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Originally Posted by Thomas Ralph
Airline tickets and boarding passes are verified by checking them off a computer system when they're tendered for use. IÉ tickets are not so verified at the ticket gate or on the train, so they have to be relatively forgery-proof.
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It works in other countries.
I've travelled on an e-ticket on Finnish railway. The print out has a bar-code that can be scanned by the train guard when he's going through the train.
Not that difficult a system to implement and probably available for purchase off the shelf.