Transport tokens?

[Saperstein]

Hi,

Does anyone remember ‘Transport tokens’?

I understand they could be used on buses and trains? Where did one get them?

More recently I understand First Buses in Glasgow issue a similar token which can be used to buy a single ticket? Some sort of carnet?

Saperstein.

 

[RJ]

Yes. One source of them was the local council. I occasionally made use of them.

Not sure if they're as widely accepted on the trains as before - we've been told to stop accepting them.

 

[Bluebirdscot66]

First Scotland east have vouchers £0.25p £0.50,£1.00,£5.00 . & zonal vouchers for weekly tickets. Sometimes given out as promotion or from job centres or widely thought that if a complaint is taken then complainant receives a voucher, whether or not it is upheld or not .

 

[Ken H]

in the 70's i drove a taxi for a year. We took tokens. trouble is there was a county border close by so we had two types of tokens. Had to bag them up and send them off to the county council. got a cheque back some time later. pain in the sr$e for self employed.

 

[robertclark125]

There was at one time, indeed well into the 1990s, National Transport Tokens, which was based at Frenchwood Avenue, Preston, same head office as Ribble at the time. I think that Stagecoach acquired a share in NTT. The tokens were in a similar shape to a 50p, indeed I've got one somewhere, with a Tyne and Wear Metrocar on it. I don't know if NTT was actually, at one time, owned by the NBC.

 

[Journeyman]

Yes. One source of them was the local council. I occasionally made use of them.

Not sure if they're as widely accepted on the trains as before - we've been told to stop accepting them.

According to Wikipedia, transport tokens stopped being issued to customers in April 2018, and were no longer accepted after October.

I remember being told about them when I joined the railway as a booking clerk in 1994, but never came across anyone actually using them.

 

[Westnat]

Newport Transport still sell tokens to organisations such as schools for travel on their services.