On this day, 195 years ago, September 17, 1830 (August 1, 1830, the first train ticket was born. The Liverpool-Manchester Railway, which began operating on September 15, 1830, already operates regular passenger trains. The first train ticket was born on September 17, 1830, when the Liverpool-Manchester Railway officially transported passengers. This ticket is 88 mm long and 60 mm wide. Only the station name is printed on the ticket, and the departure time, ride date and issuer's signature are all written by the ticket seller. At the same time, special platform tickets were issued to commemorate the opening. Since then, railways that have opened one after another have followed the example of the Liverpool-Manchester Railway and issued various train tickets of various sizes. Although some tickets bear the company name or riding class in addition to the station name, the departure time, riding date and other necessary matters are still filled in by the ticket seller. In addition, railway companies issued lifetime waivers made of ivory or gold and silver to their directors to show their privileges. As the superiority of railways becomes increasingly obvious and more and more passengers ride trains, the method of relying on ticket sellers to fill in tickets one by one is obviously lagging behind. As a result, the world-famous Edomons-style ticket, or hard-plate ticket, came into being. Edomonção tickets are printed on thick cardboard and have a size of 2 inches ×1 inch (57×30 mm). Due to the simplicity and ease of use, Edomons-style tickets were quickly adopted by British railway companies. In 1841, the Paris-Lyon railway in France opened and also used Edou-Monção tickets. Since then, this hard-plate ticket became popular around the world and gradually evolved into today's standard ticket. Edomonção tickets did not involve color. Later, the four major private railways in the UK reached an agreement stipulating that first-class tickets should be yellow or white, second-class tickets should be green or blue, and third-class tickets should be brown, auburn or green. Dog tickets are red, and other tickets should be orange. This agreement was later incorporated into the European Union of International Railways regulations on international tickets. It has a history of more than 189 years from the birth of the first train ticket to today, and the Edomonção ticket has always dominated and lasted forever. The history of train tickets in China After the founding of New China, the first generation of train tickets for China railways were hard-plate train tickets. Its size was 57×25 mm and the face was printed in Braille. There are express trains and slow trains. Express tickets have a red line printed on the face, and express tickets have two red lines printed on the face. The colors of the shading on the ticket are respectively specified as: light blue for soft seat tickets, light red for hard seat tickets, light purple for suburban tickets, light green for simple tickets, orange for boxcar tickets, etc. In the 1980s, Shenzhen Railway Station in China took the lead in using computer ticket sales, and tickets were also changed to soft paper train tickets. In 1997, the Ministry of Railways established a unified format for computer tickets. This electronic ticket is not printed in advance, but is printed on-site by a hot-transfer ticket issuing machine using non-impact printing technology at the time of ticket sales. Since July 2007, hard-plate train tickets that have been in use for more than 100 years have gradually withdrawn from the historical stage and have been completely replaced by nationally networked electronic tickets. All stations that implement computer-connected ticket sales can sell soft paper train tickets. Since 2008, railway stations in some large and medium-sized cities in China have begun to sell magnetic card train tickets. This magnetic card train ticket with a silver metallic luster is a one-time ticket with a higher hardness than a soft paper train ticket. The front of the ticket is printed with the EMU pattern, and the back of the ticket is printed with the instructions for railway passengers. When ticketing, a hot-transfer ticket issuing machine that uses non-impact printing technology prints on-site, and implants magnetic information and heat-sensitive information on the back of the ticket. Railway stations in many domestic cities use magnetic card train tickets to sell EMU train tickets and ordinary train tickets. Starting from December 10, 2009, the anti-counterfeiting barcode on the ticket will be changed into a QR code. Starting from December 10, 2009, the national railway ticketing system has been upgraded. The one-dimensional code anti-counterfeiting mark under the ticket has become a two-dimensional code anti-counterfeiting mark, making the anti-counterfeiting function more powerful. The national railway ticketing system encrypts train information using QR code coding software to generate QR codes, and prints them on the face of the train ticket. Therefore, the new version of the train ticket will have higher anti-counterfeiting. In addition to the common red soft paper train tickets, light blue magnetic card train tickets are also included in the upgrade. Starting from January 30, 2010, Guangzhou Railway Group and Chengdu Railway Bureau began to implement a real-name train ticket system to crack down on train ticket sellers. After the real-name system of train tickets is implemented, information such as QR codes, name of ticket buyers, ID card numbers and other information are added to the ticket face. Among them, 4 digits in the ID card number are replaced with asterisks to protect personal information. The relevant person in charge of the Transportation Bureau of the Ministry of Railways introduced that in the early days of implementing the real-name ticket system, due to the need for compatibility between old and new software, passenger identity information stored in QR codes was stored in accordance with industry standard technology and could be read through universal QR code reading software. The QR code of the train ticket uses special strong encryption technology to uniformly encrypt all information stored in it (including passenger identity information). It has strong confidentiality and can only be read through railway-specific reading software, and its anti-counterfeiting capabilities have been improved. Yao Feng, the stationmaster of Zhengzhou Railway Station, said that starting in 2010, the new version of train tickets will upgrade the original barcode on the ticket face to a QR code. The QR code has greater information capacity, is easy to read by machine, and can also be better anti-counterfeiting. Since 2010, the personal information of train tickets has been encrypted nationwide. Starting with bullet trains and high-speed rail tickets, all types of tickets have been encrypted. Therefore, no personal information will appear if the ticket is scanned now. Starting from June 12, 2011, Beijing-Tianjin intercity took the lead in piloting online ticketing, marking the first time that railway ticketing in the mainland of China has entered the era of Internet ticketing, testing the test of online ticketing for the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway. On June 30, 2011, online ticket sales were implemented when the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway opened. Starting from September 30, 2011, all high-speed rail and EMU trains will implement online ticketing. Starting from December 24, 2011, all passenger trains will implement online ticketing. Starting from January 8, 2014, the starting time for all "G" trains will be moved from 11:00 to 14:00. Starting from March 1, 2014, the 12306 website will verify the identity information of Internet ticket purchases. Starting from October 17, 2014, the 12306 ticketing system will be optimized and adjusted.