Recent content by Hassocks5489

We do! @StephenHunter I can throw the question open to my TTS colleagues if you would like me to (my specialism is tickets of the 1980s and onwards), but I can offer you some example photographs from the collection of a fellow TTS member which I now hold. Broadly speaking, tickets issued with...

I queried the database of my ticket collection to see if I could find any London–Holyhead tickets. These are all adult fares, so halve them for the child equivalent: 1991: Supersaver Return was £39.00 (knock off a pound for a Single) 1992: Saver Return was £54.00 (knock off a pound for a...

In relation to commemorative plaques: I took this photo in 2007 at Littlehampton, but from memory I think the plaque is still there. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Littlehampton_Station_03_(07-07-2007).JPG (The plaque reads "This station was officially opened by Mr Peter Shepherd...

You should be fine to pass through the Hove barrier: the regular staff on the gateline there are very good and helpful, in my experience.

I would suggest the second coach, ideally towards the rear of it. At Hove station, look to the right first to see along the platform to observe whether the London train is arriving; then head through the exit doors and immediately turn left to reach the subway. The lifts are not working at the...

In my experience, physical tickets are checked. I can't say for certain about m-tickets etc., but I think they are scanned. (I use a physical Season Ticket).

I commute once a week from Hove to Lewes at peak time (and back mid-evening), and have done through the whole period of this revenue block. In my experience - connecting between the West Coastway train that arrives at 0821 and the East Coastway departure at 0826 - the "opening the lanes for...

I don't know for certain (the Fares Manual doesn't elaborate on it), but I think the reasons given in the two posts above this one are the most likely.

Indeed, but as I understand it such tickets would always have named the specific termini in question, rather than being issued to a generic "quasi"-destination.

From a ticketing/fares perspective, Old Street was included within the "London BR" station group (pre-privatisation equivalent of London Terminals) with effect from National Fares Manual 32 in January 1986. (Kensington Olympia was introduced at the same time, but was dropped from May 1994.) As...

I randomly found an interesting PDF saved on my PC: "Metrobus Route and Fleet History" (correct at November 2016). The big Tesco stores at Three Bridges and Hookwood (a.k.a. Gatwick Tesco) had various buses: *901 Crawley Bus Station – Three Bridges Tesco (2004–2016; then to Compass Travel)...

Just as a historical point of reference, having seen a mention of it above: the PORTIS (= PORtable Ticket Issuing System) on-train ticket issuing machine was introduced, in prototype form, on 3 May 1982 on trains in the Bristol area. After a number of refinements, the "proper" version of the...

I believe "aging" is the standard US/Canadian English spelling and "ageing" is usually used elsewhere with other varieties of English. I've noticed before that US English spellings are commonly used on Wordle, so I must admit I didn't pay particular attention to it today: when I had A*I** on...

I've just looked back at some old pics I took on the same day and it was actually July 2010 (i.e. not long after London Overground conversion) - not as long ago as I thought!

I've been using Railcard-discounted Thameslink Only Travelcards for more than 20 years, and regularly travel to Bromley South via Victoria "South Eastern" side. They have never once worked at the gatelines at either Victoria SE side or Bromley South. However, I have only once had problems with...