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Description: | This ticket dating machine was made by J. Rayner of Carlisle. The ticket office kept a supply of undated, ready-printed tickets. When a passenger bought a ticket, it was pushed into the slot of the dating machine. This made the 'jaws' clamp together, and an internal stamp imprinted the date on the ticket. The first such machine was invented in 1837 by Thomas Edmondson, station master at Milton on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway. Today a computer prints the date onto the ticket when you buy it, but the principle is the same. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | living in the North East transport | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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