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Old August 16th 08, 10:32 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
Charles Ellson Charles Ellson is offline
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Default NR Tickets from LU touchscreen Ticket machines

On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 02:35:40 -0700 (PDT), Rupert Candy
wrote:

On Aug 16, 10:10*am, wrote:
I have noticed that you can purchase a ticket from my local LU station
in Zone 5 to Peterborough, a single is about £19.?? quid.

What type of ticket is this? Is it printed on a NR ticket or an LU
ticket?


I once bought a London Terminals-Sevenoaks single from the LU machine
at London Bridge, when there were massive queues at all the machines
upstairs. It's printed on standard LU stock (though it says NOT
UNDERGROUND or something similar). The gripper passed it without a
second glance, and it worked the ticket barriers at both ends. I
presume it's a hangover from NSE days (when the Multifare machines
with the hundreds of buttons had a couple of columns, coloured purple
IIRC, with certain popular NSE destinations on them).

ISTR LU fare lists showing various "exotic" destinations long before
NSE was invented.