Since the first train in the world was launched in 1830, the history of train tickets as ride-hailing certificates has emerged. The emergence of trains officially announced that the era of carriages has become a past. China did not build the Tangxu coal transportation railway until 1881 of the Qing Dynasty , because of coal transportation, which kicked off the appearance of domestic trains.
Li Hongzhang and Tangxu Railway
However, it was not until the beginning of the 20th century that China built a relatively complete prototype of railway trunk line . Because of the scarcity of trains, the ticket price of train tickets was naturally very high. In 919, the second-class train price of Hankou to Beijing required 29 silver dollar . If it was a sleeper, it would be necessary to add 4 yuan silver dollars. The third-class train ticket was 14 yuan five-cent silver dollars, but there was no bed. You should know that a piece of silver dollars could buy 30 kilograms of meters in the 20s, and the monthly salary of ordinary teachers and staff at that time was only more than 20 silver dollars. Therefore, the monthly salary of could only buy a third-class train ticket from Hankou to Beijing at that time.
train tickets during the Republic of China
third-class carriages during the Republic of China
The earliest train tickets in China
At that time, Chinese trains were mainly used to transport goods, and of course, they occasionally recruit people, so naturally there were train tickets. Early train tickets used Edmonson-style tickets. The so-called Edmonson-style train tickets were actually called hard board train tickets. They originated in Europe and later spread to various places. Therefore, most railway passenger transports during the Republic of China used this ticket until after the New China, but the style was larger.
Edmundson-style train ticket
Western suburbs tickets in the 1940s and 1950s
Republic of China train ticket
First generation hard board train ticket
After the founding of New China, China Railway used hard board train tickets. At that time, the train ticket size was 2.5 cm wide and 5.7 cm long. Braille was printed on the back of the ticket, and the departure, destination and price were printed on the front, and the departure date and time were stamped with steel stamps.
The collection of the China Railway Museum of China Imported Passenger Ticket Printing Machine
hard board train ticket
50s train ticket
At that time, the train was divided into fast train and slow train, which was also reflected in train tickets. Among them, one red bar represents the express train, and two red bars represent the express. The one without the bar is the slow train. The soft seat ticket is light blue, the hard seat ticket is light red, the suburbs ticket is light purple, the simple ticket is light green, the box car ticket is orange and yellow, etc. to distinguish . The sales process of
hard seat and hard sleeper train tickets
hard board train tickets is very cumbersome, because the ticket seller needs to put different ticket types into different grids, and then according to the passenger's destination, find the train tickets needed by the passenger from the cabinet, then use pinhole printer to print the date, and then paste small paper strips on the back of the ticket with glue, and finally stamp the stamp before the ticket can be sold. Therefore, the ticket is bought at this time, which takes three to five minutes, or even longer.
Soft seat, soft sleeper, lying train ticket
Sleeper ticket
Military ticket, half price ticket, children's ticket
Use glue to paste small paper on the back of the ticket
Single sleeper ticket
Suburban ticket
Vertical ticket
Vertical ticket
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Platform tickets and bedding tickets
In addition, if the stations along the ticket are not on the ticket, the ticket seller also needs to hand-written an section ticket . If you need to buy or make up the ticket on the train, the train conductor also needs to hand-written an substitute ticket . Therefore, the ticket seller was very strict at that time. He needed to work in the passenger transport section for three years before he could work in the ticket workshop. He also needed three months of training and could only take the job after being led by the master. After all, he needed to calculate the ticket price and find change, and quote the correct ticket price. The ticket seller at that time was a technical job.
A hard board train ticket
This kind of train ticket was used until the end of the 20th century and can be said to be the longest-used train ticket in China's railways.
1990 train ticket
1979 soft paper ticket
1988 Shenzhen train ticket
1991 Shanghai train ticket
second-generation soft paper train ticket
In 1997, the traditional hard board train ticket began to gradually withdraw, and replaced it with soft paper tickets that many people have seen. Among them, the soft paper ticket uses light pink as the bottom color, and the one-dimensional code is printed on it. After the appearance of this kind of train ticket, it greatly reduced the time for manual ticket sales. Before, each hard board train ticket took several minutes to issue, but now it only takes 3-5 seconds. Because the original printing-type train tickets were printed in advance, and soft paper train tickets were printed on site using printing technology, the speed was naturally increased.
1996 soft paper train ticket
1996 Beijing train ticket
1997 red-shaded train ticket
1997 Of course, some places do not have computer tickets, and cardboard train tickets are still retained. On June 30, 2007, the Beijing Qinglongqiao Station Railway sold the last hard board train ticket in China. At this point, the hard board train ticket that has been used for a hundred years has been completely discontinued from .
2008 train ticket
After December 10, 2009, the 1R code on the soft paper train ticket was changed to the QR code . This QR code mainly focuses on the passenger's ticket purchase type, train number, price, sales place and other information, and all are displayed on the ticket face.
2010 paper QR code train ticket
third-generation magnetic medium train ticket
On April 18, 2007, with the official launch of my country's EMUs, my country's railways officially entered the era of EMUs, and train tickets have naturally been fully upgraded. Magnetic medium train tickets have a one-time train ticket with a ticket harder than soft paper train tickets. The front of the ticket is printed with the EMUs pattern, and the magnetic information and thermal information are implanted on the back.
2008 train ticket
After August 1, 2016, the magnetic medium train ticket was upgraded again, using a new version of the train ticket, including red-bottom soft paper tickets, blue-bottom magnetic medium tickets and supplementary tickets. Compared with the original train tickets, the positive information of the new version of train tickets has been adjusted in sequence, and some words such as "Please go to 12306 for tickets, please go to 95306 for shipping" and "China Railway wishes you a happy journey".
2016's new version of train tickets
The fourth generation of paperless train tickets
As early as June 2011, passengers could use their ID card to enter the train station. The first one to use was the Wuhan-Guangzhou section of the high-speed rail. As long as passengers purchase online, they do not need to exchange paper tickets at the ticket entrance and ticket vending machines. They can enter and exit the station with their ID card. By 2018, more and more train stations began to use their face-scanning method to enter the station, greatly reducing passengers' time and waiting in the waiting room.
swipe your ID card to go directly into and out
The development history of China's train tickets is also a witness to China's leapfrog development over the past century. From the traditional hard-board train tickets to the current paperless era, every upgrade of train tickets is an advancement of China's railways and the progress of the times. Although my country's trains started late, the high-speed railway with full connections has since jumped to it, witnessing the prosperity and prosperity of the country.
High-speed rail