Date: 31/12/2015

Paper train tickets could become extinct under plans to allow passengers to tap in and out of stations with their bank cards, The Telegraph has learnt. As soon as next year, rail users will be able 'buy' journeys online “ using a computer or mobile phone “ and travel carrying just the credit or debit card with which they paid.

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End of the paper train ticket as railways 'go paperless'

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Exclusive: Passengers will be able "buy" journeys online and travel carrying just the bank card with which they paid, The Telegraph can reveal

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Location: Tickets and labels
Company: British Rail
04/01/1969 Bruce McCartney

Despite a major change in the issuing system the current credit card-shaped tickets have changed little since they were introduced 20-odd years ago. They brought in standardised issue and replaced a number of styles of ticket, including this transitional style, issued at Queen Street for a journey to Balloch Central on 29 September 1984. This design was also credit card-sized but with square corners. Although issued partly electronically they still entailed the clerk fetching a ticket from a large rack of pre-printed destinations as their predecessors had done for 140 years.
Location: Tickets and labels
Company: British Rail
29/09/1984 David Panton

My somewhat unusual return ticket for Springburn to Cumbernauld in 1987.
Location: Tickets and labels
Company: City of Glasgow Union Railway
//1987 Ewan Crawford