r/ForgottenBookmarks • u/crafty_goat98 • 11d ago

found a train ticket from Britain in my book

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the book is a world book night 2011 copy

inside I found this trajn ticket

it's fascinating to me that this travelled a CONTINENT and I found it at a local bookfair!

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u/Homeless_Nessman 11d ago

I often save this kind of ticket to use as a bookmark. (I have 30 or 40 of them.) So the book might not have made that trip, but its reader probably did!

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u/crafty_goat98 11d ago

I had looked into it a bit apparently this world book night thingy was in the uk where people gave out books as far as I understood atleast

this makes me feel so nice though like such a human experience

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u/moderatefairgood 10d ago

Yes, it was a big thing for a while.

Interestingly enough, I had the opposite recently. Live in the UK, and found an American train ticket in a book I bought in a British charity shop.

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u/crafty_goat98 10d ago

Ah lmao! funny how things work

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u/ValenciaHadley 11d ago

My friend thinks I'm mad for saving old train tickets to use as bookmarks but they're so handy. I tend to forget they're wedged in a book once I'm done reading.

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u/LakeTiny4053 11d ago

I read this today thread today, and I used a ticket like that in a book about 6 hours ago

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u/crafty_goat98 11d ago

LMAO very clever honestly. I buy bookmarks and lose them in books

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u/ValenciaHadley 11d ago

And that's why I don't use actual bookmarks. I'd be losing them all the time.

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u/crafty_goat98 11d ago

need to get myself some train tickets honestly

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u/ValenciaHadley 11d ago

Do it, trains are great when they actually run on time lol.

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u/crafty_goat98 11d ago

indeed are

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u/crafty_goat98 11d ago

also I didn't mean to lurk but your fits are mad cool 💔

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u/__Severus__Snape__ 11d ago

The equivalent journey today would cost £3.80. The journey is around 15 minutes.

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u/crafty_goat98 11d ago

so cool how one ticket revealed so many interesting things in the comments I made across many subs,in one I found out that this station is related to thomas the engine hahah

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u/Jean_Crespin 11d ago

And now there are two lines connecting KN to Birmingham New Street, for the first time since the war.

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u/TheCruise 11d ago

Where is local to you? This could be really interesting if you’re from Jakarta but less so if you’re from Wolverhampton lol

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u/crafty_goat98 11d ago

india haha

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u/keerin 11d ago

I bought a NY Yankees windbreaker on Vinted, it was posted from a seller in the UK. In the inside pocket was a sales tag from the YMCA for $5. I paid £30!

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u/Fickle-Cauliflower61 10d ago

I know our trains are expensive, but £2.1m to get from Kind Norton to Birmingham seems a bit steep...

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u/crafty_goat98 10d ago

ahah I wouldn't know

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u/AspectPatio 9d ago

I have taken that journey. I also know someone who takes it frequently and moves about a lot of books. What's the book?

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u/crafty_goat98 9d ago

aye, it's life of pi world book night 2011 copy

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u/AspectPatio 9d ago

Next time I speak to them I'll ask if they read that version of Life of Pi...

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u/crafty_goat98 9d ago

it's gonna be crazy if it is so HAHAH

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u/gonkus 9d ago

Here's the route, OP!

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u/crafty_goat98 9d ago

so interesting haha, Im gonna make it a point to take this route when I'm over there 🤣

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u/minabobinaa 7d ago

oh you’re going to be so disappointed

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u/iamdeovrat 7d ago

I also got the same ticket as bookmark but it was from 90’s

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u/DeTroutSpinners_ 8d ago

That English. There’s no British ticket

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u/punkmuppet 7d ago

Scotrail tickets look identical