In article , see@below.com (Peter
Campbell Smith) wrote:

> To get slightly back to topic, I don't remember any train fares 
> costing odd halfpennies (my monthly child season was 4s 11d which 
> was 1/3 of the adult rate), but I do remember when the Edinburgh 
> buses (and trams) abolished the last halfpenny fare by putting the 
> child rate up from 1½d to 2d -- it would be around 1955.  I put in 
> a correspondingly inflation-linked claim for a pocket money 
> increase.  

Crikey! I was paying 1 1/2d child fares in London much later than that,
maybe 1960 even.

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Colin Rosenstiel