Hello everybody,
do you know how much was a ticket for the London underground in the
early '60s?

I found that a bus ticket for one stop was one and a half penny, and a
three-pence for about three or four stops in suburbs such as Edgware
or Stanmore. Is it right?

Any help appreciated,
thanks,
Filippo

On Jun 9, 9:33*am, nessuno2001 wrote:
Hello everybody,
do you know how much was a ticket for the London underground in the
early '60s?

I found that a bus ticket for one stop was one and a half penny, and a
three-pence for about three or four stops in suburbs such as Edgware
or Stanmore. Is it right?

When I started work on Regent St in 1969 the Waterloo to Piccadilly
Circus fare was 3d. That would be just over 1p in currency or
USD0.02.

It cost twice as much to go from Waterloo to Oxford Circus, i.e. 6d of
2.5 new pence. That would be USD0.05 nowadays.

Soon after I started work there was a fare increase that doubled the
Waterloo to Piccadilly cost.

Needless to say that I find the present day London fare to be
extortionate.

On Jun 9, 8:50 pm, 1506 wrote:
On Jun 9, 9:33 am, nessuno2001 wrote: Hello everybody,
do you know how much was a ticket for the London underground in the
early '60s?

In preparation for decimalisation in 1971, London Transport moved all
fares to be multiples of 6d, which had an exact conversion at 2.5p.
And they were one of the last organisations to make widespread use of
the half (new) penny before its abolition.

In doing this, they were one of the few large organisations to be
completely transparent about decimalisation. Most took the opportunity
to introduce a hidden price increase, even other nationalised
transport bodies. Scottish Omnibuses increased the fare from my home
town to the nearest city from 2s 3d (just over 11p) to 13p.

John

In message
,
"John @ home" writes
On Jun 9, 8:50 pm, 1506 wrote:
On Jun 9, 9:33 am, nessuno2001 wrote: Hello
everybody,
do you know how much was a ticket for the London underground in the
early '60s?

In preparation for decimalisation in 1971, London Transport moved all
fares to be multiples of 6d, which had an exact conversion at 2.5p.
And they were one of the last organisations to make widespread use of
the half (new) penny before its abolition.

In doing this, they were one of the few large organisations to be
completely transparent about decimalisation. Most took the opportunity
to introduce a hidden price increase, even other nationalised
transport bodies. Scottish Omnibuses increased the fare from my home
town to the nearest city from 2s 3d (just over 11p) to 13p.

Indeed they did. I have a copy of a Bristol Omnibus leaflet
advertising Day Tickets at:

"7/- (40p from February 1971)".
--
Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

Registered Blue Badge Tourist Guide for London and the Heart of England
http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk

"John @ home" wrote

In preparation for decimalisation in 1971, London Transport moved all
fares to be multiples of 6d, which had an exact conversion at 2.5p.

British Rail did the same, one exception being platform tickets which were
4d, IIRC, before decimalisation, and became 2p on decimalisation. BR went
decimal a day earlier than the national D-day, so for the price of an Oxford
platform ticket (the last time I've ever bought one) I had in my hand the
change for a shilling of a 1p and a 2p coin a day before most people could
get hold of them.

Peter

Peter Masson wrote:

BR went decimal a day earlier than the national D-day, so for the
price of an Oxford platform ticket (the last time I've ever bought
one) I had in my hand the change for a shilling of a 1p and a 2p coin
a day before most people could get hold of them.

Example coinage was on sale for a couple of years before it could be
spent. A plastic wallet labelled "Britain's First Decimal Coins". Anyone
could get a set.
--
http://gallery120232.fotopic.net/p9683781.html
(150 138 at Stalybridge, 26 Feb 2001)

The message
from Chris Tolley contains these words:

Example coinage was on sale for a couple of years before it could be
spent. A plastic wallet labelled "Britain's First Decimal Coins". Anyone
could get a set.

The banks were happy to supply schools with some 1p and 2p coins ahead
of the change-over so that the children could get familiar with the new
coins. I pushed my luck with the local TSB and got hold of a tenner's
worth about a month before D-day, the next step being to invite parents
and grandparents into the classroom to share in the children's
experience. I had a *very* full classroom each morning* for a couple of
weeks - and I still had a tenner's worth of coins at the end!
[* We had to do some real sums in the afternoons!]

--
Dave,
Frodsham

On Jun 10, 8:14*am, Chris Tolley wrote:
Peter Masson wrote:
BR went decimal a day earlier than the national D-day, so for the
price of an Oxford platform ticket (the last time I've ever bought
one) I had in my hand the change for a shilling of a 1p and a 2p coin
a day before most people could get hold of them.

Example coinage was on sale for a couple of years before it could be
spent. A plastic wallet labelled "Britain's First Decimal Coins". Anyone
could get a set.

Do you happen to know the provenance of a 1970 two-shilling (ie 10p
till 1992) coin I found in my change once?

Was there an equivalent "last non-decimal coins" set available that
included coins that weren't generally made and that someone
accidentally spent? (Given that they started using 10p coins for 2s
in 1968.)

John @ home wrote:
On Jun 9, 8:50 pm, 1506 wrote:
On Jun 9, 9:33 am, nessuno2001 wrote: Hello everybody,
do you know how much was a ticket for the London underground in the
early '60s?

In preparation for decimalisation in 1971, London Transport moved all
fares to be multiples of 6d, which had an exact conversion at 2.5p.
And they were one of the last organisations to make widespread use of
the half (new) penny before its abolition.

In doing this, they were one of the few large organisations to be
completely transparent about decimalisation. Most took the opportunity
to introduce a hidden price increase, even other nationalised
transport bodies. Scottish Omnibuses increased the fare from my home
town to the nearest city from 2s 3d (just over 11p) to 13p.

John

The day before the switch, the price of most beer was 3/- per pint. The
day of the switch, it was the equivalent price of 15p. The day after it
was 16p, a swingeing rise at the time, though it pales into
insignificance today.

--
Corporate society looks after everything. All it asks of anyone, all it
has ever asked of anyone, is that they do not interfere with management
decisions. -From “Rollerball”

I seem to recall that the post office put second class mail up from 4d to
2.5p (ie 6d) and first class mail up from 5d to 3p (7.2d) and claimed that
it wasnt really a price increase.


A 50% increase in the price of a second class letter certainly sounded like
one to me!