Tickets

Interestingly found this card ticket issued on 12th March 2016, though printed in 2013. (Santulan Mahanta)

A current reservation ticket (left) issued by the counter at Jaipur for the double decker to Delhi. Unlike other locations, current bookings for this train are carried out through the Unreserved Ticketing System (UTS) instead of the Passenger Reservation

Howrah - New Delhi Rajdhani ticket, 1979. Side 2. Scan provided by Rahul Dutta, 2012. (Rahul Dutta)

Howrah - New Delhi Rajdhani ticket, 1979. Side 3. Scan provided by Rahul Dutta, 2012. (Rahul Dutta)

Howrah - New Delhi Rajdhani ticket, 1979. Side 4. Scan provided by Rahul Dutta, 2012. (Rahul Dutta)

Howrah - New Delhi Rajdhani ticket, 1979. Side 1. Scan provided by Rahul Dutta, 2012. (Rahul Dutta)

A booklet (airline) style ticket issued for New Delhi - Dehradun Shatabdi Express for travel on 1995-07-13

A booklet (airline) style ticket issued for Lucknow - New Delhi Shatabdi Express at Kanpur for travel on 1995-10-18

In this era of information technology, the good old card tickets are still surviving! (Akshay Marathe)

Airline-style ticket for the Bombay Rajdhani. Sent to me by John (from UK) nearly 10 years back. Till the mid-80s, there used to be a separate Rajdhani counter at Bombay Central. (Mani Vijay)

Sri Lankan train tickets, 2002. Note that the station of origin is not printed in English. These are a 3rd class local ticket from Alutgama to Bentota (1 km) for Rs 2 (INR 1.10 at that time) and a 2nd class express ticket from Galle to Bentota (53 km) for

History repeats itself. Today Kolkata Metro bound to issue a BOARD TICKET !!! at the Belgachia Metro Station a few moments back because of a complete system failure. Perhaps most rare events since October 24, 1984.

Ready reckoner for conversion of Annas Pies into Decimal coinage from a Railway Timetable.

First Class Rail Motor fares in Hindi/Devnagiri script between Kalka and Simla shortly after the Republic of India adopted the new Indian Rupee with 100 paise instead of 64 in 1957.

Fare table from North Eastern Railway timetable in early Nineteen Sixties showing distance in miles as well as fares of third class.

In 2007 the ticket office of Narsasapur didn't issue cardboard Edmondson tickets anymore. Computer tickets Narasapur to Rajamundry (1 adult plus 1 child, and another ticket for 1 adult). (Hendrik Ploeger)

Ticket from Narasapur to the next stop: Gorintada. Price has been changed from Rs 2, via Rs 4 to Rs 5. This suggests this ticket has not often been sold. Indeed, the frequent APSRTC bus services are far more convenient to travel the distance of 6 kilomet

A collection of tickets from various stations to Narasapur (AP). (Hendrik Ploeger)

Some tickets from Narasapur (AP) to several destinations I collected in the past years.
Note that two tickets mention Narsapur (the English spelling used locally) instead of Narasapur (the spelling used by Indian Railways). (Hendrik Ploeger)

Madurai Junction retiring room tickets (plus reverse sides), with date and time of arrival noted by the matron in charge. (Hendrik Ploeger)

Triple surprise; A ticket with a difference!! Buy one, get three free was WR's slogan at BVI! This is the "ticket" which I purchased from an ATVM at BVI for my journey to BSR. I got three blank tickets with the printed one. The person before me

A ticket issued by RKR (Rohilkand Kumaon Railway) on 15th December 1913 from Moradabad Junction to Kathgodam. Another rare ticket from a lesser know railway company.
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(Senthil Kumar)

(Senthil Kumar)

(Senthil Kumar)

(Senthil Kumar)