The government-owned Sri Lanka Railways uses second-hand machines purchased from the Netherlands to print their tickets. In Japan most local railway tickets keep the Edmondson format. These are modern magnetic back tickets issued by vending machines, punched by automatic station entry gates and collected at the exit gates. In some rural stations hand-punching by railway employees is still done. Due to the Japanese occupation of Korea, South Korea used to use the Edmondson tickets for certain types of trains until the introduction of computer in ticket issuing. In some local lines and lower-grade trains, Edmondson format was used even after the computerisation for a while before magnetic stripped card-shape tickets became in use. The ticket was usually hand-punched by employees at the boarding gate, which now replaced by Trust system process. On the Taiwan Railway Administration lines, tickets for local trains also keep the Edmondson format as in Japan. Reserved tickets on the Tzu-Chiang express and high speed rail tickets have a larger format. Some tourist lines (e.g. the Pingxi Line) still use Edmondson tickets. In some cases, the combination of station names on the ticket are interpreted as auspicious, making them a collectable. The Edmondson tickets have been discontinued on Indian Railways but are still used sparingly and continue on heritage railways in India like the Nilgiri Mountain Railway. References Sources Further reading Bray, Maurice I., (1986). Railway Tickets, Timetables & Handbills. Ashbourne: Moorland Publishing Co. Ltd. . Glover, John (1985). "Mechanisation of ticket issuing". In: Modern Railways, Vol. 42, April 1985, Pages 192–195. External links William Heynes and Christopher White Edmondson-style Tickets Photo of Bellmatic ticket dispenser at National Railway Museum Photo of 1951 Bellmatic ticket dispenser It Fare collection systems History of rail transport in the United Kingdom de:Thomas Edmondson#Edmondsonsche Fahrkarte