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"North Wales national smartcard trial launched"
13 February 2013

GoCymru, the new Welsh Government funded smart travel card, started trials in Wrexham and Bangor on January 31.
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“Opening up the Oyster card beats charging ahead with TfL’s expensive alternative’
6 December 2011

LAST week the London Assembly Transport Committee (LATC) released its report on the future of ticketing in the capital. No big deal, you might think – if you assume the Oyster card seems to function rather well.
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"National Express and sQuid to launch pay-as-you-go smartcard travel in Scotland"
28 September 2010

National Express Dundee, part of the National Express Group of companies, is launching the first smartcard pay-as-you-go service for bus travel in Scotland.
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"Greater Manchester leads in the creation of a Cashless Society" 
5 October 2009 - Bolton

On Monday 28 September 2009, GMPTE and Bolton Council succeeded in launching the UK's first ITSO-enabled, multi-purse smart card.
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"Bolton Council launch the UK’s first multi-purse smart card with an ITSO enabled pay-as-you-go travel purse"
28 September 2009 - Bolton

The first multi-purse smart card with an ITSO enabled pay-as-you-go travel purse has been launched in Bolton.
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"sQuid signs groundbreaking agreement with Greater Manchester Transport bosses"
27 February 2008 - Reuters

sQuidcard, the eMoney payments system operator, and Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive (GMPTE), responsible for transport initiatives across one of the largest cities in the UK, have signed a contract to deliver a pre-paid transit smartcard service.
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"sQuid's 'Tap-and-Go' smartcard given the go-ahead by Bolton Council"
11 June 2007

• sQuidcard, the cash replacement smart card operator, has been given the go-ahead by Bolton Council chiefs to incorporate its sQuid e-money purse on Bolton's Smart card, so users will never again have to scramble for change when buying newspapers, coffee or a sandwich.

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"Where Oyster clammed up, sQuid is ready to cash in"
14 May 2006 - Sunday Telegraph

NM Rothschild, the investment bank, has been appointed to raise £15m to fund the launch of a cashless card payment system designed to be a rival to Transport for London's Oyster card.
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