a ticket for admission to railway platforms but not for travel
platform ticket in American English
noun
Brit
a pass allowing a visitor to enter upon a railroad platform from which those not traveling are ordinarily excluded
Word origin
[1900–05]This word is first recorded in the period 1900–05. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: burnout, desensitize, elder statesman, geopolitics, hookup
Examples of 'platform ticket' in a sentence
platform ticket
One of the most demoralizing things about marriage is that it gives someone a platform ticket into your mind.
Barnard, Robert DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
And in all that time not a single platform ticket was sold.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
But they couldn't stop people buying a half-pence platform ticket and refusing to come up!
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The station, on the other hand, is a small township, and anyone can get in after paying the platform-ticket fee of 5 rupees.