platform ticket

English

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.

References

• “platform ticket”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.