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321:, for its own use and for nostalgic trips on ČD and a number of museum railways. JHMD has one of two extant Goebl printing machines from 1895 in the world, together with four newer machines. In the eighties, at ten of the biggest railway stations in Czechoslovakia special mechanical printing machines were used, which printed tickets in Edmondson's format.
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Edmondson format. These are modern magnetic back tickets issued by vending machines, punched by automatic station entry gates and collected at the exit gates. In some rural stations hand-punching by railway employees is still done.
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Edmondson printing machines that are to be placed on display in a specially-built museum at the front of Sheffield Park station. There are several small companies that still produce Edmondson tickets on request.
309:(ŽSR). The Prague printing house produced 50,000 tickets per day until start of decrement. Since 1999 ČD stopped ordering these tickets and production stopped. In 1999, the new private narrow-gauge railway company
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Edmondson tickets by British Rail completely ceased in February 1990 after being replaced by the standard
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