platform ticket

plural platform tickets

1. historicalrail transportA ticket giving a non-traveller access to a railway station platform.

   I gave them money for platform tickets and had them take my baggage.

   1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 143

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   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.

   1943 November and December, “Introduction of Platform Tickets”, in Railway Magazine, page 324

   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.

   1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, pages 329–30