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London Transport Go As You Please ticket -a tourist bus/Underground rover facility from 1975.
Free transfers issued here to other worthwhile sites, mostly ticket-related. Lengthy stopovers, far from being prohibited, are positively recommended.

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Tickets and ticket-collecting 
(including transfers, tokens and ticket equipment)

Europe

100 Jahre Heidebahn

German rail photo site with several pages of rail tickets from Hermann Bunke

Alan's Collectors Emporium

Alan Edward's mostly rail site with some tickets - Malta and Gozo bus tickets, Croydon Tram(link) and a Chilworth railway tickets page

Les Autobus du Toulon

Part of Roland le Corff's extensive historical site on transport in Toulon, with a good page showing Klein-Massot tickets and machine, and modern CAMP magnetic cards. [French]

Barcelona Postal

A general site about Barcelona with some pages of tickets. In English.

Bilety komunikacji

Tickets from many Polish towns and cities; all in Polish by Marek Jurgowiak.

Bilety komunikacji miejskiej

Extensive pages of Polish tickets from Jacek Śmietański. In Polish.

Billettautomaten der Schweiz

Michael Vock's detailed site on Swiss ticket machinery - makers, models and index of Swiss operators with equipment used. (in German)

Boletos Edmondson

Carlos Skerk's album of edmondsons from South America, including over 600 from Argentina.

BusesIreland - bus ticket machines

Fotopic site with bus ticket machines etc from Ulsterbus and UTA

Blue Line Buses

Historical site all about this now-gone Doncaster independent bus operator with a  page of tickets here. Submitted by Bill Brinkley.

Bus Stop

Doris Hazell's account of her life as an LT tram, later, bus 'clippie' (conductress). No pix of tickets but plenty of reminiscences about issuing them.

Central SMT

Gerry Cushley's site all about the "Central", with good collection of CSMT and local independent tickets.

Classic Bus Page

Dick Gilbert's bus preservation site with a page of 'Vintage Bus Tickets' - fifties tickets from London, Eastbourne and elsewhere.

Collecció Octavi Ripollés

Good site with Edmondsons from many Spanish railways.  

Country Bus

Histories and reminiscences of Dorset bus operators, (plus some from Somerset, Scotland and Normandy too), with a few tickets.

De Kaartjesbrief

News on tickets from the Netherlands. (Dutch)

Expo tickets

A collector of transport tickets among other types. (Portuguese)

Father TIM

Dadwasp's fledgling site all about TIM machine tickets

Glasgow Transport Badges

Site all about Glasgow Corporation Transport and its successors. Includes tickets, tokens and ticket machine.

Internet Museum of the Polish People's Republic

A large site with historical pages on a wealth of topics including everyday articles - rail and urban transport and long-distance bus service tickets. Suggested by Martin Bienwald.

John Rylands University Library, Manchester

Page relating to the Edmondson Railway Collection of tickets and Thomas Edmondson memorabilia

Joyce's World of
Transport Eclectica

A varied railway site that includes a good section on British Rail tickets, before and after APTIS.  Joyce, incidentally is not a lady, but the maker of the station clock at Whitchurch, Salop. Thanks to Norman Kemp for this link, and a little mention of his bus empire is here.

Ken Kasahara's Photo 
Gallery - Bus Tickets

A page of Turkish bus tickets with text in - Japanese!  Good scans.

Fahrscheinwesen.de

David Jürgens's links etc on ticket and fare subjects, recently revised. (German)

Lisboa em Movimento

Excellent site all about tickets, with pages from many countries. Scan and send some from your town or city! (Portuguese)

The Llandudno & Colwyn Bay Electric Railway

Dewi William's site with a page of tickets here.

The Luso Pages - Lisbon Transport

John Laidlar's comprehensive site covering bus, tram, rail, cablecar, ferry etc, plus transport museums, recommended reading and some Carris tickets

National Mining 
Memorabilia Association

All about mining, but with some bus and railway tickets for colliery services.

National Railway Museum, York

Brief details of their extensive ticket collection for serious researchers.

NETtrams.net

Unofficial but comprehensive site all about NET - Nottingham Express Transit, and including extensive pages on Tickets. Submitted by Bill Brinkley.

Pete's Trolleybus Site

Mostly about trolleybuses but with a page on ticketing systems.

Piletikogus

Courtesy of Tarvo Puusepp, a site which includes all sorts of tickets from Estonia (and the rest of the world) - bus, tram, trolleybus, railway and cinema, theatre, museum etc. tickets as well. Nicely laid-out, and no Estonian needed to find your way about - there's an English version too. All very good.

Platform Tickets

Michael Crow's Platform Ticket site - tickets for sale or exchange, plus pages on the history of railways in south east England.

The Rail Ticket Gallery

Roger Marks' extensive site devoted (mainly) to British Rail tickets and ticket machinery. Excellent !

The Railwayana Page

Robin Gibbon's pages on railwayana auctions, including a page of Chinese tickets.

Rhätische Bahn

Extensive site devoted to this Swiss line, with a page of tickets. (German text).

Robert Forsythe - 
Transport Publicity Stockist

Comprehensive site includes section on modern BR tickets for sale, plus Excel database of stations/types. Trade your surplus APTIS, SPORTIS etc here.

Rossendale Transport Society

All about Haslingden and Rawtenstall Corporation Transports and Rossendale Transport. Includes a brief history of the TIM ticket issuing machine and a pic of a young lady wearing one. Plus some tickets. Also Hassy bus lingo. (Hassy = Haslingden)

Sammlernet

German general collectors site, with section on tickets. (in German)

Schönes Wochenende

Martin Bienwald's site devoted to the weekend tickets (SWT) issued on German state and regional rail systems. Extensively illustrated! An excellent site!  [in German]

Strasbourg Tram

Unofficial site with section on tickets and explanation of machine imprints etc.

Das Strassenbahnjournal

Extensive site with section on Vienna's tickets - bus, tram, rail, good pictures and list of tramstop codes. [German]

Taro's Fahrscheine

Taro Breuer's nicely laid-out site on German rail, bus and tram tickets. (in German)

Thomas Edmondson

Short biography with pictures of ticket press and dating press.

Ticket

Jürg Tschumi's superb site about Swiss (and European) ticket practice, with subscription details to his bi-monthly magazine 'ticket - aktuelle Informationen über die Fahrausweise des öffentlichen Verkehrs' paper or CD version. [in German]

Tickets du Monde

French site with worldwide tickets

Tickets in Poland

Agata Deresinska's brief review (in English) of tickets in Poland, with links to her ticket album - mostly Poland, but many other countries represented. 

Tickets Online

Willem Boorsma's Collection of World-wide Transport Tickets (Railway, Air, Metro, Subway, Bus, Boat/Ferry, Parking, Cableways) and Entrancecards (Friesland, Tickets before 1950, Rollcards of the Netherlands)

Tillyweb

Former TTS member, John Tilly's life and times. Signalling, level-crossings and some pages of tickets from the South Tynedale Railway, Leighton Buzzard Narrow Gauge Railway, Hong Kong and Japan. 

Toby & John's Local Transport History

Good pictorial site devoted to south-east London. Numerous pages of London tickets - tram, bus, bell punch through to machine tickets, Travelcards etc.

Train Tickets Collection

Serried ranks of Edmondsons and Schuster machine tickets from Luxembourg.

The Tram Tickets of Barcelona

Illustrated potted history (in English) of Barcelona's tickets back to 1800s, by Juan Domingo Ventura, plus details of his book on the subject.

Les Tramways du Pays de Charleroi

Dierick Francoise's site with nice pages of current and recent tickets [French].

Trams of Hungary

Varga Akos Endre's site on Hungary and elsewhere with a page of tickets. [mostly Hungarian, with some English and German pages

Transport of Delight

John Bradshaw's extensive site mostly about transport in Croydon, including a good selection of SMET tram tickets. Now has an extensive gallery of UK and Irish tramway tickets from many systems.

Transport Tickets from Malta

Paul Xuerab's new and extensive site  all about Malta and Gozo, their buses, ferries and their tickets

Vintage Calculators        Web Museum

All fascinating stuff but nowt to do wi' tickets, except for this page which gives the origins of the Bell Punch Co. (who in later life made electronic calculators), taken from "Modern Transport" in 1948.

Victorian London

Educational site with wide range of topics including Transport, with a b/w page of tickets.

Australasia

Hobart Municipal Tramways

Historical site with a page of old tickets. Unfortunately site only works with IE

The Metcard Story
... so far

Rob O'Regan' site for all you could possibly want to know about Melbourne's Metcards. 

Rail, Tram & Bus Union

Not much about tickets, but does include period pic of kerbside conductress in Sydney ("beret girl") equipped with Ultimate ticket machine.

North America

American 
Vecturist Association

For collectors of transport tokens.

Denver Rail Heritage Society

Heritage trolley line (Platte Valley Trolley) site with pix of Denver tokens

The Farebox

Sample issues of the AVA monthly newsletter

The Story of the Johnson Farebox Company

Michael J. Sheridan's fascinating site with pics of Johnson and other fareboxes over the years

Metrocard Collector Page

NYC Metrocard checklist and pics.

New York Subway - 
Brief History of Fare Control

Evolution of the turnstile, token and Metrocard. Part of the NYC Subway Resources, which also includes NYC Subway tokens and a brief review of Fare collection on the Boston 'T'.

Notes on the 
Collection of Transfers

Transcript of a book by Frank Folupa (pseudonym) about the American transfer system and how to collect transfers, first published in 1926.

Steamship China Collector

For collectors of crockery (well, some people think collecting tickets is odd!) from US steamship lines, but with good selection of steamship passes.

The Joe Korner 
New York Subway

Big Apple subway tokens, transfers - and the highly-collectible Metrocards. Plus tickets from the Long Island RR, Hudson Tubes, NY Central and the 'standard railroad of the world' - the PRR.

San Francisco Cable Car Museum

Excellent site all about the famous cable cars, with a pic of an early fare register in the virtual tour.

Texas and Pacific Railway Railfans Depot

A page of old T&PR tickets.

The Ticket Counter

Some pages of modern urban tickets from physics professor Jon Bell.  

Western New York 
Railroad Archive

Very comprehensive historical site, with a few early tickets here.

Central / South America

Agrupacion Billetes 
Tipo Edmondson
 

Enthusiastic Argentine society devoted to the Edmondson ticket.

Boletomania

Some pages of railway tickets against an interesting, if slightly distracting background (Argentina)

Ferrocarriles de Ayer y Hoy

Comprehensive Argentine railfan site with several pages of modern tickets. Extensive links to other South American rail sites. (in Spanish)

Boletos de Buses de Chile

Pages of attractive bus tickets from Chile, suggested by Bruno Gallegos

El Ferrocarril en Internet

A few pages of tickets (Argentina)

The Panama Railroad

A nice site with a page of tickets here

Asia

Bangkok Tramways
1894-1968

A page about Bangkok's trams with a few tickets, plus good links to other tram and rail sites in south east Asia.

HK Tickets Collection Centre 

Quirky layout but nice pictures of Hong Kong and other tickets. Text mostly in Cantonese. Needs MS-Chinese Language support.

Ichiban

Mr N Takayama's Hiroshima-based rail site with three pages of Japanese tickets. In good English, with a comparison of English and Japanese teaching techniques as a bonus.

Indian Steam Railway Society

Good site with much on current and historical matters, including two extracts from the IRSS Newsletter about Indian railway tickets written by TTS member John King. 

JR Tickets

Site apparently all about Japan Railways tickets - some pix, but all text in Japanese.

KMB 1933 Page

Eric Lee's site devoted solely, (I think) to the Kowloon Motor Bus Co. with good selection of tickets. Requires MS Chinese Language support.

MRT tickets from 
around the world

Rapid transit tickets worldwide - mostly Far East, with good coverage of China and Japan. (in English)

Public Transport 
in Ulaan Baator

Some pages on tickets from Mongolia.

Public Transport Ticketing

Hubert Lam's site devoted to tickets from Hong Kong and Sydney - road and rail.

TЯAM!

Constantin Antonenko's Ukraine based site with scans of tram, bus, trolleybus, metro and rail tickets and much else. Mostly in Russian, but a few English pointers make it easy to find your way about. Excellent!

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Official transport sites with pages on tickets etc

Argentina

Metrovías "Subte"

Nicely-designed site on the Buenos Aires "Subte" metro with history and pictures, plus pages on the Subtepass and Subtecard. [Spanish only at the moment]

Australia

Metro Tasmania

Ascom Monétel, Wayfarer, AES and other tickets on their Ticket Systems pages.

Sydney Buses & Ferries

Magnetic cards on ticket pages

Brazil

Trensurb

Subway system in Porto Alegre, the capital of Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost state in Brazil. The Sistema de Bilhetagem Eletrônica - SCAP is described here, and illustrations of tickets, the Cartão Inteligente (smartcard), and a historical summary of farescales are here.  A very comprehensive site (in Portuguese).

Canada

Réseau de Transporte de Longeuil [RTL] 

Straightforward site for this Quebec bus and tram operator with a few pix of passes, and a history of fares (!) here. French only.

Czech Republic

Dopravní podnik hl. m. Prahy, a.s.

A simply-laid out site with a page of attractive tickets; also a link to the tram museum page. (English and German as well as Czech)

France

Aix en Bus - Aix-en-Provence

Commendably simple site with a page of tickets

Bibus - Brest

Quirky site, but with colourful tickets. Also a potted history.

Bus Océane - Le Havre

Tiny pics of tickets for Le Havre's buses and funicular. A Connex production.

BUSS - Saintes

Over-elaborate (and slow to load) site, with eventually some animated tickets. A triumph of form over function. Might be ok if you have broadband access.

CGTE - Bordeaux

A page of fares and tickets from our old friends Connex.

CTB - Besancon

Colourful tickets with snazzy names, pretty much like STAR, below.

Les bus de l'Etang - Vitrolles

Straightforward site with a page of tickets.

Sillages STGA - Antibes

Several pages of tickets (English and Italian versions as well as French).

SITCA - Autobus Aubagnais

Neat site with page of tickets.

STAR - Roanne

Jazzy site with pop-up pics of tickets with hip names - the Cool, the Jeans, the Sesame Cards and many more.

TAM - Montpellier

Tram and bus fares plus tickets here.

TCAT - Troyes

Details and pics of their numerous magnetic cards.

TCRA - Avignon

Bright mag card pics but beset by slow graphics.

TUL - Laval

Another site overloaded with slow-loading graphics. Tickets here.

Twisto - CTCA - Caen

Crazy name, crazy site! Pics of snazzy new magnetic and smartcards that came in during January 2002

Germany

 

Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe [BVG]

Nicely-designed site with comprehensive service info and history, plus news about the Tick.et plastic card trial and forthcoming Metrocard system here. [English and German]

Münchner 
Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH [MVG]

Neat site with good selection of tickets shown in the fares section here. [German only]

Hungary

BKV - Budapest

Immaculate site covering public transport - all modes in the city and good selection of tickets.  Hungarian and English. Thanks to Bill B for this.

Iceland

Strætó bs

 Small pics of tickets and passes here.

India

Delhi Metro

India's new, state of the art metro, with suitably flash (and Flash) website. Try to skip the lengthy intro and then see the metro in action, with a page about the automatic fare collection system and pix of smartcard and token here. There's also a step-by-step guide to making a journey.

Metro Calcutta

Full detail of fares etc but no ticket pics yet.

Ireland

Dublin Bus

Useful site with plenty of mag-card tickets here.

Italy

ATAC Roma

A good site, with details and pics of tickets plus a pictorial history. English is a little shaky (but far better than my Italian!) Italian pages have details of forthcoming smartcard scheme

ATM - Milano

Neat site with pages of tickets and also a brief history. English/Italian

ATM Piombina

A page of attractive tickets.

Japan

TRTA - Tokyo 

Neatly-designed site with English version and some pages of current tickets.

Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau

English language site with details and pix of tickets here, including the oddly-named "No-My-Car-Day-Pass"

Korea

SMSC - Seoul

English version of a good site, with a few tickets here.

Mexico

Servicio de Transportes Electricos del D.F. - Mexico City

Excellent site with comprehensive details of bus, light rail and metro operations. Plus extensive historical pages, including tickets etc. In Spanish.

New Zealand

Waikato Regional Council

Hamilton City fare info including pix of Wayfarer TGX150 plus Bus-it smartcard.

Poland

MPL Krakow 

Pages illustrating current tickets. Polish only.

Portugal

Metropolitano de Lisboa

Stylish site with some pages of sample tickets. (English)

Russia

Dnepropetrovsk

One page of tickets from late 1990s. English text.

Moscow Metro

Good site with many tickets and tokens. All in Russian, but quite easy to find your way about.

Singapore

SMRT - Singapore

As you might expect, a super-efficient site with details of current, attractive tickets.

Spain

Global - Gran Canaria

Current and numerous obsolescent magnetic cards. Spanish only.

Guaguas Municipales - Gran Canaria

Current magnetic cards etc. Text in English and German.

Metro Bilbao

Neat site with details of tickets here.

TMB - Barcelona

Busy multi-modal - bus, tram, rail, funicular site with good range of current tickets. (English)

UK

Oyster Card

The long-awaited Transport for London smartcard scheme with pix etc.

USA

HARTLine - Hillsborough Area Rapid Transit

Includes pics of farebox and HARTride passes.

OCTA - Orange County Transportation Authority

Orange County Transportation Authority - comprehensive site that puts one over on Twin Cities (below) - forget animations - download a video showing you how to swipe a magcard, feed coins and bills into a GFI Genfare - "Board - Swipe - Ride".

Public Transit - Twin Cities Metro Area

Some pages on current Minneapolis / St Paul tickets and an animation showing how to insert them in a GFI Genfare farebox

 

 

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General transport enthusiast sites 
and link collections, some with ticket content

Belgian Railways

David van Neef's very professional site all about SNCB/NMBS, with masses of onward links. (also in French and Dutch)

Bergen Elektriske Sporvei

Heritage tram society in Norway with local TTS member involved. (Norwegian)

Bournemouth and Poole Buses and Trams

Kevin Clapcott's neat site on the immaculate yellow Bournemouth buses, trolleybuses and trams, plus Hants & Dorset, Royal Blue, Charlies Cars, Excelsior, Rossmore  and much else. A few tickets are a bonus.

Bruse's Funiculars

Another excellent site devoted to funiculars from Bruse LF Persson (English/Swedish)

Buses Worldwide

Premier organisation for those interested in buses on the far side of Dover.

Croydon Tramlink

The ace unofficial site by Stephen Parascandolo, with section on ticketing.

Der Nahverkehrswegweis

Jörg Bruchertseifer's index to transport operators / authorities in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein, with onward links. In German, but easy to follow, with good clickable maps.  An excellent site.

Electric Transport 
in South America

Allen Morrison's extensive link site covering everything that moves or moved by electricity in South America - tram , railway, trolleybus, funicular etc etc. Extensive!!

Essex Bus News

Webmaster's privilege: as member No.37, a plug for the Essex Bus Enthusiasts Group's super monthly mag devoted to news on First in Essex, Arriva serving Colchester, Southend, East Herts & Essex, Hedingham & District and all the smaller firms. 

Funimag

Web magazine all about Funiculars (and similar) by Michael Azéma. Excellent site - worldwide coverage of funiculars, pictures, how they work, history, past and present. (French/English)

Inter-Rail News

Good Italian railfan site with several pages of tickets. New contributions welcome! Mostly in Italian.

Light Rail Transit Association

Light rail worldwide with extensive links section and good news pages on current/planned systems.

Lincolnshire & East Yorkshire Transport Review

Old-established regional, all-modes newsletter, now with an online companion.

LOTS

The London bus society. Easy site with weekly news updates.

Metro Planet

Robert Schwandl's comprehensive worldwide coverage of metros, underground railways, subways, U-bahns T-bana and some tram/light rail systems. Call them what you will, here are maps, descriptions. pix, histories, in English and often in other languages too. Don't leave home without visiting this site first! Excellent!

NYC Subway Resources

Incredibly comprehensive site with title cleverly spelt out in NYC subway tokens. Also covers other US and world subways, metros, light rail. 

Paddle Steamer Resources

Extensive pages by Tramscape detailing operational paddlers and a historical database of paddleship resources - mainly European

Oxford & Chilterns Bus Page

Good news pages for bus operators in thsi area.

Rail-Info Switzerland

All you ever need to know about all the Swiss narrow-gauge lines.

RailPage Australia

Premier Aussie rail (and tram) server, with numerous related links down under.

RailServe

The Internet Railroad Directory: US rail server with over 7000 links world-wide and Antiques and Collectibles section.

UK Railways on the Net

Schlumberger-Sema guide to UK rail companies etc. Straightforward and easy-to-navigate.

The Railway Register

UK rail link site - comprehensive.

Riverboats, Steamboats, Sternwheelers, Sidewheelers

Dave Dawley's comprehensive site devoted to US riverboats (mostly Mississippi, but other areas too).

Roads & Road Transport History Association

The Association promotes, encourages and co-ordinates the study of the history of roads, road passenger transport and the carriage of goods.

Routes International

Massive Canadian site with transport (all modes), links worldwide and even a small ticket gallery

The Bus Station

Links to 4000 worldwide bus sites.

The Omnibus Society

The senior UK bus society.

The PSV Circle

If you are interested in comprehensive, and I do mean comprehensive coverage of British (and some overseas) buses - numbers, owners chassis and body makers - The PSV Circle is for you. 

Transports Urbains de France

Yves le Chanu's useful index of bus operators - Réseaux Bretons and Région Centre, listed under owning group - Keolis, Transdev, Connex, Verney etc. Plus fare structures too!

Trens & Cia

Brazilian railfan site with numerous links. (Portuguese)

ViajenBus

Argentinian express bus journey planner, with list of operators.

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Commercial ticket equipment, etc sites

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TTS Member sites - not necessarily with ticket content

DeeCee's Pump Clips

No tickets that I could find, but plenty of beer pump clips (the thingummijigs on beer pump handles in a pub that tell you what beer is in the barrel). Hic!

Father TIM

Dadwasp's fledgling site all about the TIM machine and its tickets