Admission to Railway Station Platforms - General Rules

Admission to Railway Station Platforms —As per rule, only bona fide passengers holding proper tickets or other authority should be admitted to station platforms but Station Masters have discretion to admit a limited number of persons who are not bona fide passengers.

(a) At stations supplied with platform tickets, no one other than a bona fide passenger will be allowed to the platform without a platform ticket or platform pass/permit. The issue of platform tickets should, however, be limited to the capacity of the platform accommodation.

Note. — (i) Free platform passes or permits are issued to staff of certain Government Departments including the Posts and Telegraphs Department, Military Police, Civil Police, Government Railway Police, officials of Excise Department on duty and Sewa Samiti and Boy Scouts Organizations and to certain railway contractors and their staff.

(ii) Commissioned Officers or N.C.Os. (including a Medical Officer and/or Station Staff Officer and his clerk) provided with instructions for the reception or despatch of a party of military personnel by rail may be allowed on the station platform without purchasing platform tickets. Such Officers or N.C.Os. will be in uniform and on demand by the railway staff produce instructions as to their authority for the non-purchase of platform tickets.

(iii) Railway staff on duty, Civil, Military and Government Railway Police in uniform. Railway Mail Service staff in uniform or with tokens, licensed porters, vendors and their authorized helpers in uniforms, private servants of railway staff on duty, and handling contractors and hamals should be admitted to platform without platform tickets, passes or permits.

(b) At stations not supplied with platform tickets, persons wishing admittance to the platform to see or meet friends travelling by trains may be admitted free, if the Station Master is satisfied that their business is bona fide.

(c) A platform ticket or platform pass/permit does not entitle the holder to remain in any carriage or compartment.