 +0100, "tim......"
wrote:


"Graham Nye" wrote in message
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On 05/12/2013 10:46, Graeme Wall wrote:
On 05/12/2013 10:16, Sam Wilson wrote:

I had to look up "passimeter"...

In LT/TfL's case they were electrically operated but the principal was
the same.

http://mikes.railhistory.railfan.net/r152.html has a description of
the system.

Thanks for the link.

"The "Rapid" machine ... prints, cuts and delivers the ticket, and can
issue four a second."

A trick that modern TVMs seem to have forgotten.

I'm sure that they can manage a 4 second delivery time


That would be four tickets in one second, not four seconds to deliver
one ticket. Which is about what the TVMs take in SWT territory. To
buy and print a return pair with a receipt takes a while. The
cheerful chappy at the window does much better. :-)
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