East Midlands Railway upgrades printers to allow half a million tickets to be recycled

By Tom Surgay

22nd May 2023 | Local News

East Midlands Railway has announced that it will now issue customers who buy tickets on board its train a paper version. Photo courtesy of EMR.
East Midlands Railway has announced that it will now issue customers who buy tickets on board its train a paper version. Photo courtesy of EMR.

East Midlands Railway (EMR), the company that operates all train services in and out of Hucknall, has announced that it will now issue customers who buy tickets on board its train a paper version.

This means that more than 600,000 a tickets a year can now be recycled. 

EMR's train managers, senior conductors and revenue protection officers use a small machine to issue tickets, excess fares and sundries to its customers. 

Previously, these machines used the traditional magnetic stripe solution which was costly and non-recyclable due to their composition and the use of the data strip across the back of the ticket.

Now, in a project costing £116,000, almost 300 of these devices have been converted to paper roll ticketing, meaning a more sustainable approach to EMR's day-to-day operations. 

Tom Gunton, Environment and Sustainability Manager at East Midlands Railway, said: "We have an important role to play in helping people live more sustainably by offering a practical alternative to taking the car. ​But, on top of that, it's our responsibility to minimise the environmental impact of our services.

"In 2022, EMR issued 662,000 magnetic-stripe tickets using onboard machines - unfortunately these tickets ultimately ended up in landfill.  

"Thanks to this investment, on board tickets can now be recycled - which is great for sustainability and another important step in reducing our impact on the environment." 

     

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