platform ticket
English
Noun
platform ticket (plural platform tickets)
- (rail transport, historical) A ticket giving a non-traveller access to a railway station platform.
- 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society 2008, p. 143:
- I gave them money for platform tickets and had them take my baggage.
- 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 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.
- 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society 2008, p. 143:
References
- “platform ticket” (US) / “platform ticket” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.
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