Unless I'm very much mistaken, it was Alistair Bell
), in message M%LZb.375019$na.566908@attbi_s04
who said:

Those I know as "Visitor Travelcard". However, I seem to recall that
the Travelcard scheme was indeed called "Capitalcard" when first
introduced more than 20 years ago.

And indeed, until the late eighties, there were indeed two products:
one called "Travelcard" that didn't give access to BR (i.e. what we'd
now call an "LT Card") and one called "Capitalcard" that did. The two
were merged under the Travelcard brand somewhere around 1989.

Methinks somebody is operating out of a really old London guidebook...


It's all good nostalgia though.

I remember getting the occasional capitalcard as a child in the 1980s - it
were really exciting back then, like drinking Quatro or eating a King Cone.

I often stay awake wondering who ate the last ever King Cone.

BTN