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Had to catch a bus on Saturday.
Got on, driver takes the money and issues the ticket, we sit down.
No clippie, what's all that about?
*for reference, I've not been on a bus for a "couple" of months..... 
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"Where have you been ! You don’t even get a ticket when you get on, just ping and walk.
Chippes haven’t been around for about 20 years "
20? Blimey it’s been about 50 years where I live, I can’t remember seeing them since I was a child  |
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"Had to catch a bus on Saturday.
Got on, driver takes the money and issues the ticket, we sit down.
No clippie, what's all that about?
*for reference, I've not been on a bus for a "couple" of months.....
Winston "
You'll be expecting guards on trains next |
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"A clippie was a bus conductor. They used to clip your ticket."
For the youngsters among us. A ticket used to be a small piece of cardboard, and a staff member called a 'conductor' used a small hand-operated device to clip a small chunk out of the ticket, to show that it had been inspected. |
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You might still find a clippie on the old London tourist routes that run the routemasters.
Other than that you’ll need to visit the doc to borrow his delorean |
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"A clippie was a bus conductor. They used to clip your ticket.
For the youngsters among us. A ticket used to be a small piece of cardboard, and a staff member called a 'conductor' used a small hand-operated device to clip a small chunk out of the ticket, to show that it had been inspected."
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"A clippie was a bus conductor. They used to clip your ticket.
For the youngsters among us. A ticket used to be a small piece of cardboard, and a staff member called a 'conductor' used a small hand-operated device to clip a small chunk out of the ticket, to show that it had been inspected.
Winston"
Never mind the ticket - what's money?
For the youngsters amongst us (;-) shut up, you!), money was what they used in the old days before oyster cards and contactless payments... |
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"A clippie was a bus conductor. They used to clip your ticket.
For the youngsters among us. A ticket used to be a small piece of cardboard, and a staff member called a 'conductor' used a small hand-operated device to clip a small chunk out of the ticket, to show that it had been inspected.
Winston
Never mind the ticket - what's money?
For the youngsters amongst us (;-) shut up, you!), money was what they used in the old days before oyster cards and contactless payments..."
The bus we caught only took money and we had to have exactly the right fare.
No contact less, no change.
Mad scramble to find £3.60 
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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago
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Boris tried them on the new 3 door buses but got rid for some reason.
Then, when they realised thousands of people were jumping on the middle and back doors without paying they stopped people boarding from the middle and back unless you were disabled or had a pram.
Waste of money from the start. |
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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago
East London |
"A clippie was a bus conductor. They used to clip your ticket.
For the youngsters among us. A ticket used to be a small piece of cardboard, and a staff member called a 'conductor' used a small hand-operated device to clip a small chunk out of the ticket, to show that it had been inspected.
Winston
Never mind the ticket - what's money?
For the youngsters amongst us (;-) shut up, you!), money was what they used in the old days before oyster cards and contactless payments...
The bus we caught only took money and we had to have exactly the right fare.
No contact less, no change.
Mad scramble to find £3.60
Winston "
Blimey, where were you? I didn't know buses still accepted cash. |
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"A clippie was a bus conductor. They used to clip your ticket.
For the youngsters among us. A ticket used to be a small piece of cardboard, and a staff member called a 'conductor' used a small hand-operated device to clip a small chunk out of the ticket, to show that it had been inspected.
Winston
Never mind the ticket - what's money?
For the youngsters amongst us (;-) shut up, you!), money was what they used in the old days before oyster cards and contactless payments...
The bus we caught only took money and we had to have exactly the right fare.
No contact less, no change.
Mad scramble to find £3.60
Winston "
The Dark ages! |
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By *bi HaiveMan
over a year ago
Forum Mod Cheeseville, Somerset |
"Had to catch a bus on Saturday.
Got on, driver takes the money and issues the ticket, we sit down.
No clippie, what's all that about?
*for reference, I've not been on a bus for a "couple" of months.....
Winston "
Last time I got on a bus in London I jumped on at the back corner as they used to build them with easy access points at the rear......kind of like crotchless knickers.
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"Where have you been ! You don’t even get a ticket when you get on, just ping and walk.
Chippes haven’t been around for about 20 years
20? Blimey it’s been about 50 years where I live, I can’t remember seeing them since I was a child "
They were only on the old routemasters then, we they buses disappeared years before |
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By *lynJMan
over a year ago
Morden |
"Boris tried them on the new 3 door buses but got rid for some reason.
Then, when they realised thousands of people were jumping on the middle and back doors without paying they stopped people boarding from the middle and back unless you were disabled or had a pram.
Waste of money from the start."
There are still busses that you can board through the middle door and pay at a contactless reader. Route 507 has them |
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"Blimey, where were you? I didn't know buses still accepted cash."
The buses in Blackpool have only just started taking card payments. Last year you still had to carry a load of coins to get the right change. |
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"Boris tried them on the new 3 door buses but got rid for some reason.
Then, when they realised thousands of people were jumping on the middle and back doors without paying they stopped people boarding from the middle and back unless you were disabled or had a pram.
Waste of money from the start.
There are still busses that you can board through the middle door and pay at a contactless reader. Route 507 has them "
Indeed... Funny how pretty much every other European city can manage to make busses with multiple entry points work. |
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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago
East London |
"Boris tried them on the new 3 door buses but got rid for some reason.
Then, when they realised thousands of people were jumping on the middle and back doors without paying they stopped people boarding from the middle and back unless you were disabled or had a pram.
Waste of money from the start.
There are still busses that you can board through the middle door and pay at a contactless reader. Route 507 has them
Indeed... Funny how pretty much every other European city can manage to make busses with multiple entry points work. "
My grandson and I counted the non-payers once. We were up to 11 through the back door in a couple of miles. |
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By *lynJMan
over a year ago
Morden |
"Boris tried them on the new 3 door buses but got rid for some reason.
Then, when they realised thousands of people were jumping on the middle and back doors without paying they stopped people boarding from the middle and back unless you were disabled or had a pram.
Waste of money from the start.
There are still busses that you can board through the middle door and pay at a contactless reader. Route 507 has them
Indeed... Funny how pretty much every other European city can manage to make busses with multiple entry points work. "
Perhaps we need more revenue protection officers (i.e. ticket inspectors) |
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"A clippie was a bus conductor. They used to clip your ticket.
For the youngsters among us. A ticket used to be a small piece of cardboard, and a staff member called a 'conductor' used a small hand-operated device to clip a small chunk out of the ticket, to show that it had been inspected.
Winston
Never mind the ticket - what's money?
For the youngsters amongst us (;-) shut up, you!), money was what they used in the old days before oyster cards and contactless payments...
The bus we caught only took money and we had to have exactly the right fare.
No contact less, no change.
Mad scramble to find £3.60
Winston
Blimey, where were you? I didn't know buses still accepted cash."
Deepest darkest West Sussex.
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By *os19Man
over a year ago
Edmonton |
"Boris tried them on the new 3 door buses but got rid for some reason.
Then, when they realised thousands of people were jumping on the middle and back doors without paying they stopped people boarding from the middle and back unless you were disabled or had a pram.
Waste of money from the start.
There are still busses that you can board through the middle door and pay at a contactless reader. Route 507 has them
Indeed... Funny how pretty much every other European city can manage to make busses with multiple entry points work.
My grandson and I counted the non-payers once. We were up to 11 through the back door in a couple of miles."
. I think those buses were the bendy buses or free buses as I called them as if you got on in the middle or end the bus driver could not tell if you tapped your oyster or debit card.In my part of North London it was the 149 Edmonton Green to Liverpool Street |
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By *os19Man
over a year ago
Edmonton |
"Had to catch a bus on Saturday.
Got on, driver takes the money and issues the ticket, we sit down.
No clippie, what's all that about?
*for reference, I've not been on a bus for a "couple" of months.....
Winston "
. In London we haven’t hard clippies or bus conductors for maybe 25 years it all Oyster card or debit cards bus drivers don’t carry cash. |
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The last time I took a bus in London was an old Routemaster. It was doorless and we could hop on in the back corner. A conductor in a uniform would come to us and ask our destination, which was something like 50p to go up the road from Hyde Park Corner to Piccadilly Circus. He had a little metal box at his waist with a leather strap hung around his neck. He turned the analogue dial on it with its lovely strong clicks and then a handle whereby a little ticket stub would be reeled out of it for us. You'd pay him for the ticket and it was cash only. That was 32 years ago. |
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Sounds more like a number of years since you were on a bus!
Don’t even interact with the driver most of the time now, here you ping on and off and fare is calculated according to how far you’ve travelled.
I do need to look into certain aspects of fares here as using buses more at the moment cos of the trains dispute |
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"The last time I took a bus in London was an old Routemaster. It was doorless and we could hop on in the back corner. A conductor in a uniform would come to us and ask our destination, which was something like 50p to go up the road from Hyde Park Corner to Piccadilly Circus. He had a little metal box at his waist with a leather strap hung around his neck. He turned the analogue dial on it with its lovely strong clicks and then a handle whereby a little ticket stub would be reeled out of it for us. You'd pay him for the ticket and it was cash only. That was 32 years ago."
When my dad firat came here from Ireland he had a job as a bus conductor. He must have pinched the ticket machine when he left as i remember playing with one when i was young.
Later in life my mates dad was a conductor too. We would bunk off school and just ride the routemasters around london.
Nostalgia... god i feel old ! |
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"The last time I took a bus in London was an old Routemaster. It was doorless and we could hop on in the back corner. A conductor in a uniform would come to us and ask our destination, which was something like 50p to go up the road from Hyde Park Corner to Piccadilly Circus. He had a little metal box at his waist with a leather strap hung around his neck. He turned the analogue dial on it with its lovely strong clicks and then a handle whereby a little ticket stub would be reeled out of it for us. You'd pay him for the ticket and it was cash only. That was 32 years ago.
When my dad firat came here from Ireland he had a job as a bus conductor. He must have pinched the ticket machine when he left as i remember playing with one when i was young.
Later in life my mates dad was a conductor too. We would bunk off school and just ride the routemasters around london.
Nostalgia... god i feel old !"
Did your dad's machine have a round dial that has a really lovely clickety-clack sound to it when it was turned and the whirr of the turning handle? |
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"The last time I took a bus in London was an old Routemaster. It was doorless and we could hop on in the back corner. A conductor in a uniform would come to us and ask our destination, which was something like 50p to go up the road from Hyde Park Corner to Piccadilly Circus. He had a little metal box at his waist with a leather strap hung around his neck. He turned the analogue dial on it with its lovely strong clicks and then a handle whereby a little ticket stub would be reeled out of it for us. You'd pay him for the ticket and it was cash only. That was 32 years ago.
When my dad firat came here from Ireland he had a job as a bus conductor. He must have pinched the ticket machine when he left as i remember playing with one when i was young.
Later in life my mates dad was a conductor too. We would bunk off school and just ride the routemasters around london.
Nostalgia... god i feel old !
Did your dad's machine have a round dial that has a really lovely clickety-clack sound to it when it was turned and the whirr of the turning handle?"
I vaguely remember it having some buttons on the face a and a handle on the side that you would crank round to produce the ticket. Oh and you could open it up, to get the roll of paper in. |
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"The last time I took a bus in London was an old Routemaster. It was doorless and we could hop on in the back corner. A conductor in a uniform would come to us and ask our destination, which was something like 50p to go up the road from Hyde Park Corner to Piccadilly Circus. He had a little metal box at his waist with a leather strap hung around his neck. He turned the analogue dial on it with its lovely strong clicks and then a handle whereby a little ticket stub would be reeled out of it for us. You'd pay him for the ticket and it was cash only. That was 32 years ago.
When my dad firat came here from Ireland he had a job as a bus conductor. He must have pinched the ticket machine when he left as i remember playing with one when i was young.
Later in life my mates dad was a conductor too. We would bunk off school and just ride the routemasters around london.
Nostalgia... god i feel old !
Did your dad's machine have a round dial that has a really lovely clickety-clack sound to it when it was turned and the whirr of the turning handle?
I vaguely remember it having some buttons on the face a and a handle on the side that you would crank round to produce the ticket. Oh and you could open it up, to get the roll of paper in. "
I think that was another version of it. I recall seeing that one too. Perhaps the one with the dial was being phased out to be replaced by the button one you recall. |
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"Clipper cards! That's how we got to school for the first two or three years at senior school, before they were phased out and the fare went up to 40p per journey "
40p? That's 8 shillings, right?
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"Couple of months" you say! And the rest...
I was a teenager in W Yorks back in the 80's when clippies got the final heave-ho. They blamed it on it was no longer safe for them to carry money as - supposedly - they kept getting mugged but we all knew it was really to cut the pay roll in two and have just the driver do it all. Behind his ultra-safe perspex window you understand?
Anyway it was the dawn of the Kerchingers. Cardboard strips you bought once a week and you had so many journeys and it clipped one off automatically in this machine slot thing between the driver and the doors whenever you embarked. Oh what fun! Hahaha. |
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