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Journal

Each month, members receive a fully‐illustrated full‐colour Journal,  covering news of bus, tram and railway tickets from the UK and overseas, plus feature articles of historical and current‐day interest, including the long‐established Talking Tickets column discussing British and Irish railway ticket historical topics. There are also book reviews, members advertisements and announcements of all the latest Society Ticket Distributions.

Besides regular news columns, recent issues contained features as below:

  • August 2025   Points from the Past ...  Latham's Services ... 25 years of Transport for London ... London & South Coast Motor Service Ltd ... Mystery Tickets ... Identification please" A Chesterfield Conundrum ...  Summer in Southend ... Rail Historical ... Centenaries & Anniversaries beyond the UK ...
  • July 2025   Points from the Past ...  25 years of Transport for London ... London & South Coast Motor Service Ltd ... The "WPM" Album ... Torquay and Paignton ... Identification please" A Chesterfield Conundrum ... Setright Registers Ltd.  ... the Ordit ... Ceylon ... Ultimates ... Setright Speed .... CAMP ... Private Enterprise TIMs (Australia) ... Bee Line Inc and Blue Bus ... the National Fare Register - LPTB Pay As You Board ... Ultimates abroad ... the Soloc ... Denmark ...  Rail Historical ... Some Scottish Oddments or Peculiarities  ... GER brass platform ticket ...
  • June 2025   Points from the Past ...  A day and a half in Coventry ...  Smaller operators who used Ultimates : Herrison Hopsital ... Early tram tickets in Europe ... Ultimates abroad ~ the Soloc ... N.B.C. (Libya) ... The Union Internationale des Transports Publics ...  Rail Historical  ... Centenaries and Anniversaries... Franchising ...  Newspaper Packers' Season Tickets ...  From the NVBS treasure-chest : Pilgrimage Tickets
  • May 2025   Points from the Past ...  Isle of Man Ultimates ...  Lille à l’ Heure Britannique (London Transport Gibsons abroad) ... Rawtenstall Corporation Tramways tokens ... Ivory Coaches ...  A day and a half in Coventry ... Coming soon ... Franchising ... Argentina : Rapidprinters ... and Evita ...  From the NVBS treasure-chest : Passes of the Hollandsche IJzeren Spoorwegmaatschappij (HSM)
  • April 2025  Hulleys of Baslow ... Points from the Past ...  Non-London Gibsons ...  Identification Please! ~ Guy's Ticket Punch ... The (Midland) Metro ... West Midlands Metro ... Rail Historical : Centenaries and Anniversaries ... INTIS Platform Ticket ... Last Train ~ Walsall to Dudley  France : Tickets post-pandemic and the New Regions ... From the NVBS treasure-chest : Short Frontier Traffic
  • March 2025  Points from the Past ...  Non-London Gibsons ...  Isle of Islay Postbus ... The People's League Freedom Bus ... Stock Tickets ...  The ABC of Hastings ... The Transport for Greater Manchester Bee Network ... Technology Update ... Rail Historical : Centenaries and Anniversaries ... Last train Chester to Ruthin ...  Accompanying the Passenger ...   From the NVBS treasure-chest : Free Passes
  • February 2025  Points from the Past ...  Non-London Gibsons ... Edinburgh TIMs ... the LCC Midnight Car ... Sheffield United Tours ... Isle of Islay Postbus ... Identification Please!  - Local Transport Co. .... Liberty Bus ... Technology Update .... Franchising News ...  Rail Historical : BritRail Passes ... Making merry from Sheffield ... Centenaries and Anniversaries ... Poole Booking Office Changeover ... Rail Tours ...  The LCC Steamboat Service : 1905-1907 ...   From the NVBS treasure-chest : Thalys ~ 25 years in service
  • January 2025  Fastrack ... Technology Update ... Rail Historical : Chemins de Fer Britanniques ... Making merry from Sheffield ... Tickets from Denmark ~ 2024 ...  Overseas Jottings : Pakistan - Lahore Metro  ... From the NVBS treasure-chest : Antwerpen
  • December 2024  Points from the Past ... Copenhagen Ultimates ... Sheffield Corporation Tramways & Motors ... Further small Scottish Ultimate users ... Identification Please!   Rail Historical ... An unusual season ticket ... Seat Regulation Tickets  ... Centenaries and anniversaries ... A small town in Germany : Kappeln  Overseas News Bulletin  Pakistan   From the NVBS treasure-chest Amersfoort
  • November 2024 Points from the Past ... Non-London Gibsons ... Identification Please!   Rail Historical ... Review of the Fleet at Spithead in 1953   ... and in 1935 ... The Elsenham - Thaxted Branch   Overseas News Bulletin  Progress in Transnistria   From the NVBS treasure-chest 8-day Tourist cards   Isle of Wight Weekend : 20-22 September 2024
  • October 2024  Points from the Past  ...  Non-London Gibsons ... Identification Please! Rail Historical  ...  Honiton & District Round Table ... Seat Regulation Tickets ... Rügen and the Racing Roland
  • September 2024  Points from the Past ... Ultimates: Northern Ayrshire Coaches ... Black's  Taxis and Coaches ... North Cornwall Cars ... Cumberland MS ... Reading Corporation ... Non-London Gibsons ... Sheffield Corporation Tramways & Motors ... Farrows Motor Services  Rail Historical : Review of the Fleet at Spithead, 1953 ...  The Rise & Fall of Agent E235 Part 3 ... From the NVBS treasure-chest : Railway highlights of 1957
  • August 2024  Points from the Past  ...  Non-London Gibsons ... London Transport All Day Ticket Tests ... The Upperthorpe, Steel Bank & Walkley Omn. Co.  ... The Setright "Ordit" ... The Rise & Fall of Agent E235 ... From the NVBS treasure-chest : Tickets from the UK ... The Transport Revolution in Mexico
  • July 2024  Rail Historical : The Half-Day Excursion ... Leven and Cameron Bridge  ...  The Rise & Fall of Agent E235 ... From the NVBS treasure-chest : The Zoetermeer S-Bahn ... The Ferries of Belize
  • June 2024 Rail Historical : Mistakes on Tickets ... Days Out with the Honiton & District Round Table ...   Caley on the Clyde ... From the NVBS treasure-chest : The Schiedam - Hoek van Holland Line ... Shopping by phone the New York way ... The most famous collector of them all!
  • May 2024  Ticket machines in Museums ... Tickets and Ticket Machines in print ... Points from the Past : The London North East Association ... The Tickets of the Walthamstow UDC Light Railways ... Looking back at Southampton ... Safeguard Coaches ... W E Pashley of Bradwell ... Rail Historical : Miltitary Travel Documents ... Bus Services in Cyprus Today ... Danish Light Rail Tickets ... From the NVBS treasure-chest : Privatised Railways in The Netherlands ... Tickets at the Flicks
  • pril 2024  Points from the Past : Audit by punch-hole ... Down Suffolk by-ways: Cooper's Bus Service ... Looking back at Southampton (3) ... Safeguard Buses 100 year Celebration ... Military Travel Documents ... Park railways with a history ... The Modern Tramways of France - 2 : Valenciennes ... From the NVBS treasure-chest ... Station name changes ... Tickets at the Flicks
  • March 2024  Points from the Past : Non-London Gibsons ... Across the High Weald (Beacon MS and East Grinstead Motor Coaches) ... Patent Applied For ... LPTB & William Webb 1936 ... The Tickets of the Walthamstow UDC Light Railways ... From the NVBS treasure-chest ... Schipol Airport ... Italy & Slovenia ~ September 2023
  • February 2024  Points from the Past : Audit by punch-hole ... Sunderland - Forgotten Pioneer (tokens and the Autoslot machine) ... The Saltburn Cliff Lift ... Talking Tickets : Derby Works ... An unusual season ticket ... Training Ships ... War Pensions Committee ... Some Jottings from the Gulf ... From the NVBS treasure-chest ... Tariff Periods
  • January 2024  South-west from Saltburn  ... Oxford Park & Ride ... Talking Tickets ... Workmen - Taff Vale Rly ... Rail & Road to Durham  ... Egpyt ... From the NVBS treasure-chest ...Second World War tickets