Great Western Railway Instructions for ticket issue & passenger traffic 1911

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Great Western Railway Instructions for ticket issue & passenger traffic 1911
 
Great Western Railway Instructions for ticket issue and passenger traffic accounting in the years before the Great War as issued to the Companys Staff in 1911
Spiral bound
Reprinted 2005
50 pages
CONTENTS
Passenger Traffic - Classes
Tickets
Ticket Stock Register .
Dating Passenger Tickets
Dating Presses, Etc. Numbered Punches Recall and Reprint of Tickets
Children.
Workmen's Weekly Tickets
Non-Issued Tickets
Collection and Examination of Passenger Tickets
Ticket Nippers and Punches
Tourist Tickets . Excursion Traffic Pleasure Parties . Privilege Tickets Free Tickets for Trainmen, Etc. .
Officers (Military and Naval), Soldiers, Sailors, Marines,
Coastguardsmen on Leave
Tickets at Reduced Fares.
Army, Navy, Police, Territorial Forces, Etc., Warrants
Orders of Shipping Companies and other Firms
for Tickets at Special or Ordinary Fares
Returned Fares . Excess Fares
Cheap Return Tickets available by Ordinary Trains and Cheap Third Class Day Tickets to Thames Riverside Stations.  

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY
Instructions for Ticket Issue
and
Passenger Traffic Accounting
In the Years before the Great War
Railway companies were large and complex businesses, and all departments laid down detailed rules to be followed by their staff. For the locomotive and running departments the rule book was important to safe working; for the station clerk, rules and instructions were designed to prevent errors in accounting and fraud by staff or members of the public.
Descriptions of the types of ticket issued, their dating, punching, and collecting, the terms on which various reduced rate tickets were available to eligible parties, season tickets issued and excess fares collected, together with the correct method of preparing station accounts were printed in an Instruction Book for the guidance of Stationmasters, Goods Agents and Others in the Preparation of their Accounts, Etc.
All such matters of accounting were supervised by the Audit Office at Paddington, and the detailed instructions once needed for good business management now provide a window into the world of Monthly Classifications, Special Paper Tickets, and the Privilege Ticket Orders for visiting members of Staff of Colonial Railways which were printed on yellow paper and issued only from the General Manager's Office.

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