My father just found this train ticket from the Belgian Railways in a second hand book in Tiel, The Netherlands. Is there anything special about it?

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1. Aside from the fact that this design is no longer in use, not really.

2. That’s is from someone that went to the Netherlands (‘s Hertogenbosch).

3. It’s not valid anymore. And the price was still in BEF and they assumed the EUR would be called ECU.

4. The special thing is how cheap it was to get to NL with that ticket.

5. When you read books.. anything can be a bookmarker if it’s thin enough. 👀

6. De goeien ouwen tijd zonder diabolo toeslag…

7. Wow dat is goedkoop, nu kost een enkeltje Den Bosch aan het automaat zeker wel het dubbele…

8. Maybe to a collector, but that’s gonna be a pretty small market.

9. They made really good bookmark ^^

10. Weird I never saw a ticket in chinese

11. I thought I had a few of these, but they’re actually just [lookalikes](https://imgur.com/EaHiDb9). Well, it might be the exact same ticket, sold by NMBS to go to the Netherlands, except yours are an older version.

12. Pretty sure it was just used as a bookmark

13. I had a colleague who made the collection of train tickets but mostly STIB MIVB tickets.

    Sometime the serial number, the trip or the date on the tickets are interesting .
    For instance before the Mobib a ticket checked the 11/12/13 at 14:15 at Stockel which is the station number 16 for the STIB MIVB.

14. Zeer waardevol document: enige rit in de geschiedenis van de Belgische spoorwegen die op het aangegeven tijdstip vertrok én aankwam.

15. Wel, de geldigheidsdatum is verstreken.
    Edit, English add: well it’s past it’s validity date

16. The ECU was in that time not equal to what the Euro is now. 880 bef is actually 21,81 euro.
    And as others have mentioned, the tunnel wasn’t open yet, you had to take the train from the aiport to Brussels-Nord first, then get on a train to Antwerp/’s Hertogenbosch

17. I think it’s rather special, I’m 3 days older than this ticket, i don’t know why, but that feels kind of weird to me

18. Its an alibi! Niche marketing.

19. Souvenir!

20. It was paid by “CA”, is that *card* or *cash*…?