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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21290, 9 October 1934, Page 9

I I What the Public have been waiting for i

In the Great Western Rmlway Museum at Paddington, London, is a collection of hundreds of railway tickets, many ot which recall historic happenings' or events of unusual interest in the last 100 years of railways. A handsome Oxford blue ticket, the colour chosen for second-class travel, recalls the abolition of Becond-class tickets, first from the Cornish Wvlera Express, on July 1, 1905. October 10. 1910, from all thecom. pany's trains. Another ticket reminds one that before 1891 fares were not shown on tickets, after which date an act of Parliament made it compulsory for fares to be shown except °n tickets issued at a reduced rata T-icKei No. 8799. from Morazoin to Penzance, dated May 20, 1892. was the last to be issued for a broad-gauge train. 3«ert. are rail-cum-ferry tickets, "sued Before the opening of the Severn tunn£ in 1886. for passengers who wished to avoid the long rail detour via Glou cester. and.an unusual rnil-curn-tea«c ket issued for a Sunday school cut.nz fr * Loop.