Buying an MRT Fare Card at Ang Mo Kio Station 1987

A guide assists an elderly woman in buying an MRT fare card for the first time at Ang Mo Kio MRT station. When the first generation of MRT trains was introduced, MRT staff educated the public on how to purchase tickets. Commuters had to insert coins into the ticket machine and select the correct option to buy a single-journey fare card. Today, reusable stored-value cards like EZ-Link cards have replaced fare cards