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Ah, ticket spelling errors; a fertile ground. I'll just mention a few here: in the early days of APTIS, the spelling ABERYSTWTH was downloaded to machines instead of ABERYSTYWYTH, and there are a few others I can't think of now. But APTIS was nothing compared to its slightly less sophisticated...

Oh, and while on the subject of Crawley New Town (sorry, this spelling mistake-related but not rail-related) ... each of its neighbourhoods has its own colour, which is shown on each street name sign along with the name of the neighbourhood. Attached is an unfortunate example from the Southgate...

I remember seeing in a local newspaper report circa 1998 that Connex had messed up when installing new Connex-liveried signage at Ifield ... all the signs were misspelled "Eyefield"!

Exeter was a group until May 1992. It was disbanded with effect from the start of National Fares Manual 51. Along with many of the other station groups, it was introduced w.e.f. NFM 29 in January 1985, although interestingly St James's Park station was included within the group only from...

Brighton in general is good for secondhand bookshops, particularly in the North Laine area immediately southeast of the station, but I can recommend a place called Colin Page Antiquarian Books at 36 Duke Street (nice central location, near the Clock Tower). It covers all subjects but had a...

In cases where somebody is travelling on an Advance ticket (or, back in the "old days", the likes of Superadvance, Virgin Value, Apex etc. etc. tickets) to somewhere that is part of a station group, I have always wondered why the ticket is almost always issued to the station group location (e.g...

Good to see this underway - I shall start scanning items from my collection very soon! Just a few questions to bb21: - How would you like to receive images? - By e-mail or through some other method? If by e-mail, would you prefer images attached directly to the e-mail, or .zip files (e.g...

On Saturday at Hassocks, I bought what was previously known as the FCC-only Super Off-Peak Travelcard. It was routed GT NORTHERN ONLY! The clerk said "The machine [Shere SMART Terminal] is printing them wrong" and wrote on the back accordingly. The implication was that it would be changed...

I was digging through old BR Sales Circulars (predecessors of the Newsrail Express) at the National Archives a while ago. Some of those, seemingly on a random basis, reported people who had fare-dodged, the value of the fare dodged and the fine, among other stuff. These were late-1980s...

Another one to add to the list of off-station TVMs: my contact in the general vicinity of the Midlands tells me a Shere FASTticket machine has been installed in the food court in the University Centre at the University of Birmingham. Tickets are issued from UNIVERSITY BIRM, obviously!

Thanks. He managed it at the second attempt (first time: forgot his photocard!), although two clerks had to get involved to work out the fare and how to issue it.

I was about to ask the same question :D I haven't seen any 16-25 status codes down south yet, but I will keep an eye out. starmill's Avantix Mobile was issued from a Lincoln-based conductor's machine, incidentally (NLC 9607). On the Northern experimental new layout: regarding the...

Hello all, A friend needs to commute between Haywards Heath and Slough daily for a while (Seven Day or Monthly seasons would be of interest, nothing longer than that). No Season Ticket fares appear to be available between the two; I imagine it's something to do with having to cross London...

Possibly all three, to be honest. Today's Railways Review of the Year 1989 isn't listed in the extensive bibliography, but a lot of similar sources from a similar era are given.

According to p116 of The Network SouthEast Story 1982-2014, recently published... Great Northern: frontage of Kings Cross station Anglia Electrics: badge of Anglia Regiment LTS: A Thames barge Kent Coast: badge of the Cinque Ports Kent Link: Greenwich skyline South London Lines: the...

No - I can confirm that they don't.

Back in the days of Connex South Central, they randomly installed a Quickfare self-service machine in a newsagent near Norbury station. It didn't last very long! I posted some stuff on another thread a while ago about off-station self-service machines. There are examples at Bournemouth and...

Not as far as I'm aware. I go with "Northern Rail Parkeon experimental layout" when writing about it. Bit of a mouthful :) Any news yet on its (threatened) spread to other ticket issuing systems?

I thought it was 1978, when the whole timetable for the area was recast (I'm not too good on pre-Network SouthEast history, but I think it's what was known as the South Central Division). I might be able to dig out some info in one of my rail books.

Don't forget this one: she masqueraded as a man so she could join the army, and lived a very long life indeed! If you have Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online access (most library cards give this), you can read her bio here... http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13132