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Old December 10th 03, 11:13 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Aidan Stanger Aidan Stanger is offline
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Default Magnetic stripe tickets

Roland Perry wrote:
Colin Rosenstiel writes
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


No, longer than an Edmondson, I'm sure. I have examples somewhere here.


On thinner card, too. Somewhere I've got one that was issued by a
pre-deployment demonstration system they installed at the Science
Museum. I think Clive might have one of those, too.


Sounds like the Crouzet tickets that are still used in Adelaide, except
that those only have a narrow magnetic strip on the back. They are
rather a bad design, as the magnetic strip is weak, and far too easily
accidentally eresed! Did the London tickets have that problem?