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An APTIS travel ticket from Leamington Spa to Bradford-on-Avon. All printed details are identified by a number and summarised below. Tickets issued from British Rail's APTIS system had a considerable amount of detail, presented in a consistent, standard format. The design for all tickets was created by Colin Goodall.
The station group is printed on national railway tickets as MANCHESTER STNS. For passengers travelling from one of the 91 National Rail stations in Greater Manchester , the four stations are printed as MANCHESTER CTLZ which additionally permits the use of Metrolink tram services in Zone 1 (between Cornbrook , New Islington and Victoria ).
Rail Settlement Plan (RSP) is a division of the Rail Delivery Group in the United Kingdom.It provides a wide range of common services to the UK's train operating companies and third-party providers of information and retail services.
It was widely known as the All-Purpose Ticket-Issuing System, a description which was used during the development of the prototype devices. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It led to the introduction, on the national railway, of a new standardised machine-printable ticket, the APTIS ticket , which replaced the Edmondson railway ticket first introduced in the 1840s.
A train ticket is a transit pass ticket issued by a railway operator that enables the bearer to travel on the operator's network or a partner's network. Tickets can authorize the bearer to travel a set itinerary at a specific time (common for long-distance railroads), a set itinerary at any time (common for commuter railroads ), a set itinerary ...
4930 Hagley Hall is a Great Western Railway, 4-6-0 Hall class locomotive, built in May 1929 at Swindon Works to a design by Charles Collett. It is one of eleven of this class that made it into preservation. The locomotive is named after Hagley Hall in Worcestershire.
The tickets were printed on card cut to 1 + 7 ⁄ 32 by 2 + 1 ⁄ 4 inches (31.0 by 57.2 mm), with a nominal thickness of 1 ⁄ 32 inch (0.79 mm). The whole system, from printing to bulk storage to ticket racks, dating and issue, was based on these measurements.
Thomas Edmondson (30 June 1792 [1] in Lancaster, England – 22 June 1851 [2] [3] in Manchester, England) was the inventor of the Edmondson railway ticket.. He was a member of the Religious Society of Friends and originally worked at the Gillow cabinet making business in Lancaster.