Ticket platform

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A ticket platform was a platform situated outside a passenger railway station to allow passengers' tickets to be collected.

These platforms were unpopular as they delayed the arrival of the trains just a short distance outside the station, but it did enable railway staff to collect tickets before passengers had a chance to leave the station.

Ticket platforms fell out of use when corridor coaches became common as these allowed on-board ticket collection.

The former ticket platform on the approach to Oban railway station in Scotland is still in situ beside the railway.