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Title: Why "DMR", not "DEC", on tickets? Post by: Marlburian on December 11, 2023, 20:39:56 Someone on my NextDoor neighbourhood forum has just remarked on this,and someone found it "mildly interesting" eight years ago on Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/3wn3j7/my_train_ticket_uses_dmr_instead_of_dec/). Any suggestions why?
Title: Re: Why "DMR", not "DEC", on tickets? Post by: bobm on December 11, 2023, 20:42:55 Probably chosen by the same person who ordained JNR for January.
Title: Re: Why "DMR", not "DEC", on tickets? Post by: grahame on December 11, 2023, 21:09:58 JNR FBY MCH APR MAY JUN JLY AUG SEP OCT NOV DMR
MCH rather than MAY to avoid MAR/MAY confusion on worn tickets JLY rather than JUN for JUN/JUL reasons Others ... I am looking for excuses for them I can tell you why it's PAR* and not PAR on tickets Title: Re: Why "DMR", not "DEC", on tickets? Post by: JayMac on December 11, 2023, 23:22:49 Non standard abbreviations for some of the months are used to make it harder to fraudulently alter a ticket. That's what Wikipedia says.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/APTIS_ticket_features Title: Re: Why "DMR", not "DEC", on tickets? Post by: infoman on December 12, 2023, 06:59:15 and don't get confused between
Torquay and Turkey Baff in Somerset with Bough in Humberside Gillingham in Kent and Gillingham in Dorset Strood in Kent and Stroud in Gloucestershire Title: Re: Why "DMR", not "DEC", on tickets? Post by: Marlburian on December 12, 2023, 08:16:48 Years ago, I was behind a young man at the Waterloo ticket office who was asking for a ticket to Haslemere. He suddenly realised he wanted to go to Hazlemere in Buckinghamshire, which doesn't have a station ...
Title: Re: Why "DMR", not "DEC", on tickets? Post by: Mark A on December 12, 2023, 09:30:56 HPE to HOP is a good one.
Mark Title: Re: Why "DMR", not "DEC", on tickets? Post by: Bob_Blakey on December 12, 2023, 09:42:07 Possibly done by the same individual who thought changing the PIS output for LYC from Lympstone Cmdo to Lympstone Comma was a really good idea. ???
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