The Block System and Ticket Collecting.

Progress, Volume I, Issue 12, 1 October 1906, Page 341

The Block System and Ticket Collecting.

There appears to be as much ignorance of railway terms amongst colonial journalists as as to be found in the startling effusions on railway matters that occasionally appear in halfpenny papers. A Cape Town journal, referring to the greater activity displayed by the ticket collecting

staft at Cape Town and in the vicinity, proceeds to state : " Until the block system is introduced at all stations no great improvement can be expected, for a large percentage of people will rob the Government whenever the opportunity occurs, and the present suburban traffic outside the terminus gives them an abundance of chances." We are here faced with a new railway problem : How does the block system of signalling prevent people from travelling without paying their fares ?