Meaning of booking office | Babel Free

Definitions

A place where tickets are sold, e.g. at a railway station or theatre.

British

Equivalents

Examples

“The NYMR [North Yorkshire Moors Railway] runs the booking office in Whitby, selling national rail tickets alongside those for the steam services.”

“Traditionally, 'ticket office' seems to have been the preferred term in America, with Britain using the term 'booking office' (as an 1881 edition of The Railway Age Monthly and Railway Service Magazine explains). Today, the two are often used interchangeably (as the recent 'Save our ticket offices' campaign shows), with the term 'ticketing' perhaps capturing more of the point-of-sale transaction and issuing of tickets within stations.”

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