English

Noun

platform ticket ‎(plural platform tickets)

1. (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.

References

• “platform ticket” (US) / “platform ticket” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.