(06 Aug 2025, 7:43 pm)LVK 404L wrote I know the machines you are referring to.  Big red oblong things which were seperate to the driver machine.   They had 2 slots, one for issuing general tickets usually and the other for issuing transfare tickets (the yellow ones like metro ticket machines made)

Im sure these were removed before the darts etc arrived as Busways had 2 versions of the 1 machine driver issued ticket i beleive.   Catch A Bus had these whilst Busways had the big red oblongs, then im sure Busways swapped to same machine as Catch A Bus.

Yeah I'd thought the same re the switch to the (also red) Almex A90 where the ticket was issued by the driver's unit.  But the first of the Darts arrived in significant number in 1992 and that switchover didnt come until Summer 1994 according to signage on 1723, so think the old style machines must have been on the Darts for a year or two