Thomas Edmondson
Thomas Edmondson (1792-1851) was the inventor of the card-based printed railway ticket system
Started work for Gillows and in 1836 joined the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway as station master at Milton.
He later moved to Manchester, where in 1839 he became the chief ticket clerk at the terminal station of the Manchester and Leeds Railway.
He invented a system of printing railway tickets, and set up a business printing tickets and making the machinery for doing this.
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Sources of Information
Chris de Winter Hebron, 50 Famous Railwaymen, 2005