| Lot | Description |
| 1 | GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY issued 3rd single Swansea E. Dock to Neath Abbey, dated 16/3/1904 and in excellent condition. Both stations closed on 28/9/1936. (1) | £80 |
| 2 | MILLWALL DOCKS COMPANY blue 2nd single Millwall Docks to Millwall Jun, dated 23/2/1895 and in VGC. The stations opened on 18th December 1871 and closed on 4th May 1926. (1) | £160 |
| 3 | GREENOCK AND PORT GLASGOW TRAMWAYS CO. LTD. named stage punch type TRAM TICKETS comprising ½d brown, 1d white, and 2½d orange. The first two tickets, which are by Bell Punch London, each have a minor tear, while the latter, which has a Bell Punch Uxbridge 1-23 imprint, has slight mounting marks – otherwise they are in VGC. The system closed on 15/7/1929. (3) | £40 |
| 4 | GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY early print LUGGAGE LABELS comprising G71 types: Steventon to Cheltenhm (sic); Oxford to Saltford; Steventon to Kintbury; together with a G73/3 “3rd Class” example on yellow paper: Banbury to Uffington. All items in VGC. (4) | £110 |
| 5 | LONDON & SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY orange T2 PLATFORM TICKET from Bournemouth West No.2. (1) | £90 |
| 6 | THE LONDON ROAD CAR COMPANY LTD. A selection of 6 BUS TICKETS from Route A and 4 from Route B, showing changes in style and route details between 1894 and 1906. Brief historical notes are included with the lot. (10) | £45 |
| 7 | NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY: An unused two-piece return ‘FOR ONE HUNTING HORSE ONLY’ from Saughton (closed 1/3/1921) to Linlithgow. Face in VGC; minor marking on (blank) back from previous mounting. (1) | £140 |
| 8 | LGOC & ASSOCIATED COS. A collection of 50 all different ‘fareboard’ geographical punch type BUS TICKETS from Routes 27 to 33, 35 to 41, 43, 88, 90, 177, 178, 183, 184 (with some linked routes). Includes high values. Condition generally VG. (50) | £65 |
| 9 | LONDON & NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY issued 3rd singles from Kingscliffe (to Leicester GN – paper back), Liverpool Lime St., Manchester London Road, Yeathouse (closed 13/4/1931), together with an issued Military or Naval Duty single from Wigan, a joined return Tebay to Ingleton M (Bd), a GN printed Theatrical single for 1897, an unclipped Rail Motor Car ticket for the St. Helens area, and audit tickets from 2 x Birmingham New Street and Moss Bank. The lot also includes 4 severed halves and 3 paper tickets. (11wh 4hlf 3 paper) | £80 |
| 10 | EAST & WEST JUNCTION & STRATFORD-ON-AVON, TOWCESTER & MIDLAND JUNCTION RAILWAY 3rd Class Parly single from Bidford to Stratford-on-Avon dated 22/9/1894 (the later part in pen). The origin station was renamed on 1/7/1909 and closed on 16/6/1947. (1) | £350 |
| 11 | BR (H) EX HIGHLAND RAILWAY LINES: A collection of 50 different issued transitional / 3rd class prints, comprising Bonar Bridge, 9 x Dingwall, 3 x Elgin, 2 x Forres, 2 x Golspie, 2 x Helmsdale, Invergordon, 19 x Inverness, 4 x Kyle of Lochalsh, Lairg, Perth HO, Tain, 2 x Thurso, 2 x Wick. Almost all are for journeys within the Highland system, with some closed stations as destinations. (50) | £130 |
| 12 | SOUTHERN RAILWAY – PLYMOUTH AREA: An issued HMF on leave 3rd single Devonport Kings Road to Barnstaple, together with 3rd singles Plymouth Friary to Plymouth North Road and Turnchapel (closed 10/9/51) to Plymouth Friary, and an undated Rail Motor Edmondson available between Oreston or Turnchapel and Plymouth Friary. The lot also includes 10 severed halves for journey from or to stations in Devon and Cornwall, of which 6 involve Plymouth, the most interesting being a 3rd Cheap Day o/h to Turnchapel, dated 20/5/1929. (4wh 10hlf) | £30 |
| 13 | WEST LONDON LINE: issued pre-grouping prints, comprising : GWR – 3rd Parly sgl Kensington A. Rd to King’s Cross;, 3rd sgl Kensington A.R. W to Baker Street; 1st two-piece rtn Kensington A. Rd E to Latimer Road; 3rd sgl Uxbridge Road to King’s Cross. L&NW&GW Joint Rys – 3rd sgl Kensington Addison Road E to Plaistow LT&S (child clip); 3rd sgl Kensington Addison Road W to Earls Court or Hammersmith DR; 3rd sgl Uxbridge Road to Clapham Common C&SL, together with an undated West London Ry 3rd Revised fare sgl Kensington Addison Rd W2 to Queens Park or Kilburn Park LE. (8) | £120 |
| 14 | CHESHIRE LINES COMMITTEE selection of types C41, C43 and C45 LUGGAGE LABELS on green, blue and pink coloured papers to a wide variety of “home” and “foreign” destinations including Burton, Cambridge, Chorlton, Crewe, Glazebrook, Gloucester (Midland), Ilfracombe, Loughboro’, Miller’s Dale (Midland), Northwich, St Pancras, Withington, etc. All different and mostly VGC. (20) | £100 |
| 15 | BR(M) 1d Red Diamond PLATFORM TICKETS: Rly Exec conditions: Abergele, Aylesbury Town, Bedford Midland Rd., Blackpool North, Caernarvon, Llandudno Junction, Manchester Central, Manchester Exch 2, Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester Lon Rd 5, Old Trafford, Preston, St Pancras A; BTC conds: Aylesbury Town, Blackpool South, Fleetwood, Manchester Exchange, Market Harborough, Morecambe Promenade, West End Lane, Willesden Junction 3. (21) | £70 |
| 16 | WOLVERHAMPTON CORPORATION TRAMWAYS: Geographical stage punch type TRAM TICKETS comprising 2d pink for the Bilston Section, 1½d green Exchange and 2½d blue for the Bilston & Willenhall Sections, together with 1½d white, 1½d mauve and 3½d white with 6 numerical stages. The Bilston line closed on 26/8/1928. All of the tickets have a little mounting paper on the backs, while the 2½d issue has small stain marks on the face. (6) | £70 |
| 17 | Ex-GER PALACE GATES BRANCH: A good selection of different ticket types from the three branch stations. 25 carry the LNER title and 8 are BR. All but two are unissued. (33) | £45 |
| 18 | LCC TRAMWAYS (43)/LPTB TRAMWAYS (35): A collection of punch type TRAM TICKETS loose mounted on card in an album, with historical notes. The tickets all bear codes 67 and 68 and are primarily from Services 55, 57 and 81, but also include Services 7E, 8E, 71, 77, 87 and 97. The condition is mainly VG. Note: This is the one of 18 lots in this auction that were part of a comprehensive collection of London Bus, Tram and Trolleybus tickets assembled over 50 years ago, which we have been offering since 2001 and has now come to an end. Be sure to look out for the other lots in this catalogue. (78) | £160 |
| 19 | SEVERN & WYE & SEVERN BRIDGE RAILWAY issued 3rd singles from Lydney Junction to Severn Bridge (/) and Severn Bridge to Lydney Town, both dated 17/10/1879 – the official opening date of the Severn Bridge. The latter print – which is only numbered ‘03’ – has the destination altered in ink to Sharpness. This indicates that the objective of the vast majority of people on this day was to cross the new Severn Bridge, and that the demand for singles from Severn Bridge to Sharpness exceeded the printed stock, necessitating the booking clerk to improvise. See also note at Lot 392. (2) | £60 |
| 20 | SOMERSET & DORSET RAILWAY JOINT COMMITTEE unissued whole Edmondsons, comprising: from Bath – 2 x Bicycle singles; Perambulator etc. single; bike return; bike, pram etc. return; 2 x perambulator etc. return; from Highbridge – bike return; from Burnham-on-Sea – 3rd single to Salisbury. All in VGC. (8) | £190 |
| 21 | DISTRICT RAILWAY whole Edmondson card singles all with skeleton letter overprints comprising 5 x 1st class, 8 x 2nd class, 6 x 3rd Parly; and 1 x 3rd. Issuing stations include West Kensington, Hammersmith DR, Sloane Square, South Kensington, Monument, Victoria DR, etc. Mostly VGC. (20) | £65 |
| 22 | BR(H) all issued whole mostly from closed stations in the Glasgow area including Anderston Cross, Ardrossan (Winton Pier), Barleith, Beith Town, Bridgeton Cross (LMS) (Trans), Crow Road, Darvel, Georgetown, Glasgow Cross, Glenboig, Langloan, Lugton, Maryhill Central, Parkhead Stadium, Strathaven Central, etc. (30) | £80 |
| 23 | SCOTTISH BUS OPERATORS: A selection of punch type BUS TICKETS comprising 11 Exchange tickets from Western S.M.T. Co. Ltd. (with different price and colour overprints), 5 numerical stage from The Pitlochry Motor Co. Ltd. (including one Exchange), a named stage 1d yellow from The Greenock Motor Services Co. and a named stage 4d blue from the Glasgow, Balloch and Loch Lomond Service (small portion missing where torn from pad). (18) | £55 |
| 24 | GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY early print G71 “Passenger Luggage” type LUGGAGE LABEL Newbury to Bridgewtr (sic). A scarce example in good condition despite a couple of slight nicks at the edges. (1) | £45 |
| 25 | BR(S) 1d Red Diamond PLATFORM TICKETS comprising SR transitional type (name at base): Ashford Kent 1, Canterbury East, Chatham, Dover Priory, Goudhurst; Rly Exec conditions: Addiscombe (faded), Ascot, Battersea Park, Brighton 2, Cannon Street 1, Chard Junc (0008), Collington Halt 2, Crofton Park, Fittleworth, Gillingham Kent 1, Grimstone & Frampton (0047), Shorncliffe 2, Waterloo 7; BTC conditions: Birchington-on-Sea, Branksome, Brasted, Brookwood, Crewkerne, Crystal Palace LL, Deal 1, Frimley, Grove Park, Windsor & Eton Riverside. (28) | £120 |
| 26 | LONDON INDEPENDENT BUS COMPANIES TAKEN OVER BY LPTB OR PREDECESSORS punch type BUS TICKETS including examples from Timpson’s (2 – taken over by Tilling in 1926), Renown (acquired by LPTB November 1933), Lancastrian (acquired by London Public Omnibus Co August 1927), Smith & Oates (“The Hawk Omnibus”) (acquired by London Public Omnibus Co September 1927), Burlington (2 – acquired by London Public Omnibus Co October 1927), Certainty (acquired by Public Omnibus Co August 1927), Hooker & Irvine (“Overland”) (acquired by London Public Omnibus Co August 1927), Bamford & Curtis (“B&C Our Bus”) (acquired by London Public Omnibus Co July 1927), Waverley (acquired by Henslow Bus Co June 1925), Triumph (acquired by LPTB November 1933). All tickets loose mounted on sheets with historical notes for each company. Mostly VGC. (11) | £85 |
| 27 | RE/BTC/BRB WHOLE EDMONDSONS: A collection of 120 all different parking tickets – mostly car, but with some motor cycle – the majority of which are from the Western Region. There is some duplication of stations, but not of individual prints. (120) | £150 |
| 28 | LGOC (13) LGOC & ASSOCIATED COS. (21): A mounted collection of named stage “Fareboard” punch type BUS TICKETS from Services 5 and 5A. Includes several earlier and scarcer values. (34) | £65 |
| 29 | GWR PRE-GROUPING mostly issued whole including from Barmouth, Calne (/), Cradley Heath & Cradley (2nd), Shepherd’s Bush, Stapleton Road, Totnes, Stourport, etc. Includes three Bike issues and an audit from Handsworth. Mostly VGC. (14) | £75 |
| 30 | NORTH LONDON RAILWAY (9) and N&SWJR (1) issued whole including (NLR) Barnsbury (renamed Caledonian Rd & Barnsbury 22/5/1893), Barnsbury & Caledonian Rd (appears to be an unofficial renaming), Camden Town, Canonbury, Haggerston (Bd), Highbury & Islington, Homerton (/), Shoreditch, etc., (N&SWJR) Richmond NL. Mostly VGC. (10) | £60 |
| 31 | GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY all issued Singles including issues from Enfield Town (/), Hertford, Highams Park & Hale End, Hoe Street, Leyton URO, various offices at Liverpool Street, Lower Edmonton, North Woolwich, South (Ferry Ticket - /), Victoria Park, Ware, West Green, etc. Condition varies, mostly good. (20) | £85 |
| 32 | SOUTHERN RAILWAY/BR(S/W) WEST OF SALISBURY all issued whole comprising SR (10) including Chard, Colyford, Littleham, Newton St Cyres, Ottery St Mary, Padstow, Sidmouth Junction, Tipton St Johns, etc., BR(S) (14) including Budleigh Salterton, Exmouth, Launceston, Littleham, Polsloe Bridge Halt, Sidmouth, Topsham, Wadebridge, etc., BR(W) (6) including Launceston, Okehampton, Padstow, Templecombe, etc. (30) | £140 |
| 33 | BURTON-UPON-TRENT CORPORATION TRAMWAYS 1½d and 2d named stage punch type TRAM TICKETS, together with a 1½d ‘Luggage & Parcel Ticket’ by Auto Tickets of Birkenhead headed BURTON CORPORATION TRAMS – also with named stages. All are an off-white colour. The 1½d ordinary ticket has slight foxing on the face; otherwise they are in good condition. (3) | £50 |
| 34 | GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY: Approximately 380 G77 and 70 G78 labels loose mounted in a stockbook. All different stations incl. some scarcer examples. Worth viewing. (450) | £90 |
| 35 | LNER PLATFORM TICKETS FROM STATIONS IN EAST ANGLIA: T2: Wickham Mkt A; T2A: Reedham A, Silvertown A; T3B: Maldon East & Heybridge A, Mellis A, St Botolphs A, Saxmundham A, Southend on Sea A, Thurston A, Waltham Cross & A DO; T3C: Newmarket DO A, Norwich Thorpe A, Southend-on-Sea East, Southend-on-Sea Vic A, South Tottenham, Woodham Ferrers A; Free (blue card): Wisbech. (18) | £100 |
| 36 | THE RHONDDA TRAMWAYS COMPANY LTD. early (c.1910) 1d white and 2d blue named stage punch type TRAM TICKETS by Williamson with skeleton “T” overprints – the latter showing full geographical journeys. The 1d issue is in VGC; 2d ticket is slightly creased at the bottom. (2) | £40 |
| 37 | BR / BTC (S): A collection of c.215 all different issued singles, mainly from the London suburban area in the late 1950s. There is a little duplication of some journeys, but not of the same prints. A few transitional prints included. Note that while the description to Lot 377 is similar to this one, the tickets in that lot are all different prints. (c.215) | £130 |
| 38 | LPTB TROLLEYBUSES (20)/LT TROLLEYBUSES (50)/LONDON TRANSPORT T&T (20): A collection of punch type TROLLEYBUS TICKETS loose mounted on card in an album, with historical notes. The tickets bear codes WH and 183 and are from Services 695, 687, 697 and 699 in pre-war, wartime and post-war periods. Condition is mainly VG. See note at Lot 18. (90) | £50 |
| 39 | LMS/BR(M) CHESTER, CREWE, WHITCHURCH AND SHREWSBURY whole LMS - 6 issued including Broxton, Malpas, Waverton, etc., 2 audit from Calverley, Worleston; BR - 12 issued including Beeston Castle & Tarporley, Malpas, Nantwich, Tattenhall, Waverton, Wem, Wrenbury, etc; 3 audit including Hadnall, Yorton, etc. (24) | £75 |
| 40 | GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY: A mauve 2½d punch type Rail Motor Cars ticket for the service between Halesowen and Dudley in pre-grouping days. Names include Coombes Holloway Halt, which was open from 1/7/1905 to 5/12/1927, and Netherton – presumably a shortening of Dudley South Side & Netherton, which became Blowers Green on 1/8/1921. (1) | £90 |
| 41 | LM&SR WHOLE EDMONDSONS WITH INSERT ADVERTS: A collection of 5 issued and 15 audit tickets. 19 of the prints are different, and there are 19 different adverts. Twelve of the issuing stations are closed, Including Blisworth, Edge Lane, Golcar, and Norbury & Ellaston. (20) | £40 |
| 42 | GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY WEST MIDLANDS: A collection of 53 issued pre-nationalisation prints from all different stations/issuing points. Too many to itemise, but includes closed stations such as Bilston GW, Daisy Bank & Bradley, Dudley, Dunstall Park, Great Bridge, Priestfield, Round Oak, Stratford on Avon Race Course Platform, Swan Village, Tipton, and Wednesbury. (53) | £170 |
| 43 | HANTS & DORSET MOTOR SERVICES LTD. A collection of 54 punch type BUS TICKETS, together with 30 insert Setrights and 7 machine issues. (91) | £20 |
| 44 | LONDON & SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY type L93/3 LUGGAGE LABEL the left half printed on mauve paper, the right half on white to Bickleigh (Via Lidford and Yeoford). A rare label, the only one known of this type, and in VGC. (1) | £260 |
| 45 | GWR T3 PLATFORM TICKETS: Bordesley, Bristol TM F, Chard, Exeter, Evesham, Hayes & Harlington A, Kidderminster BO, Maidenhead, Marylebone 1, Oxford U T, Paddington 1, 2, 3 and 5 (two different), Taunton D, Uxbridge Vine Street, Wolverhampton. (18) | £75 |
| 46 | LONDON TRANSPORT GREEN LINE COACHES Wartime Returns: A selection of all different tickets from the short lived route numbered issues in use only from April 1941 to September 1942, when the network was withdrawn. See also Lot 368. (14) | £140 |
| 47 | LM&SR: A selection of 150 whole Edmondsons, of which 50 are issued and 100 audit. Includes a good number of closed stations in both groups. (150) | £150 |
| 48 | LCC TRAMWAYS all different selection of geographical punch type TRAM TICKETS from a good variety of routes including depot issues from Clapham, Jews Road, Streatham, Leyton & West Ham, etc., at values up to 6d including Workman and Cheap Day Fares; plus three “All Day” issues dating from 1929 and 1931. Mostly VGC. (48) | £55 |
| 49 | DIDCOT TO NEWBURY AND WINCHESTER comprising GWR issued from 2 x Burghclere, Newbury, Kings Worthy, 2 x Winchester GW, Worthy Down Platform; audit from Winchester Chesil, 2 x Winchester GW; SR audit from Winchester GW; BR (S/W) issued from Burghclere, Compton, Didcot, Hampstead Norris, Hermitage, Kingsworthy, Newbury, Pinewood Halt, 2 x Upton & Blewbury; audit from Kingsworthy, Winchester Chesil, Upton & Blewbury, Worthy Down Halt. (25) | £110 |
| 50 | SOUTH EASTERN & CHATHAM RAILWAY: CRYSTAL PALACE HIGH LEVEL LINE. Issued singles from Crystal Palace High Level & Upper Norwood – also with ‘(N.S.)’ and ‘(S.S.)’ – Honor Oak (/), Lordship Lane, Upper Sydenham. (6) | £85 |
| 51 | LNER CENTRAL SCOTLAND: Issued whole Edmondsons comprising Bonnybridge (cl. 8/6/1953), Bridgeton Cross (r/n 1/1954), Charing Cross, Coatbridge Sunnyside, Cowlairs, Craigendoran, Edinburgh Waverley (to North Leith – cl. 7/4/1952), Falkirk Camelon, Glasgow Charing Cross, Hamilton (cl. 15/9/1952), Hyndland, Jordanhill (to Victoria Park Whiteinch – r/n 13/7/1925), Kirkbank (cl. 13/8/1948), Kirkintilloch, Lasswade (cl. 10/9/1951), Lennoxtown (cl. 1/10/1951), Lenzie, Maryhill (cl. 2/4/1951), Menstrie (cl. 1/11/1954), Uphall (cl. 9/1/1956). (20) | £80 |
| 52 | BR(S) SALISBURY TO EXETER AND BRANCHES: A collection of issued whole Edmondsons comprising 7 x Axminster (including to Lyme Regis), Broad Clyst, 2 x Colyton, Crewkerne, 20 x Exeter Central, Gillingham Dorset, 3 x Honiton, Lyme Regis, 6 x Pinhoe, Salisbury, Seaton, 3 x Seaton Junction, 6 x Sidmouth Junction, 3 x Templecombe, 7 x Whimple, 3 x Yeovil Junction, plus 2 singles Waterloo to Sidmouth Junction. (68) | £80 |
| 53 | LGOC & ASSOCIATED Cos fareboard geographical punch type BUS TICKETS from services 1 to 30 at fares between 1d and 5d. Majority in excellent condition. (25) | £30 |
| 54 | LONDON TILBURY & SOUTHEND RAILWAY. Two 3” x 4” First Class card Free Passes (one shown as ‘Local’) made out from Fenchurch Street to Shoeburyness for members of the Press in 1891 and 1892, together with a GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY 3½” x 3” Third Class Contract Ticket, also on card, available between ‘Alexandra Palace, Muswell Hill, or Wood Green and King’s Cross’ for Seven Days ending 17/8/1902. (3) | £130 |
| 55 | SOUTHERN RAILWAY T3 Red Diamond PLATFORM TICKETS from stations beginning with the letters “C” to “N”: Cowden, Cayford, Crowhurst, Crystal Palace HL, Eden Park, Forest Row, Freshwater, Hildenborough, Honor Oak, Horsley, Horsmonden, Hounslow 1, Lee 1, Lyme Regis, Martin Mill, Midhurst, Mortehoe, Newport, Northfleet, North Tawton. (20) | £140 |
| 56 | EDINBURGH STREET TRAMWAYS CO (LEITH SECTION): An early roll type HORSE TRAM TICKET from this early company, most of which was purchased by the Corporation in 1893 and became part of the Edinburgh & District Tramways Co. However, the Leith section continued in existence until 1904 when its lines were purchased by Leith Corporation. (1) | £130 |
| 57 | POTTERIES, SHREWSBURY & NORTH WALES RAILWAY unissued 1st return Maesbrook to Crewe Green in excellent condition. The PS&NW closed on 22/6/1880, but re-opened in 1911/12 as the Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Railway. (1) | £60 |
| 58 | GLASGOW CORPORATION TRANSPORT named stage "geographical" punch type TRAM TICKETS from routes with codes AD, BU, FL, P. R, and CH. Most are 5 inches (12.5 cm) long, and inevitably, therefore, some have minor creases and other damage, but condition is generally quite good. (12) | £40 |
| 59 | LMS/BR(M) NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE lines all issued whole comprising - LMS (18) including from Alton, Bosley, Denstone, Kingsley & F., Leek, Leigh (Staffs), Meir, Mow Cop & SG., Normacot, Pipe Gate, Stockton Brook, Sudbury Staffs, Uttoxeter, etc., BR (11) including Alton Staffs, Burslem, Consall, Creswell Staffs, Egginton, Longport, Tutbury, etc. (29) | £110 |
| 60 | NEATH & BRECON RAILWAY issued Revised Fare 3rd single Craigynos (Penwyllt) to Severn Sisters, dated 10/7/1931. (1) | £80 |
| 61 | PARIS METRO: A collection of 129 all different issues, of which over half can be said to be old – a number dating from the first decade of the 20th Century. (129) | £70 |
| 62 | BR/BTC/BRB(W) GLOUCESTER TO CHALFORD: A collection of 46 issued whole Edmondsons and 78 rail motor tickets for journeys on this section of line, most of which cover the various halts that existed until 2/11/1964. Some tickets are for the same journeys, but it will be noted that in each case there are printing variations. The Edmondsons comprise 3 x Brimscombe, 3 x Chalford, 8 x Gloucester Central, 2 x Stroud, 1 x Stonehouse Burdett Road, 25 x Stroud, and 4 from ‘off line’ origins to Stroud. (124) | £80 |
| 63 | BROWN’S MOTOR CO. (TUNSTALL) LTD. A collection of 33 numeric stage punch type BUS TICKETS, with 5 title variations. Includes reference to High Street, Scotia Road, and Swan Garages. (33) | £80 |
| 64 | GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY – BUFF 3RD SINGLES comprising: Pre-grouping – from Ealing Broadway (Revised fare), Paddington 1 (to Old Oak Lane Halt). Pre-nationalisation – from Cholsey & M’sford, Clapham Junc., Heathfield, High Wycombe, Litchfield Hants, Llanidloes, Monmouth Troy, Paddington 1, Rhayader, Shrewsbury (/), Twyford, Wellington Sa., Wolverhampton. All of the tickets are properly dated, mainly in the 1930s, but three are from the 1920s. (15) | £110 |
| 65 | BR/BTC (N & H) PLATFORM TICKETS: BR (N) transitional (name at base): Hull 5; BR(N) 1d red diamond Rly Exec conds: Leeds City 5, Northallerton, Scarborough Cent 1, Stockton; BR(N) 1d red diamond BTC conds: Haltwhistle, Keighley, Whitby Town; BTC(N) 1d red diamond: Gateshead East, Huddersfield, Leeds City 2 (2 different), Malton, Manors East, Monkwearmouth, Stockton-on-Tees, Tyne Dock, Whitley Bay; BTC(N) 2d red diamond: Malton, Monkseaton 1,Whitby Town; BR(H) 1d red diamond RE conds: Edinburgh Waverley 1, Glasgow Buchanan St, Haymarket; BR(H) 1d red diamond BTC conds: Edinburgh Waverley; BR(H) 2d red diamond BTC conds: Edinburgh Princes St; BTC(H) 2d red diamond: Coatbridge Sunnyside; BTC(H) 3d red diamond: Larbert. (28) | £110 |
| 66 | SOUTHPORT TRAMWAYS CO. LTD. 1d mauve geographical stage punch type TRAM TICKET for the Cambridge Road route, together with a 2d brown 1" x 2½” card coupon for a 2d fare. The company’s lines were taken over by Southport Corporation in 1918. (2) | £40 |
| 67 | GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY issued pre-grouping 3rd single (o/s Revised Fare) Monmouth Troy to St. Braviels & Llandogo. The destination name only applied from 1/5/1909 to 9/3/1927. (1) | £40 |
| 68 | LONDON TRANSPORT (BUSES) all different named-stage punch type BUS TICKETS from Routes 234 / 234A, 200 and 206 in wartime and post-war periods. A selection of tickets is offered to show changes in stages and route patterns during the periods covered. Condition is mostly VG. See note at Lot 18. (106) | £90 |
| 69 | BR(W): A collection of 209 whole Edmondsons, of which 77 are issued. Includes closed and destaffed stations. (209) | £110 |
| 70 | LB&SCR all issued whole including from Balham, Carshalton, Croydon West, Crystal Palace Station, East Grinstead LL, Forest Hill, Horsham, New Croydon, North Dulwich, Norwood Jun & South Norwood (whole Rtn), Red Hill Junc., Streatham Hill (whole Rtn), Sutton Station (Motor Car Service), Three Bridges, etc. Mostly VGC. (25) | £80 |
| 71 | GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY/BR(W) NORTH AND MID WALES comprising GWR – issued from Aberystwyth, Dovey Jnc., Llanymynech, Rossett, Tinkers Green Halt; audit/undated from Bangor-on-Dee, Cefn, 2 x Chester GW, Commins Coch Halt, Ellesmere, Gobowen, Oswestry. BR – issued from Bangor on Dee, 2 x Cefn, 2 x Ellesmere, Llansantffraid, Llanfyllin, Marchwiel, Oswestry, 2 x Overton on Dee; audit/undated from Bryngwyn, Carreghofa Halt, Wrexham General, together with 1 GWR and 2 BR rail motor tickets, an issued GWR Holiday Season Ticket from Aberystwyth, and an unissued season from Bangor-on-Dee. Closed stations and a spelling error in the destinations. (32) | £130 |
| 72 | BARRY RAILWAY issued 3rd Parly singles from Barry to Abergavenny GW and Barry Dock to Caerleon GW, together with an issued 3rd single Barry Island to Cadoxton. The fronts of the tickets are good/VG, but the first two have large glue marks on the backs from previous mounting. (3) | £40 |
| 73 | BIRMINGHAM TRAM AND BUS TICKET MISCELLANY: A collection of punch type tickets comprising 22 x Birmingham Corporation Tramways, 39 x Birmingham Corporation Tramways and Omnibus Department, 23 x Birmingham City Transport, 102 x The Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co. Ltd. All are different, and almost all are properly issued. (186) | £160 |
| 74 | SCOTTISH PRE-GROUPING COMPANIES collection of LUGGAGE LABELS comprising approx 500 examples from Caledonian, Dundee & Arbroath, Great North of Scotland, Highland and North British railways. Some duplication noted and a number stuck together which will require soaking to separate. (Qty) | £20 |
| 75 | SOUTHERN RAILWAY T1C red blob PLATFORM TICKET from Ford [Sussex], dated 27/4/1940. There is a little Bd from previous mounting. (1) | £45 |
| 76 | NORTH METROPOLITAN TRAMWAYS Co. Whiting printed geographical punch type HORSE TRAM TICKETS comprising 1d blue “Excess Fare”, 2d yellow Aldgate – Poplar, 3d mauve “All The Way.” The system was taken over by the Metropolitan Electric Tramways in 1902 and electrified thereafter. (3) | £60 |
| 77 | SOUTHERN RAILWAY - TRANSITIONAL AND EXCESS whole Edmondsons comprising 15 transitional issues including Ashtead, Brighton, Clapham Junction, C Palace St’n LL, Forest Hill, Fratton, Gipsy Hill, Godalming, Richmond N, etc., plus 11 Excess Fare tickets including from Caterham, Dorking North, Leatherhead, Oxted, Red Hill, Sevenoaks (Tubs Hill) Woking, etc., mostly dated in the 1930s. (26) | £60 |
| 78 | LANCASHIRE TRAMWAY, LIGHT RAILWAY AND OMNIBUS SELECTION. Six geographical Bell Punch TRAM/BUS TICKETS comprising 3 different prints from Nelson Corporation Tramways, 1 from Preston Corporation Tramways, 1 from Colne Corporation Light Railways and 1 from Nelson Corporation Omnibuses. (6) | £130 |
| 79 | FURNESS RAILWAY: An issued 1st single Askam to Dalton, together with issued 3rd singles from Broughton, Lake Side NB (to Kents Bank, numbered ‘00’ 6/12/1905), and Whitehaven, and audit tickets from Coniston (Circular Tour), Ulverston (blank bike). (6) | £95 |
| 80 | GWR SOUTH WALES issued whole comprising 25 from closed stations including Aberbargoed, Aberthaw, Creigiau, Cwmsyfiog, Efail Isaf & Llantwit Vardre, Hirwaun, Maesycwmmer, Pengam Mon., Rhoose, Risca, St Athan Halt, Trelewis Platform, Ynyshir, etc., and 5 from open stations. (30) | £120 |
| 81 | L&SWR LONDON AREA 1ST AND 2ND CLASS SINGLES comprising 5 x 1st and 7 x 2nd including issues from Clapham Junc P, East Putney, North Camp, Tulse Hill, Gunnersbury, Ravenscourt Park, Shepherds Bush (closed 5/6/1916) etc. Condition varies, mostly good. (12) | £100 |
| 82 | LMS/BR(M/N) EX MIDLAND LINES BRADFORD TO APPLEBY AND BRANCHES whole comprising LMS - 12 issued including Bingley, Earby, Gargrave, Oakworth, Saltaire Skipton, Thornton-in-Craven, etc; 2 audit. BR - 16 issued including Appleby West, Bentham, Clapham (Yorks), Culgaith, Giggleswick, Haworth, Hellifield, Kirkstall, Long Preston, Settle, etc. (30) | £85 |
| 83 | LPTB selection of fareboard geographical punch type BUS TICKETS from Services 6 to 102 at fares between 1d and 6d. All different. (50) | £30 |
| 84 | SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY “Passenger Luggage” LUGGAGE LABEL “Dover to London Bridge No. 38” contained within a bold oblong box with the company title and legend on the outside, all printed on blue paper. An early registered luggage type label. One corner missing, but in good condition otherwise. Appears to have been cut from a piece of paper. (1) | £45 |
| 85 | SR/BR/BTC(S) Red Diamond PLATFORM TICKETS: SR T2A Bordon, Hawkhurst, Kingscote, Slinfold; T2B: Horsted Keynes, Newick & Chailey, West Hoathly; T3: Freshwater, Horsmonden; BR(S) transitional (name at base): Barcombe; BTC 2d: Baynards, Bramber, Hailsham, Henfield, Horsted Keynes, Partridge Green, Rowfant, Slinfold, Southwater, Steyning. (20) | £75 |
| 86 | LONDON TRANSPORT TRAMWAYS mostly geographical punch type TRAM TICKETS with a good variety of route and fare combinations. Many long prints noted and all appear to be different. (37) | £40 |
| 87 | LNER DARLINGTON TO PENRITH whole comprising 11 issued including from Barnard Castle, Bowes, Broomielaw, Pierce Bridge (two with pencil dates), Warcop, etc; 1 x audit; BR 11 issued including Appleby East, Barras, Cliburn, Kirkby Stephen East, Lartington, etc; 1 audit. (24) | £75 |
| 88 | SOUTHEND-ON-SEA CORPORATION TRAMWAYS 2d yellow and 2½d blue named stage punch type TRAM TICKETS, together with 3 named / numerical stage punch type and one insert Setright BUS TICKETS from WESTCLIFF-ON-SEA MOTOR SERVICES LTD., and 4 used insert Setrights from CITY COACH CO. LTD, two of which are for the company’s London to Southend service. (10) | £55 |
| 89 | COUNTY DONEGAL RAILWAYS JOINT COMMITTEE: A selection of 34 issued whole Edmondsons from 18 different stations, together with 31 issued whole from the SLIGO LEITRIM & NORTH COUNTIES RAILWAY, covering 11 different stations. Three severed halves are also included in the lot. (65wh 3hlf) | £65 |
| 90 | GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY issued pre-grouping whole Edmondsons from Cardiff U, Chepstow (to Tintern), Cirencester (bike), Exeter U (bike, etc.), Llandilo (to Newcastle Emlyn), 2 x Mortimer (1 ordinary; 1 bike), Mutley (cl. 3/7/1939; to Yealmpton cl. 7/7/1930, then open 11/1941 to 10/1947), Neath (to Sirhowy; Bd), Paddington (to Credenhill), Paddington 1 (to Kearne Bridge), Plymouth MB (to Bittaford Platform). (12) | £85 |
| 91 | BR(M) SOUTH OF MANCHESTER: A collection of 50 issued tickets from all different stations. Includes Bollington, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Heaton Norris, Higher Poynton, High Lane, Longsight, Macclesfield Hibel Road, Middlewood Higher, Stockport Tiviot Dale – all now closed. (50) | £85 |
| 92 | MAINLY PRE-GROUPING END OF COLLECTION MISCELLANY comprising 8 issued and 5 audit Midland Railway, 6 issued LT&SR (2 x /), 1 issued GER, 1 issued GN&GE Joint (Godmanchester). 1 issued M&GN (/), 1 audit (untitled) S&K Joint, plus 1 Irish audit, 8 issued BR, 4 Ultimatic, and 11 pre-grouping severed halves (9 x Midland, 1 x CLC, 1 x MR NCC). (36wh 11hlf) | £130 |
| 93 | STOCKPORT CORPORATION ‘SCT’-titled named stage punch type TRAM TICKETS comprising 2 x 1d white (one with skeleton fare overprint), 1½d pink, and 2d blue (slight fading bottom), together with MANCHESTER CORPORATION ‘MCT’-titled name stage 1d white issue for Route A (poor) and a numerical stage MCTD issue. (6) | £35 |
| 94 | LONDON CHATHAM & DOVER RAILWAY selection of LUGGAGE LABELS comprising type L57 on white paper (2) to Deal, Walmer; type L58 on pink paper (1) to Sevenoaks (Tub’s Hill) and type L56 on blue paper (21) including to Canterbury, Denmark Hill, Dover H., Greenwich, Herne Bay, Hothfield, Kemsing, Lewisham Rd., Loughboro’ J., Maidstone, Rochester, Shepherd’s W., St Mary Cray, St Paul’s, Upper Sydenham, Westgate-on-Sea, etc. All in good/VGC. (24) | £350 |
| 95 | BR/BTC/BRB AA PLATFORM TICKETS comprising 200 Midland Region and 124 Western Region. Four BR, 61 BTC and 53 BRB are earlier horizontal prints, while 110 are later BRB horizontal prints with station name printed vertically down left side. The remaining 96 are BRB vertical prints. (324) | £95 |
| 96 | DERBY CORPORATION TRAMWAYS named stage punch type TRAM TICKETS comprising 1d white from the Burton Road Route, 1½d light brown from the Ashbourne Road Route, 2d pink from the Normanton Road Route, a 1d green Workmen ticket with stages for all routes, and a 4d blue Universal issue with ticket types down the sides. (5) | £60 |
| 97 | LONDON AREA PRE-GROUPING MISCELLANY comprising LT&S – audit two-piece returns Plaistow to Crystal Palace and Wood Lane, including admission (Bd); issued single Woodgrange Park; Midland – issued 3rd singles from Elstree, Kentish Town, St. Albans; GW&GC Joint – issued single High Wycombe (actual fare); Met & Midland – issued single Farringdon Street; T&HJ Rly – issued single Harringay Park. (9) | £95 |
| 98 | LGOC & ASSOCIATED COS (14) / LPTB (34) all different ‘fareboard’ punch type BUS TICKETS from Routes 193 & 494, 193/194/494, 193 & 194, 194, 197 and 166. The tickets are loose mounted on card in an album, with historical notes. Condition is mostly VG with some unusual / rare issues noted. See note at Lot 18. (48) | £110 |
| 99 | BRB (W) SOMERSET, DEVON AND CORNWALL: A selection of whole Edmondson singles all properly issued between 1964 and 1971 and in VGC. Stations of origin are Bere Alston, Callington, Camelford, Dunster, Exmouth, Halwill, 2 x Holsworthy, Launceston, Launceston South, 2 x Okehampton, St. Ives, Saltash, Topsham, Totnes, Umberleigh, Wadebridge, Watchet, Williton. (20) | £95 |
| 100 | SOUTH WEST & MID RLY COMPANIES’ SOMERSET & DORSET JOINT LINE (so headed) Third Class Free Pass on yellow card (2¾” x 3⅝”) dated April, May and June 1920 and available between any station in favour of “Mr A.J. Baker” who was a relief signalman on the line. Overstamped “And by Goods Trains.” In VGC apart from a corner (/). (1) | £100 |
| 101 | PRE-LPTB MISCELLANY comprising 1 x Baker Street & Waterloo Rly, 3 x Central London Rly (inc. Post Office – r/n 1/2/1927), 2 x City & South London Rly, 5 x District Rly, 9 x LER, 6 x Metropolitan Rly, together with 7 severed halves, paper tickets from the East London Rly Jt. Committee and Metropolitan Rly, and a 1933 season ticket from the Metropolitan District Rly. (26wh 7hlf 3 paper) | £50 |
| 102 | GREAT CENTRAL RAILWAY issued 3rd singles from London (Marylebone) to ‘Harrow-on the-Hill’ and West Wycombe (/), together with a 1st single Marylebone to Aylesbury (Met&GC), and an early LNER 3rd single Marylebone to Gerrards Cross (dated 12/9/1924). (4) | £45 |
| 103 | SOUTH OF ENGLAND TRAMWAY MISCELLANY: Named stage punch type TRAM TICKETS comprising 2d blue from BEXLEY COUNCIL TRAMWAYS AND DARTFORD LIGHT RAILWAYS, 1½d green/yellow from BRIGHTON CORPORATION TRAMWAYS, 1½d green from GOSPORT & FAREHAM TRAMWAYS (slight foxing) and a 2d blue roll ticket from MAIDSTONE CORPORATION TRAMWAYS. (4) | £75 |
| 104 | LMS FORMER L&Y LINES AROUND MANCHESTER all issued whole including from Bess o’th’ Barn, Bradley Fold, Failsworth, Heaton Park, Haywood, Kearsley, Middleton (Lancs), Miles Platting, Milnrow, Moston, Moorside & W., Oldham (Mumps), Royton, Salford, Woodlands Road, etc. Mostly VGC. (30) | £110 |
| 105 | BR/BTC/BRB PLATFORM TICKETS MISCELLANY from a mix of regions: 6 x BR 1d; 10 x BTC 1d; 31 x BTC 2d; 3 x BTC Free; 2 x BRB 2d; 15 x BRB 3d; 7 x BRB red diamond unpriced; 1 x BRB Free; 3 x BRB Multiprinter; 6 x BRB green diamond unpriced; 3 x BRB / British Rail commemorative. (87) | £90 |
| 106 | LONDON TRANSPORT BUS NO.134 (Potters Bar - Victoria / Pimlico): 23 ‘Fareboard’ type BUS TICKETS – 15 with LPTB title in full; 8 titled London Transport (Buses) – together with 4 wartime / early post-war geographicals titled LONDON TRANSPORT BUSES. Values 1d to 8d. (27) | £30 |
| 107 | BR(N) NORTH EAST OF ENGLAND all issued whole - 10 from closed stations; several to closed stations; other origins now de-staffed. Includes transitional prints. Stations include Alnwick, Barnard Castle, Blackhall Colliery, Brampton Junction (faded), Brancepeth, Castleton (Yorks), Darlington (Bank Top), Gateshead West, Great Ayton, Haydon Bridge, Heaton, High Shields, Lambley, Leeming Bar, Newcastle (Tyne Commission Quay), Prudhoe, Ripon, Willington Quay, etc. (40) | £85 |
| 108 | LONDON INDEPENDENT BUS OPERATORS OF THE 1920s: A selection of numerical stage BUS TICKETS from 13 different operators, comprising Our Bus, Edward Paul Ltd., Premier Omnibus Co. Ltd., C.H. Pickup, Prince Coaches, R. N. [R. Neal], St. George Omnibus Co. Ltd., Shamrock Traction Co. Ltd., The Silver Omnibuses, Silver Star, Skylark Omnibus Co., Sphere Omnibus Co., Sunbeam Omnibus. (13) | £75 |
| 109 | GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY BOARD: A collection of 44 issued, 11 pre-dated (mainly used) and 71 audit whole Edmondsons, together with 8 severed halves. Ballinamallard, Clones, Dromore Road, Lisbellaw, Lisnaskea, Omagh, Pettigo, and Trillick are included in the issued tickets. (126wh 8hlf) | £80 |
| 110 | GREAT NORTH OF SCOTLAND RAILWAY issued singles from Craigellachie (poor), Gartly (soiled) and Nethy Bridge (minor Bd). (3) | £200 |
| 111 | BR(E) mostly audit whole from East Anglia stations comprising examples from the Mildenhall branch and rural branches in mid-Norfolk including from Bottisham & Lode, Burwell, County School, Middleton Towers, Quy, Soham, Swaffhamprior, Wells-Next-The-Sea, etc; Essex branches including Marks Tey – Haverhill – Cambridge, also Fambridge, Harwich Pier, Langford & Ulting, Rayne, Sible & Castle Hedingham, Takeley, Wickham Bishops, Yeldham, etc; Fenland including Black Bank, Coldham, Cowbit, Dersingham, Hilgay, Oakington, Stow Bardolph, Sutton, Wimblington, Wolferton, etc. (60) | £110 |
| 112 | BR(M) all issued whole from closed stations in South Lancashire including from Bacup, Broadfields, Clayton Bridge, Clough Fold, Ellenbrook, Golborne, Haslingden, Helmshore, Kenyon Junction, Park (Lancs), Ramsbottom, Rawtenstall, Seedley, Smithy Bridge, Summerseat, Stubbins, Walsdon, Worsley, etc. (30) | £70 |
| 113 | LCC TRAMWAYS geographical punch type TRAM TICKETS from a mixture of routes comprising 13 x 1d; 4 x 2d. Selection includes 3 x Cheap Midday Fare (including “Child”), Transfer and 2d Two Journey Workman’s Ticket. (17) | £28 |
| 114 | LONDON & SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY mixed collection of LUGGAGE LABELS all to destinations off the LSWR system including a small selection of coloured types, but the vast majority L92 and L93 series on white paper to stations beginning with the letters “A” through to “L”. Some rarities and misspellings included. All in good/VGC. See also lot 294. (128) | £250 |
| 115 | SOUTHERN RAILWAY PLATFORM TICKETS: Red Blob: T1B: Penshurst; T1C: Sutton Bingham, Umberleigh, Worplesdon; T1D: Nutfield, Westenhanger; Red Diamond: T2A: Ropley, Whitchurch; T2B: Horsted Keynes, Portsmouth & S’sea, Syon Lane, West Hoathly, Wilton (faded /); T3: Brighton, Horsmonden, Ottery St Mary, Oxshott, Portsmouth & Southsea 3, Semley, Victoria 1. (20) | £75 |
| 116 | LONDON TRANSPORT GREEN LINE COACHES: A small collection of 14 Wartime Return BUS TICKETS from routes 2, 3/5, 18, 20, 21/23/23A and 34/35. Condition is good / VG. See note at Lot 18. (14) | £140 |
| 117 | PRE-GROUPING SEVERED HALVES: A collection of 154 issued tickets from 23 different concerns, the main ones being GWR (50), L&NWR (20), L&SWR (15), NLR (10), S&ECR (8), LB&SCR (7). Includes some interesting types and stations. (154hlf) | £110 |
| 118 | CROSVILLE GREY MOTOR SERVICES: A selection of 7 different numeric stage punch type BUS TICKETS by Williamson, together with 38 from CROSVILLE MOTOR SERVICES Ltd. one of which includes the LMS prefix. (45) | £110 |
| 119 | GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY: A 7d brown punch type Rail Motor Car ticket for use at halts between Newnham, Cinderford and Drybrook, which were opened in 1907. Includes Ruddle Road Halt, which closed on 30/4/1917 and Whimsey, Steam Mills Crossing, Nailbridge, and Drybrook Halts which closed on 7/7/1930. Also included in the lot is a 1d Child print by Williamson which is possibly late pre-grouping, and 1½d, 2½d and 3d prints from the post-Grouping period, all of which include the halts closed in 1930. (5) | £100 |
| 120 | GREAT WESTERN & METROPOLITAN RAILWAYS JOINT issued pre-grouping whole Edmondsons from Hammersmith, Notting Hill & Ladbroke Grove (renamed 1/6/1919), Shepherd’s Bush, Westbourne Park, Wood Lane Exhibition Station (closed 1/11/1914 /), together with METROPOLITAN & GREAT WESTERN RAILWAYS post-grouping issues from Goldhawk Road, Latimer Road, Shepherd’s Bush, Westbourne Park, and Wood Lane. (10) | £55 |
| 121 | BR EDMONDSONS – UNUSUAL TYPES including Adult Camping Party, Commercial, Conference (including a child return!), Dayrider, Excess Fare Forces Leave, Group Travel, Holiday Period, Mercantile, Mid Week (Overnight), Nightrider, Rail & Boat, Rail & River, etc. (30) | £65 |
| 122 | BRECON & MERTHYR RAILWAY issued 3rd Parly single Merthyr to Hay (Mid) – full date illegible; glue marks back – together with an audit 3rd Parly single Pontsarn to Talyllyn. (2) | £45 |
| 123 | LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT BOARD ‘Fareboard’ BUS TICKETS from Services 284 (1d to 6d inclusive) and 285 (1d), together with 25 LONDON TRANSPORT BUSES titled geographical tickets for night services 289, 290, 291, 295 and 296. (32) | £20 |
| 124 | TRANSPORT TOKENS: A collection of 114, mainly celluloid, tokens from c.25 different concerns, including Aberdare, Belfast, Blackburn, Bournemouth, Colchester, Darlington, Ipswich, Leeds. Middlesbrough, St. Helens, Warrington and Wigan. (114) | £25 |
| 125 | BR(E) PLATFORM TICKETS: 1d Transitional no diamond (name at base): Kelvedon, King’s Cross A and LS, Lincoln Central, Liverpool Street A, Southminster, Welwyn Garden City WS, Stratford, Wroxham (faded); 1d red diamond (Rly Exec conds): Nth Woolwich (faded), Peterboro East, Peterborough North, Romford (two different series), Stratford, Tilbury Riverside; 1d red diamond (BTC conds): Colchester UO, Peterborough E, Spalding Town, Stratford Market. (20) | £70 |
| 126 | THE HARTLEPOOL ELECTRIC TRAMWAYS 2d blue punch type TRAM TICKET covering journeys between Hartlepool and West Hartlepool and Seaton and Church Street. The company was authorised to rebuild the defunct 3’ 6” gauge Hartlepool Steam Tramways using overhead electric power and was opened on 19th May 1896 finally reaching nearly 7 miles in length. West Hartlepool Corporation took over the system in August 1912. The system finally succumbed to trolleybus replacement when the Seaton Carew line closed on 25th March 1927. A rare example, but with a little glue on the back from previous mounting. (1) | £110 |
| 127 | SOUTHERN RAILWAY: A collection of 100 issued whole Edmondsons. Noted in the lot are a single to Shooter’s Hill & Eltham Park (renamed 26/9/1927), a single from Swale Halt, a ticket for Totalisator Staff, and transitional prints. (100) | £250 |
| 128 | LONDON TRANSPORT (BUSES) all different named-stage punch type BUS TICKETS from Routes 194 and 197 in wartime and post-war periods. A selection of tickets is offered to show changes in stages and route patterns during the periods covered. Condition is mostly good / VG. See note at Lot 18. (105) | £120 |
| 129 | RYE & CAMBER TRAMWAYS CO. LTD. A light brown 3d roll ticket for a 3rd Class single from Golf Links. The line operated between 1895 and 1939. (1) | £35 |
| 130 | BR(W) SOMERSET, DEVON AND CORNWALL all issued including 15 closed stations. Issuing stations include Bere Alston, Bideford, Chacewater, Durston, East Anstey, Ilfracombe, Ilminster, Kingskerswell, Langport West, Okehampton, Tavistock North, etc. (25) | £80 |
| 131 | LOUTH AND SURROUNDING AREA: GNR (2) issues from Louth (dated 13/8/1886), Mablethorpe; LNER (4) issued including Bardney’ Thorpe Culvert; LNER (13) audit/undated, including three to stations on the line; 4 LNER halves; 4 BR halves. (18wh/8hlf) | £30 |
| 132 | SOUTHERN RAILWAY RACE TRAFFIC: Two issued and 6 unclipped pre-dated / audit whole Edmondsons, comprising a Luncheon Train seat ticket Waterloo to Ascot on 19/6/1930, two Totalisator Staff singles (issued / pre-dated 1934 / 1937), plus miscellaneous ‘Races’ issues for meetings at Ascot, Epsom, Gatwick and Plumpton. (8) | £75 |
| 133 | SOUTH AFRICAN TRAMWAYS comprising 6 punch and 2 other types from JOHANNESBURG MUNICIPAL TRAMWAYS, 3 punch tickets from the PORT ELIZABETH ELECTRIC TRAMWAYS, a punch ticket from METROPOLITAN TRAMWAYS CO. LTD / THE CAMP’S BAY TRAMWAY CO. and another punch ticket from EAST LONDON METROPOLITAN TRAMWAYS, printed in the 1920s. (13) | £22 |
| 134 | LONDON & SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY type L91/4 LUGGAGE LABELS all on yellow paper to West Country destinations (13) including Ashburton, Bristol Via Templecombe, Dawlish, Horrabridge, Mutley, Penzance, Silverton B&E Via Barnstaple and Dulverton GWR, Tiverton, Totnes, etc; also to Somerset & Dorset Joint Line destinations (9) including Bath Via Templecombe, Chilcompton, Henstridge, Highbridge, Shepton Mallet, Shillingstone, Sturminster, etc. Mostly in VGC. (22) | £520 |
| 135 | SOUTHERN RAILWAY T1D PLATFORM TICKET from Victoria No. 7. (1) | £60 |
| 136 | YORKSHIRE PUNCH TYPE TRAM AND BUS TICKET MISCELLANY comprising: Huddersfield Corporation Tramways – ½d child yellow, 1d white, 1½d blue named stage Waterloo and Outlane Section; Huddersfield Corporation Trackless Trolleybus Vehicles – green Exchange; Leeds City Trams – 1d white (repaired), 1d blue (long) and 1½d white named stage; Yorkshire (WD) Electric Trams Ltd. – 1d white; 1½d blue, 1½d green, 2½d brown, 5d yellow, 8d brown numeric stage; Yorkshire (WD) Transport Co Ltd. – 1d white numeric stage; Yorkshire Woollen District Transport Co. Ltd. – 1½d green, 2d pink, 2½d white/red numeric stage; Yorkshire (WR) Electric Trams Co. Ltd. – 6d mauve numeric stage. (18) | £65 |
| 137 | BRANCH LINES BETWEEN BIRMINGHAM AND BRISTOL issued comprising LMS: 6 issued (one with pencil date) including Alcester, Broom Junction, Harvington, Salford Priors, Studley & Astw’d, Tewkesbury; 4 audit including Bengeworth, Hinton, Woodchester, etc; LMS&GW Severn & Wye Jt: Berkeley, Severn Bridge, Sharpness; GWR 1 issued and BR(W) 6 issued including Ashchurch, Coaley, Dursley, etc; 2 audit. (22) | £130 |
| 138 | LGOC & ASSOCIATED Cos fareboard geographical punch type BUS TICKETS comprising issues from services 73 to 621 at fares between 1d and 5d. All different and mostly VGC. (39) | £30 |
| 139 | RAILWAY EXECUTIVE TRANSITIONAL PRINTS: A collection of 100 issued and audit whole Edmondsons covering all regions. There is some duplication of stations, but not of individual prints. (100) | £110 |
| 140 | GWR/BR CREWE TO WELLINGTON LINE whole comprising GWR 7 issued including Adderley, Crudgington, Market Drayton, Peplow, Rowton Halt, etc; 1 audit to the line (Bd); BR 8 issued including Audlem, Ellerdine, Hodnet, Tern Hill, Wellington Salop, etc. (16) | £210 |
| 141 | MIDLAND RAILWAY AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES comprising 25 issued whole and 15 severed halves from the Midland Railway, 6 halves from the LT&S, 4 halves from the T&H Joint, 12 halves from the GWR and Mid Severn & Wye Joint Rly, and one audit whole and 10 severed halves from the Belfast & Northern Counties Railway. Fourteen of the whole tickets are for articles, while 19 are vertical prints. Seven tickets have been rejoined, the condition of these being poor – otherwise, they are generally good. (26wh 47hlf) | £50 |
| 142 | ISSUED AND AUDIT '0000' TICKETS – the first issue in the series: NLR - 1 issued; GWR - 1 issued; LNER 3 issued/1 audit; SR - 3 issued, 1 pre-dated, 3 audit; GW, LNE, LMS & SR - 1 audit; BR - 1 issued, 1 pre-dated, 1 audit; Met & GC - 1 issued; LT - 1 issued; 2 x SR halves. Some interesting types noted. (19wh 2hlf) | £45 |
| 143 | DEVON TRAM AND BUS CONCERNS: 1½d white and 3d yellow geographical stage punch type TRAM TICKETS from the TORQUAY TRAMWAYS CO. LTD., together with 2d red, 6d red and 1/1d blue numeric stage BUS TICKETS from GRANGE AND BLACK SERVICES BRANSCOMBE and a 2d stage punch ticket from the SIDMOUTH MOTOR CO. LTD. (6) | £45 |
| 144 | MINOR RAILWAY MISCELLANY comprising an unused 5d green Bell Punch single from the ASHOVER LIGHT RAILWAY, 9 unused whole from the BISHOP’S CASTLE RAILWAY (2 x Bishop’s Castle; Eaton, 6 x Lydham Heath), an undated 1st single from the EAST KENT RAILWAY and an issued thin card ROTHER VALLEY RAILWAY ticket from Wittersham Road. The lot also includes severed halves from the Bishop’s Castle, Kent & East Sussex, and Surrey Border & Camberley Railways, and paper tickets from the Bishop’s Castle Railway (used) and Southwold Railway (unused Dog ticket from Halesworth). (12wh 3hlf 2 paper) | £70 |
| 145 | BTC(M) 2d Red Diamond PLATFORM TICKETS from stations beginning “A” to “M”: Abergele (dated), Altrincham & Bowdon, Atherton Central, Beeston Castle & Tarporley, Berkhamsted, Blackpool Central, Bletchley, Bolton Trinity Street 1, Bury Bolton Street, Bury Knowsley St, Caledonian Road & Barnsbury, Camden Road, Chester Northgate, Crewe, Croxley Green, Dalston Junction, Edge Hill, Farnworth & Halshaw Moor, Fleetwood, Guide Bridge, Hampstead Heath 1, Heaton Park, Hendon, Kentish Town, Leyland, Liverpool Exchange 2, Longton, Lytham, Manchester Victoria 7 (two different sets). (30) | £100 |
| 146 | LONDON TRANSPORT TRAMS, etc. geographical punch type TRAM TICKETS comprising 3 x LPTB Trams. 5 x LT Trams, 4 x LT T&T. Includes singles (1d Walthamstow Area, 2d, 3d and 5d different routes) Cheap fare 2d Clapham Depot, 2 x 3d Workmen's returns, and 5d and 6d return journey transfers. (12) | £20 |
| 147 | GWR WALES AND THE BORDERS. Pre-Nationalisation prints - 15 issued including Builth Rd., Holme Lacy, Llanfalteg, Onllwyn, Pontllanfraith, Pool Quay, St Athan Halt, Skewen, Tirydail, Trehafod, etc; 5 audit including Brynamman (This is for a journey from the ex-LMS station, and is therefore a post-nationalisation print.), Port Talbot (General), Saundersfoot, etc. (20) | £80 |
| 148 | OVERSEAS RAIL MISCELLANY: A box containing around 150 Edmondson, and a similar number of paper and machine issues. The majority are from Europe and issued in the early 1960s, but there are a few from Australia and a bundle of 9 Indian Edmondsons from the BNWR and EIR, which appear to have been issued in 1917 and 1932. (Qty) | £85 |
| 149 | CENTRAL LONDON RAILWAY from Bank (Auto 1), Bond Street (Auto 2), Notting Hill Gate 2 – British Museum (closed 25/9/1933), Tottenham Ct Rd 1, and two examples with abbreviations for station names “Bk” (Bank) – “MA” (Marble Arch) and “Bk” – SB (Shepherd’s Bush). (6) | £50 |
| 150 | THE BIDEFORD, WESTWARD HO! AND APPLEDORE RAILWAY CO. issued 1d white 3rd Class punch type ticket for a number of named journeys, in VGC. This line only operated between 1901 and 1917. (1) | £210 |
| 151 | BR (M/E): A collection of c.200 mainly issued whole Edmondsons, a large proportion of which are transitional or early 3rd class prints. Includes closed stations and interesting types. Condition generally very good. (200) | £240 |
| 152 | NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY all issued whole comprising 6 ordinary singles, 1 return, 1 x Dog, 6 x Bicycle. Issuing stations include Alnwick, Beverley, Staithes, Tynemouth (to Central), Washington, Wearhead, Musgrave, Ravenstonedale (/), Warcop, etc. Mostly good condition. (14) | £90 |
| 153 | MISCELLANY of punch type TROLLEYBUS/BUS TICKETS comprising a mix of numerical stage/geographical types including (Trolleybus) 1 x Tyneside Railless Traction Board, 6 x Hastings (plus 2 Tramways Setright), 1 x Huddersfield Trackless; 1 x Huddersfield Trolleybuses, 2 Bradford Tramways Railless (poor), etc., plus (Bus) including Mexborough & Swinton, Grimsby Corporation, West Hartlepool Corporation, etc. (49) | £40 |
| 154 | LYME REGIS, SEATON AND SIDMOUTH BRANCHES AND ASSOCIATED MAIN LINE comprising: SR – issued 1st blank single Combpyne, audit Seaton; Sidmouth Jn to Sidmouth. BR (W /S) – 5 issued Axminster (inc. platform ticket), 3 issued Colyford, 1 issued 1 audit Colyton, 1 issued 1 audit Combpyne, 2 issued 1 audit Lyme Regis, 1 platform 1 audit Seaton, 3 audit Seaton Junction (o/s ‘Reminder’), 3 issued 7 audit Sidmouth, 1 issued Manchester to Sidmouth, 1 half. (35wh 1hlf) | £85 |
| 155 | LMS PLATFORM TICKETS T1A: Rochdale A; T2A: Euston 1; T3A: Blackpool North (poor), Crewe (poor), Liverpool Lime St 2nd set and 3, Manchester Lon Rd LMS 1 and 2, Manchester L Rd 2, Windermere LM&S; T3B: Chelten’m Spa Lan A (/), Chester 1, Crewe LMS (blue card), Crewe 2nd set, Euston 2 and 3, Manchester Ldn Rd 1 (brown card), Sheffield A (brown card), Willesden 1, Mold; plus 5 roll ticket/BEAM types. (25) | £270 |
| 156 | MET (3) SMET (9). All numerical punch type TRAM TICKETS except for a SMET 2d mauve Transfer High Level/Selby Road and High Level/Pawleyne Arms. VGC. (12) | £30 |
| 157 | END OF COLLECTION MISCELLANY comprising: whole – 7 Pre-grouping, 24 Pre-Nat, 12 Ireland, 16 BR, 8 preservation / minor, 17 Pre-LPTB; halves – 125 Pre-Nat including a good number from the West Country), 5 Ireland, 23 minor (including 21 WC&P), 4 Pre-LPTB, plus 3 tram (including South London). (87wh 157hlf) | £120 |
| 158 | EDINBURGH & DISTRICT TRAMWAYS CO LTD. An early purple 1d roll ‘School Ticket’ from this TRAMWAY company, which was incorporated in 1894 after Edinburgh Corporation had purchased the lines in the City from the Edinburgh Street Tramways Co and leased them to Dick, Kerr & Co Ltd. (1) | £130 |
| 159 | BR(N) LEEDS/BRADFORD AREA all issued whole including from Armley (Canal Road), Bramley, Burley-in-Wharfedale, Horsforth, Leeds (Marsh Lane), Laisterdyke, Manningham, Newlay, Osmondthorpe, Scholes, Spofforth, Thorner, Wetherby, etc. (25) | £80 |
| 160 | CUMBRIA AREA PRE-GROUPING MISCELLANY comprising whole Edmondsons from Cleator & Workington Junction: Cleator Moor (closed 13/4/1931) – Moor Row (closed 7/1/1935); CK&PR (2 issued bike; 1 audit ordinary travel); Maryport & Carlisle Railway issued bike from Bullgill; Furness Railway audit “Windermere Steam Yacht” ticket from Ambleside (slightly larger than Edmondson). Mostly VGC. (6) | £50 |
| 161 | PRE-NATIONALISATION SEVERED HALVES: a collection of 300 tickets, comprising 64 GWR, 58 LM&SR, 67 LNER, 100 SR and 11 Joint lines. There is a little duplication of stations and occasional prints, but the lot includes 19 LNER 2nd class tickets and a number from closed stations, including a return half from Lynton to Blackmoor issued on 11/9/1934. (300 hlf) | £85 |
| 162 | CAMBRIAN RAILWAYS: Issued 3rd Parly single Abermule to Newtown (dated 26/6/1909), together with a 2nd single Towyn to Shrewsbury L&NW (with stamped date 31/11/1911 – the last day of such facilities) and a heavily soiled blank season ticket made out to a John Straw for use between Ellesmere and Oswestry in 1918. (3) | £40 |
| 163 | SHEFFIELD AND HEELEY OMNIBUS oval HORSE BUS TOKEN. The front has a coach and horse in the centre, while the back shows ‘John Shortlands 1852’. (1) | £10 |
| 164 | MIDLAND RAILWAY collection of approx 500 LUGGAGE LABELS of varying types on mauve and on white paper, including a small selection of coloured routing labels and one or two parcels labels. Some duplication noted and a number stuck together which will require soaking to separate. (Qty | £210 |
| 165 | BTC(S) 2d Red Diamond PLATFORM TICKETS from stations “A” to “E”: Allhallows-on-Sea, Andover Town 1, Andover Junction, Arundel, Ashford Kent 3, Beckenham Junc 1, Bingham Road, Birkbeck, Blackfriars, Bournemouth Cen 1, 2 and 3, Bournemouth West 1, Brighton 1, 2 and 3, Brockenhurst 2, Canterbury West, Charing Cross 3, Chessington South, Chichester 1, Crayford, Dover Priory, Dunton Green, Eastbourne 3, East Grinstead (two different), Eastleigh, Edenbridge Town, Exeter Cen 1. (30) | £130 |
| 166 | LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS CO. Twenty seven named stage punch type BUS TICKETS for services between 29 and 67, together with a Through Ticket for a journey on the Underground system. Condition generally VG. (28) | £55 |
| 167 | NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY issued 3rd Sgls Alsager – Crewe, Stoke-on-Trent – Creswell (Child), Stoke-on-Trent – Newcastle-U-L, plus two audit tickets from Chatterley and Stoke-on-Trent. All in VGC. (5) | £45 |
| 168 | LONDON TRANSPORT GREEN LINE COACHES: A collection of 126 post-war (1946 – March 1952) all different named stage punch type BUS TICKETS from Route 708 (Code CS 12) The tickets are loose mounted on card in an album with historical notes. Condition is mostly good / VG. See note at Lot 18. (126) | £100 |
| 169 | LONDON & SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY issued 1st single Feltham to Waterloo, dated 12/1/1903, together with a 3rd single from Haydens Road to Wimbledon New, dated 7/1/1895 – both in VGC. A station at Haydens Lane opened on 1/10/1868 and was renamed Haydons Road on 1/10/1889. The latter ticket shows a hybrid of the two names. (2) | £260 |
| 170 | GWR/BR(W) SOUTH WALES all issued whole comprising GWR (21) including from Aberthaw, Bargoed, Bedwas, Colbren Junc., Dingle Rd Halt, Hirwaun, Penrhiwceiber (Low Level), Penscynor Halt (poor), Senghenydd, Treorchy, Tondu, etc; BR (9) including Boncath, Gorseinon, Pembrey & Burry Port, Penarth Town, etc. (30) | £70 |
| 171 | BR (E/N): A collection of 117 issued and 33 audit whole Edmondsons (including 3 from other regions). Includes a few closed / unstaffed stations. No duplication. (150) | £75 |
| 172 | PRE-GROUPING SELECTION : LM&SR CONSTITUENTS comprising: CK&PR – 1 audit; Furness Rly – 1 issued rejoined Sat to Mon return, 1 audit; G&SWR – 1 audit; L&YR – issued 3rd PT Manchester Vic, issued Soldier on Duty blank Seaforth & L., 3 x audit; L&Y&L&NW Jt. – issued Saloon Berth Fleetwood to Belfast on SS Duke of Connaught, undated Blackpool regulation ticket; NLR – issued 3rd sgl Hackney, heavily clipped Workman’s Ticket Homerton; NSR – 3 audit. Two Caledonian, 1 L&Y, 2 L&NW and 7 NLR severed halves are also included in the lot. (16wh 12hlf) | £85 |
| 173 | THE CITY OF OXFORD & DISTRICT TRAMWAYS CO.1d pink punch type HORSE TRAM TICKET available between Carfax and Railway Station and Cowley Terminus and Carfax (small amount of paper on back from previous mounting), together with an 8.5cm x 4.5cm red 1d paper ticket. The system opened in 1881 and closed in 1914. (1) | £55 |
| 174 | MANCHESTER TO GUIDE BRIDGE VIA GORTON AND FALLOWFIELD mostly issued whole comprising LNER (7) including from Fallowfield, Hyde Road, Levenshulme, Wilbraham Road; CLC (1) from Chorlton; LMS (1) from Ardwick; BR (20 issued, 1 audit) including from Ashburys, Gorton & Openshaw, Guide Bridge, Hyde Road, Levenshulme South, etc. (30) | £65 |
| 175 | SOUTHERN RAILWAY PLATFORM TICKETS from stations beginning “A” and “B”: Red Blob: T1B: Barming; T1C: Berwick, Bramley & Wonersh; Red Diamond: T2A: Bordon; T2B: Bexleyheath, Bosham, Braunton; T3: Adisham, Alton, Ashford Kent 1, Basingstoke 1, Battle, Belmont, Bingham Road, Boscombe 1, Branksome, Brighton and 1 and 2, Bournemouth West (letter 'O' overprint rather than red diamond). (20) | £60 |
| 176 | THE METROPOLITAN ELECTRIC TRAMWAYS LTD. A varied selection of 10 named stage TRAM TICKETS from the 1906 to 1918 period. (10) | £180 |
| 177 | NORTH LONDON RAILWAY: A selection of all different 1st, 2nd and 3rd whole Edmondsons, the earliest dating from 1877 and including closed stations. (20) | £85 |
| 178 | LONDON TRANSPORT BUSES: a collection of 185 all different issues, including over 30 from the LPTB era. (185) | £35 |
| 179 | BR(M) MAINLY FROM CLOSED STATIONS IN THE MIDLANDS all issued whole including Aldridge, Ashwell (Rutland), Basford (North), Brooksby, Brownhills, Colwich, Donnington, Grimston, Hadley, Luffenham, New Basford, Oakham, Penns, Seaton (Rutland), Uppingham, Welford & Kilworth, Whissendine, Yelvertoft & Stanford Park, etc. (30) | £80 |
| 180 | GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY MOTOR OMNIBUSES issued 2/6d white/mauve punch type BUS TICKET for the Haverford West Station to St. David’s route in pre-grouping days. (1) | £110 |
| 181 | BR(S) CLOSED STATIONS all issued whole, all different including from Ashley Heath, Barcombe Mills, Cranbrook, Greatstone-on-Sea, Goudhurst, Haven Street, Heathfield, Hellingly, Horam, Horsmonden, Isfield, Lordship Lane, Mill Hill, Newport, Rotherfield & Mark Cross, Sheffield Park, Tenterden Town, Westerham, West Hoathly, etc. (30) | £160 |
| 182 | PRE-NATIONALISATION MISCELLANY: A collection of 55 issued and 21 audit whole Edmondsons and 17 severed halves. From the ‘Big Four’ there are 19 issued and 2 audit LMS, 4 issued GWR and 23 issued and 2 audit SR. The remaining 26 whole tickets are from 10 joint concerns. The halves comprise 13 GW&GC, 2 MSJA and 2 LMS. Includes closed stations such as Moss Side, Keswick, and Weedon, and the odd transitional print. (76wh 17hlf) | £100 |
| 183 | THE LONDON CENTRAL MOTOR OMNIBUS Co. 1d white geographical punch type BUS TICKETS for the Chalk Farm (Adelaide) – Camberwell Green service with stages listed in menu style. A rare issue from a short-lived company in excellent condition. (1) | £80 |
| 184 | LONDON TILBURY & SOUTHEND RAILWAY selection of LUGGAGE LABELS comprising type L101 on blue paper Stepney to Westcliff-on-Sea, L108 on white to blank from Westcliff-on-Sea, type L103 on buff or faded white to Fenchurch Street and standard L103 types on blue to Crouch Hill, Grays, Leytonstone, St Pancras, Tilbury Dock, Upper Holloway, Upton Park. Some are a little tatty/soiled, but scarce examples nevertheless included. (10) | £230 |
| 185 | BR(S) 1d Red Diamond PLATFORM TICKETS all with BTC conditions stations “L” to “W”: Ladywell, London Bridge 4, Maidstone East 1, Mitcham Junction, Mottingham, Newick & Chailey, Newport, New Romney, Petworth, Richmond, Rochester, Rotherfield & Mark Cross, Sheerness-on-Sea 1, South Bermondsey, Streatham Hill, Tonbridge 1, Tooting, Tunbridge Wells West, Victoria 1 and 3, Waterloo 7, Weymouth 2, Wivelsfield, Worthing Cen 1. (24) | £110 |
| 186 | LONDON INDEPENDENT BUS OPERATORS mix of geographical and numerical stage punch type BUS TICKETS including examples from Birch Bros, City Motors, CHP, Edward Paul, Silver Omnibuses, United Omnibuses, Thomas Tilling, etc. (11) | £70 |
| 187 | LONDON TRANSPORT ‘ADMIT ONE PERSON FOR (AIR RAID) SHELTER’ TICKETS from Arsenal, Bank (Cent), Bond Street, Camden Town, Chancery Lane, Clapham Nth, Covent Garden, Earls Court (Picc), Euston, Holborn (Kingsway), Holloway Rd., Lambeth North, Leicester Sq., London Bridge, Maida Vale, Moorgate (NL). The London Bridge ticket is faded, a couple of others have minor fading, and one has a small amount of tape on the back; otherwise they are in good / VG condition. (16) | £160 |
| 188 | THE POTTERIES ELECTRIC TRACTION COMPANY LTD. What is probably a complete series of 17 punch type TRAM TICKETS with values from 1d to 2/- and Bell Punch Uxbridge 5-28 imprints, together 8 similar tickets with values 1d to 6d, five of which have early imprints in the 4-number series, and 3 with later Bell Punch London imprints, and 8 Exchange tickets. Five have late 1920s Bell Punch Uxbridge imprints, while 3 have later ‘London’ codes. (33) | £110 |
| 189 | LM&SR: A collection of 100 issued and 30 audit whole Edmondsons from stations in England and Wales. Includes a number of closed and unstaffed stations. (130) | £170 |
| 190 | DESTINATION SPALDING: A collection of issued singles to Spalding, all dated 20/8/1949, comprising LNER – from Algarkirk & Sutterton, Boston, 2 x Cowbit (one = Child), Donington Road, Kings Cross London, Louth (Furlough), Peterborough North, Pinchbeck (Child), Postland, Sleaford (Furlough), Surfleet (Child), Twenty, Scunthorpe & Frodingham, Skegness (Child); CLC – Liverpool Cen; LMS – Warwick Mil. (Forces Leave), plus 4 LNER severed halves. (17wh 4hlf) | £95 |
| 191 | BR/BTC/BRB (S): A collection of 200 all different issued whole Edmondsons, with little, if any, duplication of origin stations. Includes a few closed stations and transitional prints. (200) | £90 |
| 192 | PRE-GROUPING MISCELLANY: A collection of 35 issued and 5 audit whole Edmondsons from 14 different companies – the main ones being GWR (9), LB&SCR (6), L&NWR (5) and NER (4). (40) | £110 |
| 193 | SWANSEA IMPROVEMENTS AND TRAMWAYS CO. 1½d brown and 2½d yellow numeric stage punch type TRAM TICKETS with Bell Punch 10-26 imprints, together long 20-numeric stage issues from THE SOUTH WALES TRANSPORT CO. LTD comprising 2 x 1½d green, 2d blue, 8d brown (with Bell Punch 9-25 and 0741 imprints) and, from the same company, a 3d pink 26 stage issue with the top section torn off, and a 4d return Exchange ticket. (8) | £45 |
| 194 | NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY selection of approx 500 LUGGAGE LABELS to a good variety of stations, but a few examples are heavily duplicated. One or two parcels labels included also. (Qty) | £180 |
| 195 | BTC(S) 2d Red Diamond PLATFORM TICKETS from stations “A” to “D”: Adisham, Alresford, Amberley, Appledore, Ascot, Ashurst, Barming, Beckenham Junction 1, Berwick (Sussex), Blackfriars, Bournemouth Cen 2, Boxhill & Westhumble, Bramber, Brixton, Brockley DO, Burgess Hill, Buxted, Cannon St 1 and 3, Chartham, Chatham, Clapham Junc T5, Cooksbridge, Coombe Road (two different), Cowes, Coulsdon North, Coulsdon South, Cranbrook, Crowboro’ & Jarvis B’k, Crowhurst, Crowthorne, Crystal Palace, Dartford, Dormans, Dunton Green (two different). (37) | £120 |
| 196 | PORTSMOUTH CORPORATION TRAMWAYS punch type TRAM TICKETS comprising eight named stage, five numerical; and one booklet cover. Some tickets have the issuing dates (between 1913 and 1930) written on backs (and on one occasion on front). All different and mostly VGC. (14) | £30 |
| 197 | BR(H) CLOSED STATIONS, all issued whole, all different including from Anstruther, Beattock, Burnmouth, Canonbie, Crieff, Embo, Eyemouth, Gretna Green, Kelso, Langholm, Lundin Links, Roxburgh, St Boswells, The Mound, Whistlefield, etc. (24) | £95 |
| 198 | LONDON TRANSPORT TROLLEYBUSES (32)/LONDON TRANSPORT T&T (16): A collection of punch type TROLLEYBUS TICKETS loose mounted on card in an album, with historical notes. The tickets bear code 168 and are from Services 557, 581, 623 and 625 in pre-war, wartime and post-war periods. Condition is good/VG. See note at Lot 18. (48) | £30 |
| 199 | GREAT CENTRAL RAILWAY issued 3rd single Checker House to Retford, dated 7/6/1903. This ticket has a central vertical crease, but should not deter those keen to acquire a ticket from a station closed on 14/9/1931. (1) | £40 |
| 200 | GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY IVORY PASS No.169 issued to ‘J. Shuttleworth Esq., Met Ry Co.’. The pass dates from the 1870s and is in excellent condition. (1) | £480 |
| 201 | SR/BR(W/S) Former L&SWR lines Exeter and the West whole Edmondsons: SR: two issued, one undated from Padstow, Torrington, Barnstaple Town; BR 19 issued including Bideford, Bude (Rej), Halwill, Instow, Okehampton, Torrington, etc; 13 audit including Waterloo to Torrington, etc., and three Red Diamond Platform Tickets: Barnstaple, Barnstaple Junction, Okehampton. (38) | £190 |
| 202 | NORTH LONDON RAILWAY SEVERED HALVES: A colourful collection of 132 tickets covering a wide variety of types and journeys, with dates ranging from the 1870s to the grouping. (132) | £90 |
| 203 | HUDDERSFIELD AND HALIFAX TRAMS mostly geographical punch type TRAM TICKETS comprising 6 x Huddersfield Corp Trams Waterloo & Outlane Route (one has names reversed); 3 x Huddersfield Corp Trams & Motor Buses; 1 x Halifax Corp Tramways. (10) | £30 |
| 204 | GLASGOW, DUMBARTON & HELENSBURGH RAILWAY: All different issued singles from the 1860s comprising Cardross, 7 x Glasgow, Helensburgh, Kilpatrick, and 3 x Maryhill. Covers First Class, Parl’y Open Carriage and Parl’y Closed Carriage journeys. An EDINBURGH & GLASGOW RAILWAY Parly single between the two cities is also included in the lot. (14) | £55 |
| 205 | RED DIAMOND PLATFORM TICKETS MISCELLANY: BR(W) 1d (Rly Exec conds): Bath Spa A, Carmarthen, Marylebone 1, Merthyr, Paddington 7, Pontypridd; BR(W) 1d (BTC conds): Bridgend, Gloucester Central, Marylebone 1 and 2, Paddington 2 and 3, Stratford Upon Avon; BTC(W) 2d: Aberdare HL, Uxbridge Vine Street; BTC(E) 2d: Maldon East, St Margarets ER, Sleaford, Southend-on-Sea Victoria, Stowmarket, Stratford, Walton-on-Naze, Witham, Wood Green; BRB(E) 2d: Dag-enham Heathway, Hadley Wood, March, Newark North Gate, Seven Kings, Wood Green Alexandra Park; BRB(M) 2d: Rochdale; BRB(M) 3d: Aylesbury, Guide Bridge, Llandudno, Whitefield. (35) | £100 |
| 206 | LGOC & ASSOCIATED COS. 31 numbered-stage punch-type BUS TICKETS from a variety of different sets, including four with "P" at the foot denoting use on London Public Omnibus Co. Ltd. routes. Also included are 13 LONDON COUNTRY SERVICES LTD. numbered-stage tickets, mostly in the design of earlier East Surrey Traction issues. (44) | £30 |
| 207 | L&NWR singles including from Aston, Edge Hill, Fleetwood, Hest Bank, Kendal, Kensal Rise (2nd class), London (Broad St), Morecambe, St Helens, South Hampstead, Wigan, etc. Condition varies, some creasing and scuffing. (20) | £60 |
| 208 | LONDON AREA PUNCH TYPE TRAM AND BUS TICKET MISCELLANY: A 2d yellow numerical stage print from East Ham Corporation Tramways (soiled), together with geographical stage prints comprising ½d red from the London Southern Trams Co. (to LCC 20/12/1906), a 1d blue from LCC Trams, 2 x 1d blue from the North Metropolitan Tramways Co. (similar to the LCC issue – different adverts), 1d and 1½d transfers from Walthamstow Corporation Light Railways, a 1½d green from Walthamstow Council Light Railways (poor), and a 1d white from the Chatham & District Traction Company. (9) | £50 |
| 209 | GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY issued 2nd single Hayes (renamed 22/11/1897) to Farringdon St., dated 20/12/1871 and in excellent condition. (1) | £85 |
| 210 | KENT & EAST SUSSEX RAILWAY: A collection of 14 issued and 30 audit whole Edmondsons, together with one SR audit and 3 issued BR transitional singles. The lot also includes two K&ESR unused large card tickets and a folding leatherette free pass. (51) | £210 |
| 211 | SOUTHERN RAILWAY / BR(S) ISLE OF WIGHT comprising SR – issued from 2 x Merstone, 2 x Newport, Ningwood, Ryde Esplanade, Watchingwell; undated and unclipped from Ventnor West, plus Rail Motor for journeys from St. Lawrence Halt / Godshill Halt; BR – issued from Haven Street, 2 x Newport, Ningwood, Ryde Esplanade, Yarmouth IW, Yarmouth Slipway. (17) | £340 |
| 212 | LM&SR CLOSED STATIONS IN THE MIDLANDS: All issued whole Edmondsons comprising, Aldridge, Alrewas, Ashby, Banbury, Barton & Walton, Clifton Mill (cl. 6/4/1953), Coalport (cl. 2/6/1952), Hazelwell (cl. 27/1/1941), King’s Heath (Trans. cl. 27/1/1941), Leire Halt, Lilbourne, Northampton B. St., Northampton St. Johns St. (cl. 3/7/1939), Oakengates (cl. 2/6/1952), Shilton, Standon Bridge (cl. 4/2/1952), Stratford-on-Avon (cl. 7/4/1952), Streetly, Trench Crossing, Yelvertoft & SP. (20) | £210 |
| 213 | LPTB Trams geographical punch type TRAM TICKETS from a variety of routes. Includes several long tickets, also scholar and workman tickets. A couple of examples are grubby, VGC otherwise. (27) | £26 |
| 214 | PARCELS STAMPS, ETC. MISCELLANY comprising a 2d letter post stamp from the WEST CLARE RAILWAY, a 1d Cartage stamp from the LANCASHIRE & YORKSHIRE RAILWAY at Wyre Dock, a 4d LONDON & NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY parcels stamp used at Euston on 6/10/1910, and a 2d Newspaper stamp from the M&GN JOINT COMMITTEE. (4) | £10 |
| 215 | SOUTHERN RAILWAY PLATFORM TICKETS: Red Blob: T1C: Ryde Pier Head (orange card), St Helens, Selsdon Road, Sutton Bingham, Umberleigh, Withyham, Woodbury Road, Worplesdon; Red Diamond: T2B: Allhallows-on-Sea, Wandsworth Road and HO, West Hoathly, Wilton, Woodmansterne; T3 Wateringbury, West Grinstead, Whimple, Woldingham, Winchfield, Yeovil Town. (20) | £230 |
| 216 | GLASGOW CORPORATION TRAMS/TRANSPORT geographical punch type TRAM TICKETS comprising seven ( 3 x ½d, 2 x 1d, 2 x 1½d) with “Trams” in heading and three (3 x 2d) “Transport” heading with “car” conditions. All good/VGC. (10) | £35 |
| 217 | SOUTH EASTERN & CHATHAM RAILWAY: A selection of 20 issued whole Edmondsons, together with 3 from the South Eastern Railway and one from the London, Chatham & Dover Railway. (24) | £110 |
| 218 | LONDON TRANSPORT (BUSES) all different named-stage punch type BUS TICKETS from Routes 124, 243, 173 and 228 in wartime and post-war periods. A selection of tickets is offered to show changes in stages and route patterns during the periods covered. Condition is mostly good/VG. See note at Lot 18. (102) | £110 |
| 219 | BR CLOSED STATIONS: A collection of 50 issued tickets all from different stations, mainly Eastern Region, but including a few Midland and North Eastern. Too many to list in full, but includes Barnard Castle, Bourne, County School, East Langton, Helpston, Horwich, Muswell Hill, New Biggin, Potton, Sileby, Silloth, South Howden, Southwell, Stamford Town, Summer Lane, Three Counties, Wincobank. Condition generally VG. (50) | £130 |
| 220 | EAST LONDON RAILWAY JOINT TITLES issued 3rd Sgls comprising EL & LBSC Rys Whitechapel – West Croydon, East London & Metropolitan Rys New Cross – Farringdon Street (Child) (/), EL & SE&C Rys Surrey Docks – New Cross (SE&C). Mostly VGC. (3) | £90 |
| 221 | SLIGO, LEITRIM & NORTHERN COUNTIES RAILWAY: First Class all stations leatherette folding free passes for the years 1913, 1921 and 1930 – the former being an oval shape, the others rectangular. The recipients were, respectively, T. Shields, P. Wharton Director of Traffic (pre-printed) and G. F. Egan of the SL&NCR. All in VGC. (3) | £20 |
| 222 | MIDLAND & GREAT NORTHERN JOINT COMMITTEE: A collection of 16 issued and 203 audit whole Edmondsons, together with 12 issued and 6 audit from the NORFOLK & SUFFOLK JOINT (RAILWAYS) COMMITTEE. (237) | £120 |
| 223 | POTTERIES BUS SERVICES – BERRESFORD/BERRISFORD: A collection of 43 punch type BUS TICKETS comprising 16 x Berresfords Motor Ltd. (with adverts on the backs for both Wetley Rocks and Cheddleton), 1 x Berrisford & Williams Bucknall Bus Service (Bucknall to Hanley; foxed), 16 x Berrisford Bus Service, 10 x J.M. Berrisford Bus Service (J.M. Berresford, Wetley Rocks advert on some backs). (43) | £30 |
| 224 | GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY unheaded G31 type LUGGAGE LABELS to Audley End, Bentley, Brentwood, Cavendish, Clapton, Claydon, Dereham, Fulbourne, Harlow, Harwich, Haverhill, Huntingdon, Kimberley, Lynn, Mardocks, Norwich Vic., Swavesey, Thetford, Thuxton, Wendling. Mostly VGC. Speculation exists that these could have been printed by the Eastern Counties Railway prior to the formation of the GER in 1862, but in the absence of proof, they are classified GER. (20) | £210 |
| 225 | BTC(W) PLATFORM TICKETS: 1d Red Diamond: High Wycombe D, Llantrisant, Stroud; 2d Red Diamond: Abertillery, Bargoed, Bath Spa (faded), Cadoxton, Cheltenham Spa St James, Great Malvern Hereford, Kidderminster, Princes Risborough, Stourbridge Junction, Swindon Junction, Truro, Weston-Super-Mare, Wolverhampton LL, Wrexham General, Yeovil Town; 3d Red Diamond: Bude; plus 2d Flexiprinter (2), 1d BEAM (4) and 2d BEAM (2). (28) | £140 |
| 226 | LCC TRAMWAYS: 10 early geographical punch type TRAM TICKETS, some in transitional London Tramways Company and North Metropolitan Tramways styles. (10) | £20 |
| 227 | MIDLAND RAILWAY/LM&SR – SWANSEA VALE LINE: An issued Midland Railway 1st single Swansea to Upper Bank, dated 12/5/1913 and in excellent condition, together with LM&SR undated/ audit whole from Glais and 2 x Morriston, and an issued return half Swansea St. Thomas to Glais. (4wh 1hlf) | £120 |
| 228 | BUS AND TRAM TICKET MISCELLANY comprising 4 named stage punch type BUS TICKETS from Cumberland Motor Services Ltd. (inc. 1 duplicate), 7 numeric stage and 3 exchange tickets from Devon General Omnibus & Touring Co. Ltd. (1 with full title, 6 torn off return portions and 3 longer type singles,) a named stage ticket from Bath Electric Tramways Ltd., and 2 torn tickets from Bath Tramways Motor Co. Ltd. (17) | £18 |
| 229 | EDMONDSON PARKING TICKETS: A small accumulation of mostly BTC and BRB issues, but including 2 LM&SR and 5 London Transport. Almost all are from different stations and appear to be genuinely used. Includes 7-Day and Period issues and origin points such as Rickmansworth (LMS), Swansea Bay, and Inverness Goods Yard. Mostly VGC. (40) | £60 |
| 230 | GWR RUABON TO BARMOUTH AND BLAENAU FESTINIOG mostly issued whole including from Arenig, Bala, Blaneau Festiniog, Bontnewydd (u), Corwen, Festiniog, Garneddwen Halt (u), Llangollen, Llys Halt, Maentwrog Rd., Teigl Halt (u), Trevor, Tyddyn Bridge Halt, etc. (20) | £110 |
| 231 | ST. ALBANS STATIONS comprising: GNR – 1st single St. Albans GN to St. Albans L&NW; a 3rd single for the same journey (/), and a 3rd single to Hatfield; L&NWR – 3rd single St. Albans to St. Albans GN; Midland – 3rd single St. Albans to Hendon; LM&SR 3rd single St. Albans Abbey to Watford High Street. (6) | £50 |
| 232 | LM&SR/LNER: A collection of 58 issued and 33 audit whole Edmondsons from the LM&SR, and 21 issued and 25 audit from the LNER, together with 8 issued and 15 audit from joint lines owned by one or both of the grouped companies. Issued tickets include Boat of Garten, Brancepath, Elland, Highgate, Hopton Heath, Kilnhurst, Newsham, and West Leigh, Seven of the issued joint line tickets are from the M&GN. (160) | £220 |
| 233 | LONDON TRANSPORT GREEN LINE COACHES: A collection of 154 post-war (1946 – March 1952) all different named stage punch type BUS TICKETS from Routes 712, 713, 714, 726 and 727 (Codes CS 13 and 14) The tickets are loose mounted on card in an album with historical notes. Condition is mostly good/VG. See note at Lot 18. (154) | £180 |
| 234 | GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY (IRELAND), A collection of 40 issued and 160 audit whole Edmondsons. Includes a wide selection of types and stations – many of which are closed. Armagh, Castlecaldwell, Clones, Enniskillen, Hamiltonbawn, Lisbellaw included in issued tickets. (200) | £110 |
| 235 | SR/BR(S) PLATFORM TICKETS: SR: Red Diamond T3: Cannon Street 1, Waterloo 1; BR(S) 1d Red Diamond Transitional (name at base): Berrylands 1, Malden Manor, Stoneleigh, Tolworth; BR(S) 1d Red Diamond (RE conditions): Ashtead (/), Clapham Jc 9, East Putney, London Bd’ge 6, Putney, Raynes Park 2, Southfields, Surbiton 1, Sutton (/), Tonbridge 1, Wimbledon 1, Wimbledon Chase, Wimbledon Park (/); 1d Red Diamond (BTC conds): Brentford Central, Charing Cross 1, Cowes, Eastleigh, Hampton Court, Newport, Tunbridge Wells West, Waterloo E and 6. (28) | £70 |
| 236 | BIRMINGHAM DISTRICT POWER AND TRACTION CO: LTD: Numeric stage punch type TRAM TICKETS comprising 1½d light blue, 2d green, 2½d red/white, and 3d green (not punched) for ordinary journeys, together with a 1d white Workman’s Single (not punched). All but one have Bell Punch Uxbridge imprints with dates in 1924 /25. This title was used from 1912 to the mid-1920s. (8) | £55 |
| 237 | GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY – NORTHERN HEIGHTS LINE. An issued 1st single from Cranley Gardens (Bd), together with issued 3rd singles from Alexandra Palace Station, Cranley Gardens, Crouch End, East Finchley, Edgware, 2 x Finchley Church End, Highgate, High Barnet, Mill Hill (renamed 9/1912), Stroud Green, Totteridge, 2 x Woodside Park for Nth Finchley. (15) | £80 |
| 238 | THE NATIONAL STEAM CAR CO. LTD. Three named stage BUS TICKETS – 1d white, 2d blue, and 9d blue/red – from the Oxford Circus to Sidcup ‘Summer Sundays’ route which operated between April and October 1911. (3) | £90 |
| 239 | NORTH & SOUTH WESTERN JUNCTION RAILWAY: Issued blue 2nd singles with destination numbers from Gunnersbury, Richmond; green 3rd single with destination numbers Acton N&SW; brown 3rd singles with destination numbers Gunnersbury, Kew Gardens; brown 3rd single South Acton to Alexandra Pal. Station (/), complete 2nd return with destination numbers Acton N&SW; plus three audit issues – 3rd r/f Privilege Return Richmond NL (L&NW style) and ‘3rd Class or Rail Motor’ single and return Kew Bridge, both overstamped ‘Specimen’. (10) | £180 |
| 240 | GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY: A white 2d punch type Rail Motor Car ticket for the service between Defiance and Plympton in pre-grouping days. Names include Wingfield Villas Halt, which closed in June 1921. (1) | £260 |
| 241 | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A collection of perhaps 300 Edmondson size thin card and paper tickets – mainly railway, but including the odd tram / bus issue. Covers a wide selection of companies. Several tickets bear dates from the 1930s and 1940s, while one – from the CB&QRR – appears to have been issued in 1874. The lot also includes a Baltimore & Ohio all lines passes from 1938. (Qty) | £35 |
| 242 | ASHOVER LIGHT RAILWAY: An unused buff coloured Edmondson card ‘Free Ticket’ in VGC. The ticket bears the inscription ‘JOHN MAY, Manager’, who was the Secretary and General Manager from 1924 (the year before the line opened) to 1927. The low serial number indicates that few of these were actually issued. (1) | £50 |
| 243 | LONDON BUS SERVICE/ROUTE 12 comprising 14 LGOC & Associated Cos. BUS TICKETS, 3 LPTB ‘Fareboard’ issues and 1 L.T. BUSES geographical print for this Acton/Willesden – Croydon route, including 12S, 12X and 112 variations. Values up to 6d plus Cheap Mid-Day and 5d & 6d Return tickets. (18) | £26 |
| 244 | GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY collection of over 1,500 LUGGAGE LABELS mostly square type G77, but a number of other types noted also, including G84/1 and G84/2. A small selection of parcels labels and other paperwork is included also. Some duplication, but some rarities also noted. (Qty) | £170 |
| 245 | CAMBRIAN RAILWAYS cream coloured free PLATFORM TICKET from ‘WELSHPOOL STN.’ There is a section of paper missing from the middle top of the ticket, but this should not detract from this rare example. (1) | £70 |
| 246 | PLYMOUTH TRAMWAYS: A pink 1d punch type TRAM TICKET from the PLYMOUTH, STONEHOUSE & DEVONPORT TRAMWAYS CO., available between Devonport/Edgcume Siding/Plymouth (/), together with named stage issues from PLYMOUTH CORPORATION TRAMWAYS comprising 1d white (Routes 1-3 &7), 1½d mauve (Routes 1, 3 &7), 1½d mauve (Routes 6-6-8-9-9A & 10) and 2d blue (Routes 2 & 2A). (5) | £50 |
| 247 | METROPOLITAN RAILWAY: Singles issued in the 19th century comprising Aldgate (dated 1885). Aldersgate Street (1898 – renamed 1/11/1910), Baker St. East (1894 /), Edgware Road (1895 /), Farringdon Street (1882 – 3rd Parly; excellent cond.) Finchley Road South Hampstead (1891 - / renamed 1914), Gower Street (1893 – renamed 1/11/1909), King’s Cross (1895), Moorgate Street (1893 – renamed 24/10/1894), Portland Road (1890 – renamed 1/3/1917), Praed Street Padn (1893 /) Swiss Cottage (1892 – closed 18/8/1940). (12) | £90 |
| 248 | THE COVENTRY ELECTRIC TRAMWAYS CO. 1d white named stage roll type TRAM TICKET in excellent condition. This undertaking took over the Coventry & District Tramways steam line in 1895, subsequently electrifying and extending the system. The tramway was purchased by Coventry Corporation on 1/1/1912. The ticket includes stages for all routes and was therefore printed in 1900 or later. (1) | £110 |
| 249 | NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY: An unused single ‘FOR ONE HUNTING HORSE RETURNING FROM HUNT’ from Linlithgow to Haymarket. Face in VGC; minor marking on (blank) back from previous mounting. (1) | £150 |
| 250 | LONDON & INDIA DOCKS COMPANY green 3rd single South Dock to Millwall Docks, dated 21/5/191x and in excellent condition apart from a minor mounting mark on the back. The stations opened on 18th December 1871 and closed on 4th May 1926. (1) | £210 |
| 251 | SOUTH EASTERN & CHATHAM RAILWAY T1 Red Blob PLATFORM TICKET Wellington College, faintly dated 26/2/1921 and in VGC. This station was renamed Crowthorne on 17/6/1928. (1) | £430 |
| 252 | SE&CR JOINT LINES comprising an issued CROYDON & OXTED JOINT LINE 3rd single Oxted to Cannon Street (dated 11/5/1904) and an issued WOODSIDE & SOUTH CROYDON JOINT LINE 3rd single Catford Bridge to Selsdon Road (dated 13/1/1912). (2) | £120 |
| 253 | LCC TRAMWAYS (46)/LPTB TRAMWAYS (14): A collection of punch type TRAM TICKETS loose mounted on card in an album, with historical notes. The tickets bear codes 80, 81, 88, 75 and 89 and are from Services 81, 7, 57, 55EX, 7E, 71 and 8. A number of tickets bearing code 1 from the East Ham and West Ham areas are also included. Condition is mainly very good. See note at Lot 18. (60) | £80 |
| 254 | RAILWAY AIR SERVICES LTD. A 4¾” x 3½” green/white Passengers LUGGAGE IN ADVANCE LABEL for the London and Isle of Wight Service, in conjunction with Spartan Air Lines Ltd. This company was formed on 2/2/1933 and was the first to fly for the railway companies – in May 1933 – after making its inaugural flights between London-Heston and Cowes on 14/4/1933. Railway Air Services introduced its own fleet of aircraft in 1934. Spartan merged with two other companies to form British Airways Ltd. on 1/10/1935. (1) | £140 |
| 255 | SOUTHERN RAILWAY T1A red blob PLATFORM TICKET from Herne Hill. In VGC and dated 19/6/1925. (1) | £220 |
| 256 | PROCTOR OF LONGTON: A comprehensive collection of 62 punch type BUS TICKETS bearing 6 different titles – 3 x Potteries Saloon Service F. Proctor & Sons Longton [one endorsed ‘first issue; one spelt ‘Protor’]; 6 x Potteries Saloon Service F. Proctor & Son Longton; 1 x Potteries Saloon Service Proctor & Co. Longton; 4 x Potteries Saloon Service W. Proctor & Co. Longton; 25 x F. Proctor & Son Bus Service – Longton; 23 x F. Proctor & Son. Half of the tickets were printed by Keates Ltd., Hanley, and half by Williamson. (62) | £100 |
| 257 | LM&SR / BR(M) LEICESTER TO RUGBY AND HINCKLEY: Issued whole Edmondsons comprising LMS – 2 x Broughton Astley, Croft, Elmesthorpe, Leicester; BR – Blaby, 3 x Broughton Astley, 5 x Countesthorpe, Hinckley, 4 x Leire Halt, 4 x Ullesthorpe, 4 x Wigston Glen Parva, Wigston South. (27) | £55 |
| 258 | LEA BRIDGE TRAMWAY CO. 3d green punch type HORSE TRAM TICKET for journeys between Clapton and Epping Forest, Clapton and Leyton Station, Hoe Street Station and Stratford Broadway, and Bakers Arms and Forest Gate Station. This concern was taken over by Leyton District Council on 1/6/1905. (1) | £180 |
| 259 | BR(W) SHREWSBURY, HEREFORD AND BORDERS all issued all different whole including from Broome, Cleobury Mortimer, Eardisley, Fawley, Four Oaks Halt, Glasbury on Wye, Hanwood, Hay on Wye, Kinnersley, Onibury, Ross on Wye, Talgarth, Three Cocks, Tram Inn, Weston-Under-Penyard Halt, Woofferton, etc. (25) | £120 |
| 260 | GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY: A buff 3rd single from The Hawthorns to Old Hill, numbered ‘000’ and dated 25/12/1931 – the opening day of this halt. The ticket is a little soiled, but still very collectable. How many other stations were opened on Christmas Day? At that time it was normal for football teams to play on Christmas Day – the occasion being a local derby between West Bromwich Albion, whose ground was adjacent to the halt, and Birmingham City (who won 1-0). The return fixture was played on Boxing Day. (1) | £80 |
| 261 | SOUTHERN RAILWAY PLATFORM TICKETS FROM STATIONS IN THE WEST COUNTRY comprising T2A Torrington; T2B Braunton, Camelford, Padstow (slight corner damage): T3 Barnstaple Jc. No.2, Ilfracombe, Launceston, North Tawton, Okehampton, Tavistock No.1, Tavistock No.2, Topsham, Wadebridge, Yeovil Town. A number of tickets bear dates in 1948 and 1952. (14) | £210 |
| 262 | SOMERSET & DORSET LINE/BOURNEMOUTH AREA: BR(W/S) issued whole Edmondsons from Bason Bridge, 3 x Bath Green Park, 2 x Binegar, Evercreech Junction, Evercreech New, 3 x Highbridge for Burnham on Sea, Midsomer Norton South, 2 x Radstock North, Templecombe, Wincanton, together with audit/undated tickets from Henstridge, 4 x Midsomer Norton South, 3 x Shepton Mallet Charlton Road, a Trains Illustrated special ticket for 25/4/1954, an LMS single Bristol TM to Bournemouth West, Southern Railway issues from Bournemouth West and Wimborne, and two BR(S) issues from Bournemouth West. (30) | £170 |
| 263 | LGOC (13), LGOC & ASSOCIATED Cos (14) fareboard geographical punch type BUS TICKETS comprising LGOC headed from Services 3 to 96; Associated Cos headed from Routes 1 to 67. Mostly VGC. (27) | £40 |
| 264 | GWR CONSTITUENT COMPANIES selection of over 150 LUGGAGE LABELS comprising examples from Barry, Cornwall, Rhymney, Brecon & Merthyr and Taff Vale railways. A small number of parcels labels are included also. Minor duplication of some destinations. (Qty) | £210 |
| 265 | BR (M) 1d Red Diamond PLATFORM TICKETS: Altrincham & Bowdon (two different one (/)), Northampton Castle, Nottingham Victoria (two different), Oldham Clegg Street, Preston SO and PO, Primrose Hill, Rock Ferry, St Albans Abbey, St Annes-on-the-Sea, St Pancras A and B (two different), Salford, Skipton, Stockport Tiviot Dale, Timperley, Walsall, Watford Junction 1, West Kirby W. A mix of Railway Executive and BTC conditions of issue. (22) | £160 |
| 266 | EXETER CORPORATION TRAMWAYS named stage punch type TRAM TICKETS comprising 1d white, 1d white / red (with skeleton ‘R’ overprint), 1½d red, 1½d mauve Workman, and a 3d grey with both geographical and numerical stages. The lot also includes a 3d purple print (with skeleton ‘R’ overprint) and a 1d white Workmen ticket from EXETER CORPORATION TRANSPORT. (7) | £50 |
| 267 | GREAT SOUTHERN & WESTERN RAILWAY selection comprising 7 issued including Cobh Queenstown, Fermoy, Fethard, Lisduff, Nenagh, etc. and 7 audit whole; 19 severed halves. Condition of one or two items rather poor. (14wh 19hlf) | £55 |
| 268 | LCC TRAMS/TRAMWAYS selection of six early style and four later geographical punch type TRAM TICKETS at 1d, 1½d, 2½d, 3d and 4d fares. VGC. (10) | £45 |
| 269 | PRE-GROUPING AND PRE-NATIONALISATION MISCELLANY all issued comprising L&YR from Waterfoot for Newchurch, NER from Whitby West Cliff, SE&C & L&SWR from Wandsworth Road Plat., LNER from Peebles and from Stobs. (5) | £65 |
| 270 | SOUTH WALES PRE-GROUPING MISCELLANY comprising GWR 3rd single Abertillery to Bargoed & Aber Bargoed (rn 1/7/1924), L&NWR 3rd single Swansea Victoria to Swansea Bay, RHONDDA & SWANSEA BAY RAILWAY undated 1st single Cwmavon (rn 1/7/1902) to Swansea, together with severed halves from 2 x BARRY RAILWAY, 2 X GWR (including Dynevor – rn 1/10/1904), 1 x L&NWR, 1 x R&SBR. (3wh 6hlf) | £70 |
| 271 | BR(M) EX-L&YR LINES AROUND BLACKBURN AND BOLTON all issued and all different stations apart from Blackburn and Bolton (which show different office identification). Stations include Accrington, Adlington Lancs, Bamber Bridge, Brinscall, Cherry Tree, Chorley, Entwistle, Feniscowles, Great Harwood, Hapton, Heapey, Huncoat, Mill Hill (Lancs), Pleasington, Rishton, Simonstone, Turton & Edgworth, Withnell, etc. (40) | £80 |
| 272 | WEST LONDON EXTENSION RAILWAY issued L&NWR and GWR prints for the journey between Battersea and Chelsea & Fulham, in VGC. Both stations closed on 21/10/1940. (2) | £26 |
| 273 | LONDON STREET TRAMWAYS selection of later geographical punch type HORSE TRAM TICKETS comprising 1d Hampstead Heath – Angel, 1d Swain’s Lane – Holborn, 2d Kings Cross – Finsbury Park, 2d Swain’s Lane – Holborn. Taken over by North Metropolitan Tramways on 13/11/1897. (4) | £85 |
| 274 | SOUTHERN RAILWAY: A selection of 45 issued whole Edmondsons, most in VG or excellent condition, 27 of which bear dates in the 1930s. Includes closed stations such as Isfield, Mortehoe, Rowfant, Westerham, and West Hoathly, and a 3rd single from Alton to Basingstoke via Herriad, which was closed to passenger traffic in 1932. (45) | £120 |
| 275 | PLATFORM TICKET MISCELLANY comprising SR T3 – Ryde St. Johns Road; British Railways – Kidderminster; BTC 1d – Haslemere, Hither Green No.2, Leamington Spa General, London Bridge No.1, Petersfield, Ryde St. Johns Road, Wallington No.2; BTC 2d – Adisham, Brookwood, Esher, Waterloo No.8; BRB 3d – Clapham Junction LL, London Bridge No.6, Ryde St. Johns Road; BRB unpriced – Alton; BRB Multiprinter – 3 x London Euston (1 with green diamond), London Kings Cross; 4 x BRB green diamond unpriced, 1 x British Rail, 1 x Railtrack, 1 x LT 3d (West Kensington), 9 x AA horizontal (1 BR, 3 BTC, 5 BRB). (37) | £45 |
| 276 | LEEDS CITY TRAMS geographical punch type TRAM TICKETS comprising ½d green, 1d blue (2), 1½d white (2), 2d pink and 2d white, 2½d mauve, 3d brown, 4½d white. Three have Sellotape stains on back, VGC otherwise. (10) | £40 |
| 277 | LMS/BR(W/M) FORMER CAMBRIAN LINES comprising: GWR issued from 2 x Afon Wen, 6 x Barmouth, Criccieth, 2 x Minffordd; undated/audit from 4 x Llandebr & Pensarn, Moat Lane, Montgomery, Penrhyndeudraeth, Penychain, Talsarnau; BR issued from Borth, Cemmes Road, Harlech, Minffordd, Montgomery, Newtown, Penychain, Pwllheli, Welshpool, plus a single from Cork to Oswestry. (30) | £120 |
| 278 | LONDON TRANSPORT GREEN LINE COACHES: A small collection of 25 Pre-war BUS TICKETS from various services, many of which just bear the LPTB title. Condition is generally good. See note at Lot 18. (25) | £140 |
| 279 | LM&SR (HIGHLAND SECTION): An all issued selection including from Aberfeldy, Ballinluig, Boat of Garten, Culrain, Evanton, Foulis, Kingussie, Grantown-on-Spey and Scotscalder, plus a couple of severed halves. (14wh 2hlf) | £65 |
| 280 | DISTRICT RLY (6); METROPOLITAN RLY (6) issued whole. The DR issues are 1920s/30s and includes a whole Rtn (/), the MR issues are from the 1890s and include three of the earlier style with upper and lower case lettering, all feature red “O” or “I” overprints. (12) | £40 |
| 281 | LNER AND CONSTITUENT COMPANIES. An all issued selection, comprising GER – 1st blank single Fulbourne to Cambridge; GNR – 3rd sgl Muswell Hill to Finchley Church End, 2nd sgl Oakleigh Park to Wood Green, 1st sgl Woodside Pk for Nth Finchley to East Finchley, plus 7 severed halves; LNER – 26 whole, including closed stations such as Highgate, Priory Halt, St. Albans LNE, Wheathampstead, and 5 Second Class singles. Two machine issues are also included in the lot. (32wh 7hlf) | £150 |
| 282 | GWR THEATRICAL PRINTS comprising “Oh Susannah Company” Leamington – Oxford, “Skirt Danger Theatrical Co” Gloucester – Paddington, “Maude Fergusson’s Theatrical Co” Oxford – Boston, “Dandy Doctor’s Theatrical Co” Swindon – Aldershot Town. All Parly 3rd Class and dated between 1898 and 1903. VGC. (4) | £55 |
| 283 | THE EASTERN NATIONAL OMNIBUS CO. LTD. A collection of 49 Williamson-printed punch type BUS TICKETS, together with 62 by Oller, and 3 insert Setrights. Four of the Williamson prints have named stages, otherwise all the punch tickets are numerical. There are 15 different values in the Williamson tickets and 17 in the Oller. Some values also have design and colour differences. While the remainder duplicate values/styles, there are invariably differences in the adverts on the backs – what a variety of slogans there were for Bovril!. Wartime slogans on the backs of a number of the Oller issues identify the approximate dates of printing. (114) | £20 |
| 284 | GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY selection of type G72 and G75 LUGGAGE LABELS with printed origin station. Origin stations are: G72: Basingstoke, Berwyn, Chester, Frampton, Heytesbury, Newbury, Ruabon, Salisbury, Tiddington, Westbury, Weymouth; G75: Chard, Dunster, Norton Fitzwarren, Sandford & Banwell, Shrewsbury, Swimbridge, Tiverton Junction, Trawsfynydd, Washford. Mostly in VGC and includes some rare examples not listed in RPS Handbook H8. (20) | £210 |
| 285 | BR/BTC(E) Red Diamond PLATFORM TICKETS: BR 1d (Rly Exec conds): Long Melford, Nth Woolwich, Pitsea, Ponders End, St Ives LNE, Shoeburyness, Southend-on-Sea East, Upminster; 1d (BTC conds): Mablethorpe, Maryland, Seven Kings, Southend-on-Sea Vic, Stratford; BTC 1d: Spalding Town, Stratford Market, Tilbury Riverside, Upminster, Wanstead Park, West Green, Whittlesea, Wickford, Wood Street. (22) | £170 |
| 286 | LGOC (& ASSOCIATED COS.) pre-war ‘Fareboard’ BUS TICKETS at 2d, 3d and 4d values for a variety of routes including 2, 6, 12, 21X, 24, 37, 45, 54A, 69 & 369, 68 & 169, 73, 75, 96 and 112. All good/VGC. (20) | £70 |
| 287 | AROUND THE WIRRAL AND MERSEY: Issued L&NW AND GW JOINT RYS singles from Hadlow Road (closed 17/9/1956), Liverpool Landing Stage, Parkgate (closed 17/9/1956), Rock Ferry, West Kirby, together with issued pre-grouping prints from the MERSEY RAILWAY comprising Birkenhead Central, 4 x Hamilton Square (one to Storeton – renamed 1900; closed 3/12/1951 – excess paper on back), and Liverpool Central Low Level (two-piece return headed ‘M.T.RY’). (11) | £40 |
| 288 | SCOTTISH PUNCH TYPE TRAM AND BUS TICKET MISCELLANY comprising named stage issues from Dumbarton General Omnibus Co. Ltd. – long 2d white (/); Edinburgh Corp’n. Transport Dept. – small 1d white by GNP, and long issues at 1d yellow, 2 x 1d white, 2 x 2d pink, 3d yellow (all are different with Bell Punch 7-28 or four figure imprints and ‘Car’ in conditions); Glasgow Corp. Transport – 2d mauve (Clarkston to Southbrae Dr., with ‘car’ in conditions), Perth Corp.n Transport Dept. – 2 x 1½d green (minor printing differences – GNP/A.T. Ltd – and advert). The lot also includes numerical stage prints from Pitlochry Motor Co. Ltd. and The Scottish Motor Traction Co. Ltd. (13) | £45 |
| 289 | BR(N) whole comprising 21 issued; 2 pre-dated; 5 audit. 12 are from closed stations. Of note are the destinations of two issues from Hull: Boothferry Park and Springhead Halt; also issues from Riccall and Selby to different versions of Rowntrees Halt. In the audits of note are Battyeford (cl. 5/10/1953), Cliff Common (cl. 20/9/1954) and Haxby (closed to regular traffic 22/9/1930 - obviously used afterwards for excursion traffic). (28) | £140 |
| 290 | GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY – BRISTOL AND THE WEST: Issued pre-grouping whole Edmondsons, comprising Bristol TM D, Bristol TM P2, Flax Bourton, Penzance Station (bike insurance), St. Austell (Policeman on Duty), Saltash, Torquay (bike, etc.), Wellington Som., together with an audit Tourist return from Chippenham to Lynton, and an audit Soldier, Seaman &c. on Leave return from Torquay to Portsmouth Town. (10) | £150 |
| 291 | LONDON AREA MISCELLANY: A mixed bag, comprising GNR – issued from Finchley Church End, Highgate; L&SWR – issued Epsom; LB&SCR – issued Forest Hill, Dorking; SR – issued Crystal Palace HL, Kensington A. Rd., Kensington Olympia, 2 x Upper Sydenham, a free pass, 5 audit; LMS&GW Jt. – issued Kensington Olympia; LNER – undated Custom House; LM&SR – issued Belmont, 2 audit; District Rly – 6 issued; District & GNP&B Rlys – South Kensington; Met. – King’s Cross 1; PLATFORM TICKETS: 6 x LNER (Alexandra Palace St’n, Crouch End, Forest Gate EO, Muswell Hill, Noel Park & Wood Green, Silvertown); 5 x British Railways (Cranley Gardens, Clapham Jc. No.4, Crystal Palace HL, Lordship Lane, Stroud Green. All VGC. (40) | £130 |
| 292 | BR(M): A collection of 200 whole Edmondsons, of which 66% are issued and the rest audit. Includes a good number of closed and unstaffed stations. Burneside, Chester Northgate, Dunstable North, Dunstable Town, Luton Bute Street, Rugeley Town, Scale Hall noted in the issued tickets. (200) | £170 |
| 293 | LONDON TRANSPORT (BUSES) all different named-stage punch type BUS TICKETS from Routes 40 and 56 in wartime and post-war periods. A selection of tickets is offered to show changes in stages and routes during the periods covered. Condition is mostly good/VG. See note at Lot 18. (85) | £90 |
| 294 | LONDON & SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY mixed collection of L92 and L93 series LUGGAGE LABELS on white paper all to destinations off the LSWR system, the stations beginning with the letters “L” through to “W”, plus a small selection to Lynton & Barnstaple Railway destinations. Some rarities and misspellings included. All in good/VGC. See also lot 114. (115) | £340 |
| 295 | BTC PLATFORM TICKETS: BTC(N) 1d Red Diamond: Darlington Bank Top, Gateshead West, High Shields, Leeds City, Pocklington, Whitby Town; BTC(N) 2d Red Diamond: Hebburn, Jarrow S, Malton Pontefract Baghill, Seaham; BTC(E) 1d Red Diamond: Winchmore Hill, Wisbech East, Yarmouth Beach; BTC(S) 2d Red Diamond: Lancing, Sandown, Shorncliffe 1, Staines Cen 2, Sutton, Tonbridge 1, Ventnor 1 and 2, Victoria 7, Virginia Water, Wadhurst, Wateringbury, Westerham (two different), Westgate-on-Sea 3, Winchester City 3. (30) | £130 |
| 296 | INSERT SETRIGHT BUS TICKETS: A collection of 173 issued examples from 40 different operators, of which 23 are longer than the standard size. Operators include AA Motor Services, Aberfeldy Motor Coaches, Allen’s, City Coach Co., Dunoon Motor Services, ITES Co. Ltd., Lennox Transport Ltd., Silver Star Motor Services, Tor Bus Service, and Young’ Bus Service. One ticket bears a stamped date in 1938. (173) | £60 |
| 297 | GREAT WESTERN & GREAT CENTRAL JOINT LINE. Issued GW&GC Joint pre-Nat. prints from Beaconsfield, Denham, 2 x High Wycombe Down, Princes Risboro’, Ruislip & Ickenham, Seer Green Halt, 2 x West Wycombe, together with audit tickets from Aylesbury, Aylesbury Joint, Haddenham (GW print), Little Kimble (GW print), issued GWR prints from 2 x Beaconsfield, West Wycombe; audit from Denham; BR issued tickets from 2 x Aylesbury Town, 2 x Denham, 2 x Denham Golf Club Platform, Gerrards Cross, Haddenham, 2 x High Wycombe, 2 x Marylebone, Princes Risborough, West Ruislip for Ickenham, and 2 x ladder type Aylesbury to Princes Risboro’. (33) | £180 |
| 298 | LONDON AREA HORSE TRAM TICKETS: Three Whiting style issues from the SOUTH LONDON TRAMWAYS CO. (2 x 2d; 1 x 3d), together with two later 1d types from LONDON STREET TRAMS CO. and a full geographical Bell Punch 1d for METROPOLITAN ELECTRIC TRAMWAYS for the Highgate to Barnet service (faded). Mostly VGC. (6) | £30 |
| 299 | LMS - SOUTHERN PART OF SYSTEM all issued - 18 from closed stations. Includes 2nd class from Broad Street and a couple of insert adverts. Stations include Bedford St. Johns (Bd), Belmont, Blisworth, Boxmoor & Hemel Hempstead, Brackley, Bradwell, Buckingham, Haggerston, Marsh Gibbon & P., Poplar (EI Rd), Rickmansworth, Stanbridgeford, Swanbourne, Turvey, Weedon, Winslow, etc. (30) | £200 |
| 300 | GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY issued 3rd Sgl North Greenwich & Cubitt Town to Millwall Jun, dated 14/3/1907. In good condition, but with a minor foxing mark on the front. Both stations closed on 4th May 1926. (1) | £25 |
