Years ago - in the late 90s - I recall tickets being marked as used/cancelled by guards using devices which “crimped” the ticket rather than piercing a hole. This would have been on Thames Trains.
They compressed a logo or circle into the ticket by squeezing the paper and I remember thinking they were an ingenious way to reduce litter and pen marks.
Then they vanished, and in a fit of recent nostalgia I wanted to look them up - but despite a fair bit of searching I can’t find any evidence of their existence, maybe due to using the wrong terms! Does anyone know any more about their use, and why they disappeared?
They compressed a logo or circle into the ticket by squeezing the paper and I remember thinking they were an ingenious way to reduce litter and pen marks.
Then they vanished, and in a fit of recent nostalgia I wanted to look them up - but despite a fair bit of searching I can’t find any evidence of their existence, maybe due to using the wrong terms! Does anyone know any more about their use, and why they disappeared?