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To travel by train, you need a ticket to your destination. Explore over 800 objects related to this simple but essential element of rail transport throughout its history.

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North British Railway season ticket

1905

Flying Scotsman Australian tickets

1989-08

British Rail souvenir platform tickets

London Midland & Scottish Railway identification card

London & North Eastern Railway Work Permit

1940

Luggage label, The Cornish Riviera Express

London Midland & Scottish Railway Connah's Quay

the yorkshire pullman leeds

north london railway free pass

Associated society of locomotive engineers & firemen contribution card

1923

British Railways (Southern Region) Free Pass

1949

London Midland & Scottish Railway Holiday Contract Ticket No 759, Tour No 3, August 1936

Free pass, London & North Western Railway

Eastern Counties Railway, Free Ticket

Flying Scotsman Ticket

1926

Luggage label, luggage in advance 2/8

1947

dinorwic quarry workmen's pass

Pack of luggage labels, The Royal Scot

the queen of scots, glasgow queen street

The Flying Scotsman

Flying Scotsman Society Australia Inc. Souvenir Ticket

1989

north yorkshire moors railway souvenir ticket

1973

1st class ticket Vladivostok to Paris

1914

3rd class weekly workman ticket issued to Sidney Miles

1890s

Compagnie International des Wagons-Lits, Golden Arrow

Director's free pass South Wales Railway, D.A.S. Davies MP

1850

British Railways (Western Region) Free Pass

1949

British Railways (North Eastern Region) Free Pass

1949

British Railways (Scottish Region) Free Pass

1949
London Midland & Scottish Railway, Pass, Blank, Silver.

London Midland & Scottish Railway free pass

Ticket, gold, ‘Dundee, Perth & Aberdeen Railway Junction, Director's Ticket’, engraved on obverse with engraver’s name J&O Fenton, with engraving of an 0-4-2 locomotive with Latin motto above 'Celeriter et Certe' [swift and sure] on reverse.

Dundee, Perth & Aberdeen Junction Railway free pass

North Eastern Railway, Identity Disc, No.355. To admit bearer into Sunderland Docks during 1914-18 War

north eastern railway identity disc

Collection of 176 tickets, APTIS type, and 1 standard PORTIS, all variants available 1996-2002, British railways network, unissued.

Collection of 176 tickets

1998-2002
Ticket, London Transport, 1966 World Cup, Seven-Day, Go-As-You-Please Ticket, 29th June to 5th July 1966, issued to J.M. Carter, number A 0183.

1966 World Cup, Seven-Day Go-As-You-Please Ticket

1966
Tickets and timetables, card and paper, 7 APTIS tickets and one itinerary for journeys to the new station at the James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, June and July 2014. With two North Rail timetables for the routes on which the hospital station is situated (Middlesborough to Whitby and Nunthorpe / Middlesborough to Newcastle). The station opened to the public on 18 May 2014,[6] and was opened officially by Minister of State for Transport, Baroness Kramer on 18 July 2014. 5 of the tickets are from the official opening day.

Tickets and timetables showing the new station at the James Cook University Hospital, Middlesborough

2014-05-2014-07
Luggage label, Great Northern Railway, via Doncaster and East Coast, printed by Waterlow & Sons Ltd., reference number V22, print quantity of 25,000, print date 3/22.

Great Northern Railway

1922
Omnibus Ticket, Sheffield & Rotherham Railway, opened October 31st 1838, check No. 485, copper. Diameter 25 mm.

omnibus ticket sheffield & rotherham railway

1838
Luggage label, Great Northern Railway, via Spalding & Sutton Bridge and Midland & Great Northern Joint Line, printed by Waterlow & Sons Ltd., reference number V15, print quantity of 50,000, print date 9/07.

Great Northern Railway

1907
Ticket allowing the bearer in charge of a consignment of homing pigeons to travel third class, issued by London Midland and Scottish Railway Company (10 items).

10 London Midland & Scottish Railway tickets

1933
Railway ticket, Luxembourg to London, single, second class, No. 11, issued 10th February 1908.

Railway ticket

1908
Label, London & North Easten Railway, "Eggs with Care", 1933.

Label, London & North Easten Railway

1933
Railway ticket, Japanese, Shinkansen seat reservation ticket issued by MARS-HN, from Tokyo to Hiroshima, 3 March 1991.

Railway ticket

1991
Admission ticket issued by British Railways (Western Region), Paddington Station, for the Funeral of King George VI. 15 February 1952.

Admission ticket issued by British Railways (Western Region)

1952
Railway ticket, Edmondson type, London & North Western Railway, Penrith to Hawick, Third Class, Parliamentary, fare 5/3 1/2, No 896, 22 April 1903.

Railway ticket

1903
Railway ticket, Edmondson type, half ticket, Manchester Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway, Stockport TD to Manchester LR or Central, Third Class Return, -/8, No 8968, 22 October 1895.

Railway ticket

1895
Railway ticket, London Brighton & South Coast Railway, Paris to London, single, second class, No. 4182, issued 17th September 1913.

London Brighton & south Coast Railway

1913
Railway ticket, Edmondson type, Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, St Annes to Manchester (Vic), Dog, fare 1/6, No 98, 20 May 1896.

Railway ticket

1896
Identity card, British Railways (Privilege ticket), Identity card, No 002018, Henry Coates, Retired Engineman, R&M Pontypool Road, Green and black, 1962, (Other Associations 81/25/2; 24/997).

British Railways Privilege Ticket Identity Card

1962
First Class Pullman Lounge. Card authorising the holder admission to First Class Pullman Lounges when accompanied by a valid First Class Ticket.

First Class Pullman Lounge. Card authorising the holder admi

Railway ticket, Japanese, Shinkansen Express ticket with reservation issued by MARS-V, from Mishima to Maibara, 16 June 1971.

Railway ticket

1971