Meaning of platform ticket | Babel Free

Definitions

A ticket giving a non-traveller access to a railway station platform.

historical

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Examples

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

“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.”

“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.”

CEFR level