Page created Thursday 5th March, 2009 - HTML 4.01 Transitional Last modified/checked: Friday, 26th April 2019 Booking Offices used Rail only card for all Adult and Half Fare Single or Return journeys and for Child Minifare tickets. The same fare types were issued on this card from Ticket Vending machines, but only to stations wholly within the E.S.R. The codes for these three fares were "SGL", "RTN" and "MIN" ("O-P" replaced "MIN" from the 28th Jume 1987). There were three designs of this card, in a multitude of shades of red. |
The printing on the rear was oriented so that the magnetic stripe appeared at the "bottom" of the ticket. Subsequent printings placed the magnetic stripe at the "top" of the ticket. |
UT779, UT1179, UT 8/80, blank, A2, A3, A6, A8, A10 The general issue souvenir tickets used an identical back with an ID of UT679. |
The wording on the rear was amended at the second point where "DO NOT BEND....." was altered from "this Ticket" to "the Ticket" and at the fifth point from "Commission" to "Authority". |
UT 10/80, UT 2/81, UT 4/81, UT 6/81, UT 2/82. |
UT 6/82, UT 7/82, UT 10/82, UT 1/83, Blank. |
Most important is the fact that this ticket was produced without a magnetic stripe on the back. This was probably due to the impending introduction of the Automatic Fare Collection system; the electronic barriers on the ESR having fallen into disuse by this time. The booking office and ticket issuing machines however, still required an ongoing supply of ESR card. |