Great Western Railway ticket montage from the Sunday Times colour magazine, 8 November 1970
Almost the ultimate in ephemera - a fine collection (from that of C R Gordon Stuart) of mostly "Edmondson" style railway tickets issued by the Great Western Railway, a long-lived line that survived until nationalisation in 1948. It shows the massive variety of card tickets required for numerous services above and beyond the standard single and return! The text makes especial note of the supplementary ticket for the 'streamlined rail car' services - the GWR's precursors of the High Speed Train! There are some fascinating items here - the style of ticket, the locations (many of which have now gone due to closures) and all together they make a great montage.
Some real oddities include a pauper's ticket and a shipwrecked sailors one. Two of interest to me show the GWR's involvement in the operation of the London Underground. An early 1863 ticket from Bishop's Rd to King's Cross on the first section of the Metropolitan Railway - and a 1920s one for the Central line extension to Ealing Broadway that, like much of the western extensions of that line, were constructed by the GWR on behalf of the Underground.
Great Western Railway ticket montage from the Sunday Times colour magazine, 8 November 1970
Almost the ultimate in ephemera - a fine collection (from that of C R Gordon Stuart) of mostly "Edmondson" style railway tickets issued by the Great Western Railway, a long-lived line that survived until nationalisation in 1948. It shows the massive variety of card tickets required for numerous services above and beyond the standard single and return! The text makes especial note of the supplementary ticket for the 'streamlined rail car' services - the GWR's precursors of the High Speed Train! There are some fascinating items here - the style of ticket, the locations (many of which have now gone due to closures) and all together they make a great montage.
Some real oddities include a pauper's ticket and a shipwrecked sailors one. Two of interest to me show the GWR's involvement in the operation of the London Underground. An early 1863 ticket from Bishop's Rd to King's Cross on the first section of the Metropolitan Railway - and a 1920s one for the Central line extension to Ealing Broadway that, like much of the western extensions of that line, were constructed by the GWR on behalf of the Underground.