Dany 
This is the most obscure, and also cheapest, souvenir I've ever bought: a Bahnsteigkarte, bought on the last day possible, from the last public transport company in Germany to sell them.
Ryek Darkener@Dany
Germany in a nutshell. ;)
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK@_RyekDarkener_ @Dany they were popular with trainspotters here in Britain in the 1980s - although had become hard to get by the 2000s (the station staff often actively refused to sell them especially near London as too many people were using them to get past the barriers and board trains without paying, exiting at stations which did not have the barriers)
Eloy.@Dany a highschool classmate bought the very last Dutch railway tricket on paper around 04:00, sold it to the national railway museum for a few hundred euro
Kevin Karhan 
@Dany paywalling platforms is absurd shite and literally a tax on everyone who needs assistance with heavy luggage...
@kkarhan the platform tickets are no longer a thing. Hamburg was the last city in Germany to have them and discontinued them stating January first. The Netherlands hasn't had them in a long time, although technically you need to be in possession of a valid ticket to be on the platform.
kaiaLenin wird folgender Ausspruch zugeschrieben:
„Wenn diese Deutschen einen Bahnhof stürmen wollen, kaufen die sich erst eine Bahnsteigkarte!“[3]
SPICY EVIL CAET🍬🍭🎄
@Dany what does it do though
@CAETFOOD it's a platform ticket and allows you to be on the train platform for an hour for the price of €0,10.
Christoph
yetzt@Dany i have an even obscurer one: in Munich it was possible to buy an "Ungültiges Testticket" (invalid test ticket) for two pfennig and later one cent when pressing an unlabeled button, and you could only pay for it with a "Geldkarte" (money card), a now obscure offline electronic payment system.
Gnomigut
wink
Stefan Müller 
Damn! How do I enter platforms in Hamburg from now on????
Joss Fritz@Dany n' Groschen ;)
polygone@Dany what? This is a thing in hamburg? O_o
smekiwandert@Dany but its usual now that you have to pay for a ride to enter subway platforms only to pick up a person. Also the ÖBB here in Austria advises you to keep your ticket until you leave the platform of the railway station. So "Bahnsteigkarten" are still common but in another form.
PalmAndNeedle@Dany neeeeeerd 
mupan 📚@Dany I think the existence of platform tickets is due to the HVV's ticket checking methods: Additionally to the random on train checks they use to lock whole platforms by blocking the entrances upstairs built extra narrowly by groups of uniformed staff with dogs. You may only pass through to the hall with a valid ticket, otherwise you get at least fined, if not charged judicially, if not beaten up in their staff closets (special fining system e.g. for punks and other poor).
Elephant@Dany i guess it was invented to prevent the homeless hanging around on the platforms.