It’s an old railway ticket machine at the Bratislava Transport Museum and I can’t imagine that this has what might be called mass appeal, but I rather liked it. It was rolled out by ZSR (Železnice Slovenskej republiky) who are the national rail network and I didn’t see a date on it, but it’s from either the late 1990s or the early 2000s. It would have spat out a thermally printed ticket and I imagine that they weren’t envisaging too many tourists given that the instructions are only in Slovakian. You put your coins in, pressed a button to say how far you were travelling and out came the ticket. The machine seems to have been made by Merona, but I can’t find out anything about them, but they were used by the public transport networks of numerous Slavic and Baltic countries.
I like it as it’s unsung infrastructure which gets removed, but it was an important part of everyday life for many years. It all looks a bit clunky and I’m glad that technology has progressed, but it’s positive that someone has shown the initiative to ensure its preservation in a museum for people like me to look at excitedly.