Limited-edition railway tickets

[bill937ca]

Limited-edition railway tickets... there's no such thing in North America, is there? (Collecting railroad paperwork, be it schedules, tickets or train orders, isn't my field of interest.) I suppose there'd occasionally be special tickets for the first or last run of something? But licensed railway tickets - is that something new even for Japan? (I seriously doubt it.)

 

This came up in another thread and I've found a good example of the limited edition tickets issued by Japanese railways.

 

The Mayo Line tram operation has issued a commemorative ticket for having achieved 10 million passengers. 1000 sets are being offered at 1000 Yen. Given the sentimental instincts of the Japanese people many of these tickets may never be used.

 

Translated event notice from Hobidas News.

 

http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=ja&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://rail.hobidas.com/news/info/article/128422.html&usg=ALkJrhiktI49o438nsuMrqmtS4Ykb4Ve5g

[marknewton]

Mayo Line? It's Manyosen, isn't it?

 

One of the the Yamakei colour books in my library is entirely devoted to commemorative/limited-edition tickets, so I'd say it's nothing new.

 

Cheers,

 

Mark.

[bill937ca]

Mayo Line? It's Manyosen, isn't it?

 

Yes.