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Marine themed smartcards
On 20/09/2011 18:51, Arthur Figgis wrote:
On 20/09/2011 10:36, bob wrote: On Sep 19, 10:52 pm, wrote: On 19/09/2011 18:05, Matthew Dickinson wrote: Merseytravel have followed the trend for marine-named smartcards by introducing the Walrus card http://www.walruscard.com/index.asp Cool. Are they going to have a Cod card or a Haddock card for Scotland, I wonder? I'm assuming Cardiff would have a Whale card. I wonder how they came up with the term Oystercard to begin with, however? I belief the official idea was some sort of association with containing pearls. Of course Hong Kong has the octopus card too. World is your Oyster? "Pearl" is Sydney. Pearl's a singer... -- Graeme Wall This account not read, substitute trains for rail. Railway Miscellany at www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail |