platform ticket

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Noun

platform ticket (plural platform tickets)

  1. (rail transport, historical) A ticket giving a non-traveller access to a railway station platform.
    • 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 143:
      I gave them money for platform tickets and had them take my baggage.
    • 1943 November and December, “Introduction of Platform Tickets”, in Railway Magazine, page 324:
      Just 30 years ago the introduction of platform tickets was the subject of lively controversy in Great Britain. They had been used for many years in Continental Europe.
    • 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, pages 329–30:
      Too many things were said at once, questions about bags and journeys, platform tickets (Wysbraum had lost them), concern for Izzie, all orchestrated with a triumphal note regarding the parcel and the dress.

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