Ticket platform
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A ticket platform was a platform situated outside a passenger
railway station
to allow passengers' tickets to be collected.
These platforms were unpopular as they delayed the arrival of the trains just a short distance outside the station, but it did enable railway staff to collect tickets before passengers had a chance to leave the station.
Ticket platforms fell out of use when
corridor coaches
became common as these allowed on-board ticket collection.
The former ticket platform on the approach to
Ticket platforms are not to be confused with platform tickets.
Notes
- ^ This may be a mistake as the platform remains just outside Liverpool Street station are the remains of Bishopsgate (Low Level) railway station.
References
- ISBN 978-1846682094.
Further reading
- Clinker, C.R. (November–December 1948). "Ticket Platforms and Ticket Collecting". The Railway Magazine. Vol. 94, no. 578. Westminster: Railway Publishing Company. pp. 403, 409.
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