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 mezzer  Main Stand, Block F, Row 20 seat 1... 16 Jan 18 10.38am |
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Originally posted by Park Road
And the red bus rover Is this another dog?
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Park Road  16 Jan 18 11.21am |
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Originally posted by mezzer
Is this another dog? Ha! ha! no. It was Like a travel/oyster card that cost 10p more or less. Edited by Park Road (16 Jan 2018 11.21am)
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| rob1969 Banstead Surrey 16 Jan 18 11.46am |
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Originally posted by Willo
I don't recall ever purchasing a 'Red Rover' ticket. I recall the tickets issued by conductors on their silver machines on the end of straps around their necks. The conductor used to turn the dial for the correct fare, turn a handle and the ticket would emerge ! Probably many on here were not around in those days.
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| Willo South coast - west of Brighton. 16 Jan 18 11.58am |
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Originally posted by rob1969
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 Cucking Funt Clapham on the Back 17 Jan 18 12.57am |
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Originally posted by Willo
Those good old 'Routemasters' with conductors and their silver ticket machines."Any fares please ?". In the early 70s, the 196 went from NJ to Tuffnell Park, curtailed to Brixton Gresham Road in about 1973. The 68, at its longest, ran from South Croydon Garage to Chalk Farm.
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Jimenez  SELHURSTPARKCHESTER,DA BRONX 17 Jan 18 1.22am |
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Originally posted by Cucking Funt
In the early 70s, the 196 went from NJ to Tuffnell Park, curtailed to Brixton Gresham Road in about 1973. The 68, at its longest, ran from South Croydon Garage to Chalk Farm. 'Tickets Please' Bender
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| alaneagle1 Dunstable,Bedfordshire.England 17 Jan 18 7.55am |
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Originally posted by Park Road
Was the Red Rover the ticket you purchased and then could go on any bus around London.?
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| Park Road 17 Jan 18 8.15am |
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Originally posted by alaneagle1
Was the Red Rover the ticket you purchased and then could go on any bus around London.? Yeah! exactly mate.
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| ex hibitionist Hastings 17 Jan 18 8.30am |
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here we are, a loop from two threads
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| YT Oxford 17 Jan 18 9.36am |
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Originally posted by rob1969
I know some fascinating facts about this process. As you will know, Rob, each ticket was a different colour, depending on the fare/distance travelled - so a one penny fare might be yellow, 'tuppence' might be purple, and so on. When the clippy got back to base, the contents of their machine (i.e. all the 'punchings') were emptied out in front of an 'accounts person', who then had to sort the tiny bits of paper into their respective colours, count them all up and reconcile the 'expected' total fares with the cash handed in by the clippy. All without a calculator or Excel spreadsheet, of course. Try telling that to kids today! According to the London Transport Museum (as it was called when I visited, and where I learned all this) the accounts people were always women, because apparently their colour differentiation is better that that of men - certainly on that minute scale.
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| YT Oxford 17 Jan 18 9.44am |
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Originally posted by Willo
Those good old 'Routemasters' with conductors and their silver ticket machines."Any fares please ?". Me again! A good few years ago, there was a photoshoot in a (a-hem) 'gentlemen's lifestyle magazine' of the actress who played 'Olive' in 'On the Buses'. Even though her character was deliberately unattractive, I believe that out of character, the actress had a certain charm. Anyway, there was a photo of her on the cover of the magazine, with the caption: "Plenty of room on top!" It's Olive from On the Buses! The double-entendre used was another cry of the Routemaster conductor or conductress.
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| It's only a game Praa Sands 17 Jan 18 9.44am |
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Originally posted by alaneagle1
Was the Red Rover the ticket you purchased and then could go on any bus around London.? We had some fun days out back then and only cost a couple of bob. Visits to the Post Office Tower and the Monument I recall. Edited by It's only a game (17 Jan 2018 9.48am)
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