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Michael Parry wrote:

In message , Paul Corfield
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I acknowledged this point but if you have any memory of the Tube prior
to zonal fares and I just about do then the old set up had arrays of
free standing single fare machine with huge signs above them saying
which stations for that fare.

Are there really no pictures of the old machines anywhere on the web?
A Google and a look at http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk didn't turn up any.

IIRC, they had the fare in huge print and the stations served by that
fare on the sloping glass top.

That's how I remember them, the fare was in red and the machine itself was
painted blue. Fare bands were in increments of 3d (old pence). IIRC only
singles were available, no returns.



The increments were whatever applied at the time, probably was 3d at the
time of decimalisation.

Penny increments show in the LT Museum's 1948 photo.

View at http://makeashorterlink.com/?N3F63287A

Vaguely remember seeing an odd machine somewhere that wasn't just an
ordinary single, may have been a child single.

Jim Brittin wrote:
In article ,
says...
In message
Michael Parry wrote:

In message , Paul
Corfield writes
I acknowledged this point but if you have any memory of the Tube
prior to zonal fares and I just about do then the old set up had
arrays of free standing single fare machine with huge signs
above them saying which stations for that fare.

Are there really no pictures of the old machines anywhere on the
web? A Google and a look at http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk didn't turn
up any.

IIRC, they had the fare in huge print and the stations served by
that fare on the sloping glass top.

That's how I remember them, the fare was in red and the machine
itself was painted blue. Fare bands were in increments of 3d (old
pence). IIRC only singles were available, no returns.

The increments were whatever applied at the time, probably was 3d
at the time of decimalisation.

Penny increments show in the LT Museum's 1948 photo.

View at http://makeashorterlink.com/?N3F63287A

IIRC there are some at the LT Museum Depot (Acton Town). The next Open
Day there is 26/27 February. Not sure of the Museum itself has any.
--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

In message , Jim Brittin
writes
The increments were whatever applied at the time, probably was 3d at
the time of decimalisation.

Penny increments show in the LT Museum's 1948 photo.

View at http://makeashorterlink.com/?N3F63287A

Vaguely remember seeing an odd machine somewhere that wasn't just an
ordinary single, may have been a child single.

Oh yes, those are the ones, thanks. The tickets were green cardboard
when I first used them but soon changed to yellow with a magnetic
coating on the back that would operate the new barriers.

--
Michael Parry
'The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret'
(Terry Pratchett, The Truth)

"Michael Parry" wrote in message
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Oh yes, those are the ones, thanks. The tickets were green cardboard
when I first used them but soon changed to yellow with a magnetic
coating on the back that would operate the new barriers.

AIUI the magnetic coating didn't contain any more information than 'This is
a ticket; gate, please open.'

Peter