Ticket System
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Ticket System
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The ticketing on the Bennett Brook Railway utilises Ticket Issuing Machines (TIM’s) which were used by ticket issuers and later guards on the Perth Metropolitan Rail System until electrification in 1991. The TIM’s were also used on the buses until 1993.
The
exact date of the introduction of TIM’s on Perth transport is uncertain,
however I have been reliably informed that the TIM’s were used on the Perth
busses prior to the introduction of the MTT in 1958. The machines
are very robust being all metal (no plastic parts).
They were originally set up for shillings and pence and later converted
to decimal currency in 1966. (If
you look at the picture of the TIM, there are 11 holes (2 blanked off) in the
“telephone dial” for 1d to 11d).
The link below
gives a detailed history of the TIM’s in Great Britain. www.haslingdencorporationtransport.org.uk/a_brief_history_of_tim.htm The use
of the TIM’s at BBR is another working example of bygone railway practices in
Western Australia. TIM Tickets are now only available from the guard on BBR trains. Tickets purchased from Whiteman Village Junction Station ticket sellers are issued by cash register.
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Bennett Brook Railway Webmaster N. Blinco
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