A train ticket is a ticket A ticket is a voucher to indicate that one has paid for admission to an event or establishment such as a theatre, movie theater, amusement park, zoo, museum, concert, or other attraction, or permission to travel on a vehicle such as an airliner, train, bus, or boat, typically because one has paid the fare. Also a ticket may be free, and serve as a issued by a railway operator that enables the bearer to travel on the operator's network. Tickets can authorize the bearer to travel a set itinerary at a specific time (common for long-distance railroads), a set itinerary at any time (common for commuter railroads Commuter rail services in the United States, Canada, and Mexico provide common carrier passenger transportation along railway tracks, with scheduled service on fixed routes on a non-reservation basis primarily for short-distance travel between a central business district and adjacent suburbs and regional travel between cities of a conurbation. It), a set itinerary at multiple times, or an arbitrary itinerary at specific times. (The last two categories are often called passes: the former is often sold as a discounted block of trips for commuters; the latter is often sold to vacationers—for instance, European Eurail The Eurail Group G.I.E. is a Netherlands-based company, registered in Luxembourg, that sells passes and tickets for European railroads to residents of Europe and other countries. It is owned by a group of European rail carriers and shipping companies passes.)
Tickets are conventionally printed on paper and are collected by a train conductor The conductor is the railway employee charged with the management of a freight, passenger, or various other types of train, and is also the direct supervisor of the train's "Train Crew" . All train crew members on board the train work under his or her direction. The Conductor and Engineer, who is in charge of the locomotive(s) and any during the journey. Often, the conductor will give the passenger a seat check -- another voucher indicating how far the passenger may travel on the system. Some systems (America's Amtrak The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak , is a government-owned corporation that was organized on May 1, 1971, to provide intercity passenger train service in the United States. "Amtrak" is a portmanteau of the words "America" and "track". It is headquartered at Union Station in, for instance) have two-part tickets that permit the passenger to retain a cancelled ticket stub; others (the North American New Jersey Transit The New Jersey Transit Corporation is a statewide public transportation system serving the state of New Jersey, United States, and Orange and Rockland counties in New York. It operates bus, light rail, and commuter rail services throughout the state, notably connecting to major commercial and employment centers both within the state and in the and MBTA The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, often referred to as the MBTA or simply The T, is "a body politic and corporate, and a political subdivision" of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts formed in 1964 to finance and operate most bus, subway, commuter rail and ferry systems in the greater Boston, Massachusetts, area. It replaced commuter rail systems, for instance) do not.
Seat checks are changed frequently to ensure that passengers cannot retain and reuse them from journey to journey. (Conductors typically collect checks before stops to prevent this.)
See also
Further reading
- Gordon Fairchild: "Local Tickets of Global Lands." Barteld Publishing 2008, ISBN 978-3-935961-11-0
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