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Card, marked '85', typed 'Great Western Railway, Gloucester, specimen tickets, 7...

Catalogue reference: ZSPC 11/482/16

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Reference
ZSPC 11/482/16
Date
1890-1950
Description

Card, marked '85', typed 'Great Western Railway, Gloucester, specimen tickets, 7 tickets mounted on front and 12 tickets mounted on reverse, [all tickets issued at Gloucester]:

Front of card:

1) Great Western Railway platform ticket, [cost] 1d, [series code] S45, [serial No] 1153, buff with black outline 'P' on left side, hour numbers 1 to 12 printed on each edge, am top, pm bottom.

2) Great Western Railway platform ticket, [cost] 1d, [series code] S69, [serial No] 699, blue with broad white horizontal bar and black outline 'P' on left side, hour numbers 1 to 12 printed on each edge, am top, pm bottom.

3) Ticket barrier permit, holder is permitted 'to proceed to the [London, Midland and Scottish] or Great Western station for the purpose of re-booking', [serial No] 39052.

Platform tickets, issued by British Railways [Western Region], hour numbers 1 to 6 printed on bottom edge, 7 to 12 on top edge:

4) Issued free, [serial No] 45875, blue.

Three [cost] 1d, white with thick red outline diamond on left side:

5) [series code] S70, [serial No] 2787.

6) [series code] S6, [serial No] 4737.

7) [series code] S9, [serial No] 6435.

Reverse of card:

8) Great Western Railway, second class return portion, Cheltenham to Gloucester, [printer's initials] AI, fare 1/2, [serial No] 4248, blue with vertical red bar.

Eight single tickets issued by Great Western Railway for travel from Gloucester to:

9) Tintern via Chepstow, second class, [printer's initials] CG, fare 3/3, [serial No] 003, dated 5 [August, year missing], blue.

10) Malvern Link via Newent, third class, [printer's initials] AI, fare 2/3, [serial No] 6932, buff, clipped.

11) Cheltenham, third class, [printer's initials] WL, fare 6d, [serial No] 6106, buff.

12) Stroud, third class, [printer's initials] WD, fare 1/0, [serial No] 5958, buff, clipped.

13) Stroud, third class, fare 1/6, [serial No] 6106, buff, clipped.

14) Stroud, [Parliamentary] third class, [printer's initials] JB, fare 1/0, [serial No] 3244, green.

15) Malvern Wells via Newent, [Parliamentary] third class, [printer's initials] HG, fare 2/1, [serial No] 1958, blue.

16) King's Cross via Swindon and Bishops [Road], [Parliamentary] third class, [printer's initials] AI, fare 9/6, [serial No] 258, green, clipped.

17) Great Western Railway, [Parliamentary] third class cheap day return, outward portion, Gloucester to Speech House [Road] via Ross and Lydbrook [Junction], [printer's initials] FM, [serial No] 075, green with manuscript note 'circular tour', and black stroke.

18) Insurance ticket for sum insured £1000, price 6d, [serial No] 266, dated 8 June 1906, white.

19) British Railways [Western Region], parking ticket for motor car or three-wheeled vehicle at Gloucester Registration No [blank], fee 1/0 [fare code] Z, [series code] S1, [serial No] 9293, yellow.

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Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
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W E Hayward Collection

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