Another "old train ticket" post - a student pass from 1946
Posted Sep 5, 2021, 2:28 PM UTC
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Reddit is so obsessed with saying things are 'metal' but this is actually metal?
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This is super cool
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What an unlikely find. Thank you for sharing, with us and with the school!
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This is awesome.. Imagine a pass you could just put on a keytag and not worry about it. Much more viable for a student over a pass for a wallet that they likely dont even have yet
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How did it work? Were there gates of some sort or did a person inspect it?
Cool find !
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I'd say it was inspected at the gates to the station - they were still doing manual ticket inspections in the mid 80s when I had to catch the train to primary school, so I'm guessing it was all still low tech in the 40s and 50s.
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M to F only
Hmmmm ...
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Monday to Friday only - ticket holder was a student.
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Just following on from the other Student train ticket post - this is a student pass for 2nd Class rail travel between Strathfield and Croydon, issued in 1946.
I found it after a huge storm washed a whole lot of crap out of the grounds of PLC in Croydon into my backyard.
I ended up donating it to the school, and it's been added to the school's museum as an interesting piece of ephemera.
The markings mean:
The giant S denotes that it's a student pass.
The rectangle that's been punched out of it was a different shape month-to-month, to stop people re-using their ticket for longer than it was meant to be used.
The rest of it should be pretty self-explanatory...
The student this belonged to was enrolled at the school in 1946, and finished there in 1952 - she went on to study Pharmacy at Sydney Uni.
How do you know more about the student it belonged to? Was in amongst some other belongings that were identifiable?
When I donated it to the school, the archivist did some research into the name of the student (which is stamped into the ticket).
She invited me to the school to have a cup of tea whle she showed me around the museum and told me what she'd been able to find out about the ticket's owner, and later on shared a copy of the school's newsletter with more information in it, when they wrote a little story about the donation.
I think she got a ticket to Ryde in 1965
The girl's name is on the back of it. I assume the school provided the rest of the information. Perhaps those details are included in the museum exhibit.
what does "NSWGR" stand for?
New South Wales Government Railways.