LAHORE -- Pakistan Railways police collected Rs 14.36 million as fine from 1,403,552 people who entered the platforms without purchasing a
platform ticket, during the last three months.
Job security at Vicarage Road has often been as transient as a
platform ticket, but Gracia said: "Since July, my family have been here, we have organised schools for our boys and we stay together in a house 15 minutes from the training ground.
In an unusual move, the SCR authorities have doubled the
platform ticket from Rs 10 to 20 to discourage large number of people coming to see off their relatives.
"All week I'd dream of Saturday morning when I would escape to Newcastle Central Station with like-minded friends braving all weathers, armed with a
platform ticket to watch the trains come and go."
RAWALPINDI -- Entry of citizens into Rawalpindi railway station has been banned without obtaining
platform ticket.
A
platform ticket seller called British Transport Police when Sheryl Christine Thomas walked onto tracks at Shotton railway station last May.
By obtaining a
platform ticket I stumbled upon a Costa Coffee concession, complete with, er, 13 seats.
Buying
platform ticket in the railway station, casting vote without fail during elections, keeping the roads and public places clean, making one's opinion known through letter to editor on various issues, helping an accident victim to reach the hospital, etc.
The soda bottle's hissing a bit like laughter in my hand when I pass through Cantonment railway station without a
platform ticket, the policeman watching but maybe too hot to move.
If the station entirely ends up behind barriers, should Mr Brocklebank wish to wave off his excitable young nieces Cecily and Gwendolen on their journeys to the colonies, will he be able to obtain the long lost "
Platform Ticket", once so prized by enthusiasts and families?"
He had been detained for travelling on a
platform ticket!