Transport Age 21 : April 1962 : cover : Manchester Piccadilly booking office : Anthony Atkinson
The British Transport Commission's magazine "Transport Age" and the cover to the Aptil 1962 issue. It shows the new booking office at the reconstructed Manchester Piccadilly station that was in the throws of being Modernised as part of the West Coast Electrification scheme. The artwork is by Anthony Atkinson.
Anthony Claude Atkinson (1929 - 2015), the son of artist Claude Atkinson, was a painter and teacher whose work was also commissioned by London Transport for posters. This shows the newly equipped ticket office at Piccadilly that contained "the latest equipment" to maintain a fast passenger flow. This includes four AEG Multiprinter Major machines, that could issue a range of 1,260 different tickets, one AEG Multiprinter Minor, that dealt with 630 different tickets, and two Flexiprinters that could manage 30 regular fares. These AEG machines, of German manufacture, were used at many larger stations across the Eastern, London Midland and Western Regions until the introduction of APTIS machines.
Transport Age 21 : April 1962 : cover : Manchester Piccadilly booking office : Anthony Atkinson
The British Transport Commission's magazine "Transport Age" and the cover to the Aptil 1962 issue. It shows the new booking office at the reconstructed Manchester Piccadilly station that was in the throws of being Modernised as part of the West Coast Electrification scheme. The artwork is by Anthony Atkinson.
Anthony Claude Atkinson (1929 - 2015), the son of artist Claude Atkinson, was a painter and teacher whose work was also commissioned by London Transport for posters. This shows the newly equipped ticket office at Piccadilly that contained "the latest equipment" to maintain a fast passenger flow. This includes four AEG Multiprinter Major machines, that could issue a range of 1,260 different tickets, one AEG Multiprinter Minor, that dealt with 630 different tickets, and two Flexiprinters that could manage 30 regular fares. These AEG machines, of German manufacture, were used at many larger stations across the Eastern, London Midland and Western Regions until the introduction of APTIS machines.