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Card [mounting Great Western Railway Edmondson-style return tickets], [nineteen tickets...

Catalogue reference: ZSPC 11/499/79

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This record is about the Card [mounting Great Western Railway Edmondson-style return tickets], [nineteen tickets... dating from [1915] in the series W E Hayward Collection. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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ZSPC 11/499/79
Date
[1915]
Description

Card [mounting Great Western Railway Edmondson-style return tickets], [nineteen tickets on front, sixteen tickets on reverse], all numbered '9999' and over-stamped 'Specimen', [undated c 1915], [see ZSPC11/499/76]:

1) Cream, 'Birmingham [Snow Hill] to Weymouth via Didcot [and] Chippenham or Reading [and] Theale, Third Class', overprinted 'S' [Excursion Short Period].

2) Cream, 'Birmingham [Snow Hill] to Weymouth via Didcot [and] Chippenham or Reading [and] Theale, Third Class', overprinted 'M', [Excursion Middle Period].

3) Cream, 'Birmingham [Snow Hill] to Weymouth via Didcot [and] Chippenham or Reading [and] Theale, Third Class', overprinted 'L', [Excursion Long Period].

4) Buff, 'Penzance to St Ives, Third Class', overprinted 'F', [Fishworker].

5) Buff, 'Paddington to Plymouth [Millbay] via Dawlish, Third Class', overprinted 'FP', [Friend of Ocean Passenger].

6) Buff, 'Worcester [Shrub Hill] to Colwall, Third Class', overprinted 'FH', [Fruit and Hop Picker].

7) Buff, 'Birmingham [Snow Hill] to Worcester [Shrub Hill], Third Classr', overprinted 'GM', [Gardener [or] Market Gardener].

8) Buff, 'Paddington to Slough, Third Class', overprinted 'G', [Golfer].

9) Green, 'Birmingham [Snow Hill] to Norton [Junction], Third Class', overprinted 'GR', [Government Rate].

10) White, 'Paddington 1 to Reading, First Class, Government ½ Rate', overprinted 'GR'.

11) Green, 'Paddington 1 to Reading, Third Class, Government ½ Rate', overprinted 'GR'.

12) White, 'Paddington 1 to Reading, First Class, Government ¾ Rate', overprinted 'GR'.

13) Mauve, 'Paddington 1 to Reading, Third Class, Government ¾ Rate', overprinted 'GR'

14) White, 'Plymouth [Millbay] to Paddington via Dawlish, First Class', overprinted 'AO', [Government Rate Army Officer on Duty].

15) White, 'Birmingham [Snow Hill] to Paddington, First Class', overprinted 'O', [Government Rate Army Officer on Leave].

16) White, 'Paddington 1 to Reading, First Class', overprinted 'L', [Government Rate His Majesty's Forces on Leave].

17) White, 'Birmingham [Snow Hill] to Dudley, First Class', overprinted 'ND', [Government Rate Naval Officer on Duty].

18) White, 'Birmingham [Snow Hill] to Llanelly, First Class', overprinted 'NO', [Government Rate Naval Officer on Leave].

19) Buff, 'Paddington to Reading, Third Class', overprinted 'L', [Government Rate His Majesty's Forces on Leave].

20) Green, 'Paddington to Windsor [and] Eton via Slough, Third Class', overprinted 'PL', [Government Rate Police on Duty].

21) Buff, 'Paddington to Plymouth [Millbay] via Dawlish, Third Class', overprinted 'PO', [Government Rate Post Office Mail Service].

22) Green, 'Plymouth [Millbay] to Bodmin via Bodmin Road, Third Class', overprinted 'RE', [Government Rate Royal Engineer on Postal Telegraph Duty].

23) Buff, 'St Ives to Plymouth [Millbay], Third Class', overprinted 'RN', [Government Rate Royal Naval Reserve].

24) Green, 'Weymouth to Portland, Third Class', overprinted 'SA', [Government Rate Sailor on Duty.

25) Green, 'Weymouth to Portland, Third Class', overprinted 'SO', [Government Rate Soldier on Duty].

26) Buff, 'Weymouth to Paddington via Westbury and [Chippenham] or Theale, Third Class', overprinted 'SL', [Government Rate Soldier Seaman, etc on Leave].

27) White, 'Paddington to Maidenhead, First Class', overprinted 'GC', [Guards Boat Club].

28) Buff, 'Birmingham [Snow Hill] to Waterford via Fishguard [and] Direct Steamer, Third Class', overprinted 'H, [Harvestman]'.

29) Buff, 'Penzance to St Ives, Third Class', overprinted 'HI', [Higgler].

30) Buff, 'Birmingham [Snow Hill] to Lapworth, Third Class', overprinted 'HU', [Hunter].

31) Grey, 'Newport [High Street] to Bassaleg, Third Class', overprinted 'MA'. [Market Ticket].

32) Buff, '[Port] Talbot [General] to Bristol [Temple Meads], Third Class', overprinted 'ML', [Mercantile Marine on Leave].

33) Buff, 'Birmingham [Snow Hill] to Oldbury, Third Class', overprinted 'MR', [Miniature Rifle and Rifle Clubs].

34) Buff, 'Birmingham [Snow Hill] to Shrewsbury, Third Class', overprinted 'OC', [Orchestral Company].

35) Buff, 'Paddington to Taplow, Third Class', overprinted 'PC', [Poor Child and Attendant].

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Non record material
Access conditions
Open Immediately
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16549756/

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W E Hayward Collection

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