Re: Edmonson Ticket type

[Railway Rasputin <bob@fastlink.com.au>]

John Duncan McCallum wrote:

> David Bromage wrote:
>
> > pkleong@my-deja.com wrote:
>
> > > I need help to source out supplier for
> > > Edmonson tickets.
>
> > Keith Atkinson in Melbourne has several Edmondson and Waterlow printing
> > machines. He can be contacted through Puffing Billy, who part own some
> > of
> > the machines.
>
> > He's also got the only set of positive Edmondson numbering wheels ever made,
> > that is, not the usual numbers printed inside a black square. They
> > belonged to the Emu Bay Railway.
>
> > Cheers
> > David
>
> I never saw any tickets with numbers inside a black square until I first
> visited
> Victoria in 1967.
> All other states either used black numbers or embossed.
> AFAIK numbers in black squares was uniquely VR.
>
> John McCallum

Early NSW tickets did i know that for a fact because my father is a booking
clerkand has been for the last 30+ years. Some of the tickets were so old that the
first one on the rack had faded.

One that springs to mind was a Campbelltown - Sydney yearly ticket whic was
different to the others because it was blue, inversed numbered and was 0546, of
the first issue of that type to Campbelltown.

rgds