NR Tickets from LU touchscreen Ticket machines On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 02:35:40 -0700 (PDT), Rupert Candy
<urpthebarem> wrote:
>On Aug 16, 10:10 am, ts200...@m wrote:
>> I have noticed that you can purchase a ticket from my local LU station
>> in Zone 5 to Peterborough, a single is about £19.?? quid.
>>
>> What type of ticket is this? Is it printed on a NR ticket or an LU
>> ticket?
>
>I once bought a London Terminals-Sevenoaks single from the LU machine
>at London Bridge, when there were massive queues at all the machines
>upstairs. It's printed on standard LU stock (though it says NOT
>UNDERGROUND or something similar). The gripper passed it without a
>second glance, and it worked the ticket barriers at both ends. I
>presume it's a hangover from NSE days (when the Multifare machines
>with the hundreds of buttons had a couple of columns, coloured purple
>IIRC, with certain popular NSE destinations on them).
>
ISTR LU fare lists showing various "exotic" destinations long before
NSE was invented. |