What kinds of tickets have been or are used in India other than the old Edmondson card tickets?

July 17, 2019, 2:28 PM
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The early Rajdhani Express tickets were unusual. The Bombay Rajdhani tickets resembled airline tickets in format (although somewhat thinner), and the Howrah Rajdhani tickets were also wide like airline tickets but shorter, so that they resembled excess baggage tickets issued by the airlines of the time. WR and CR began issuing stiff paper tickets (‘RapidPrinter’ paper stock) for the Mumbai suburban trains some time in the 1980s or so, although card tickets continued to be issued at some stations for many years. Platform tickets (for access to the platform areas) are issued in square paper form at many stations, especially WR, NWR, etc. At bigger stations around the country, however, platform tickets are now printed on the same stock as regular tickets since the same self-printing ticket machines (SPTM) can be used to obtain them. RapidPrinter paper stock is used [12/04] for platform tickets in some places (e.g., Surat, Ahmedabad, Nagpur).

With the advent of computerization and networked reservation systems, tickets and reservation slips are often now printed by computer on continuous feed paper. (Below you can find brief description of some of the main components of the new systems in place for computerized reservation and ticketing.)

Source – IFRCA.org

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