Ticket platform

Ticket platform

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 Oban railway station in Scotland is still in situ beside the railway.

Ticket platforms are not to be confused with platform tickets.


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