Re: Edmonson Ticket type

["Chris Stratton" <stratton.chris.cp@nospam.bhp.com.au>]

Eddie Oliver <eoliver@efs.mq.edu.au> wrote in message
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> John Duncan McCallum wrote:
>
>
> > 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.
>
> The black squares were the standard arrangement in NSW till the 1960s,
> at a guess, and many survived much longer than that.
>
> In view of the interstate rivalry which seems to be apparent on this
> newsgroup recently, it would be unwise of me to comment that the
> Victorians just never brought themselves into the modern era in this
> matter.
>
> Eddie
>
I have just looked through my ticket collection and found the following ones
with numbers inside black squares:
Brisbane suburban tickets purchased in 1984, 1988 and 1996.
A Wollongong to Broken Hill Return ticket purchased in 1984, but I think the
ticket had been in stock a long time.
I also have tickets from Museums and tourist railways with the numbers in a
black square, these are Puffing Billy, Tasmanian Transport Museum, Don River
Railway and ARHS Museum North Williamstown.
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Regards,
Chris Stratton
Wollongong, NSW, Australia
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