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Red Arrow Tickets

The Red Arrows were the first of the central area one-man flat fare services. The first was service 500. Monday to Fridays only. In 1966 the route was, (rush hours) Victoria Station - Marble Arch - Victoria Station. 0930 - 1620 Victoria Station, Hyde Park Corner, Grosvener Square, Hanover Square, Oxford Street, Marble Arch, Hyde Park Corner, Victoria Station.

By 1972 the following services had been added:-

501 Waterloo Station - London Bridge Station.
502 Waterloo Station - Liverpool Street Station
503 Waterloo Station - Victoria Station.
505 Waterloo Station - Marble Arch.
506 Victoria Station - Piccadilly Circus.
507 Waterloo Station - Victoria Station.
513 Waterloo Station - London Bridge Station.

Service was Monday to Friday only on all routes except 507, and no evening service on 501, 502 and 505.
There were no child fares on these buses.

The tickets above date from around late 1970, they are ready for decimal the 'd' has been left off the price. The flat fare was 6d. London Transport were worried that after decimalisation (Feb 15 1971) there would be no coin to pay this fare with. A campaign was launched by newspapers of the day with the slogan 'Save our Sixpence'. This led to the retention of the sixpence as a two and a half pence coin. They needn't have worried by 1974 the fare had doubled to 5p, and by 1976 it had doubled again to 10p. Also within a few weeks of decimalisation most of the sixpenny coins were traveling in pairs as 5p.

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