SOAPs, NOAPs, TOAPs and SWANs

摘要

Last month's Tale about Trent Barton tickets stamped 'DOAP' being issued to free concessionary pass holders prompted Richard Ward and Peter Taplin to write in with more such codes they have spotted on similar tickets. They have seen tickets stamped 'TOAP' in Nottingham city, 'SOAP' in Staffordshire and 'NOAP' in Nottinghamshire. Clearly 'DOAP' is for Derbyshire. Perhaps there are more. I also see that, despite putting about every piece of clear information short of blood group on its new generation Almex-generated tickets, First Glasgow still finds it necessary to combat fraud with a four-letter code: 1 7 December may have been a Friday, but it also was SWANday.