The invention discloses a rail traffic ticket card recovery system. The system comprises a casing, a ticket inlet channel, a rotating plate, a lifting driving mechanism, a recovery box and a waste ticket box, wherein the ticket inlet channel is fixedly mounted on one side of the casing, the rotating plate is mounted below the ticket inlet channel, the middle of the rotating plate is hinged to thecasing through a rotating shaft, the lifting driving mechanism is arranged at one end of the rotating plate, the waste ticket box is arranged at the other end, the lifting driving mechanism comprisesa vertical plate, a ball screw, a vertical moving table and a ticket card stacking plate, the vertical plate is fixed on a bottom plate of the casing, two guide tracks are arranged on the vertical plate and are perpendicular to the horizontal plane, the vertical moving table is glidingly connected to the tracks, the ticket card stacking plate is arranged at the upper part of the vertical moving table, the ball screw is arranged between the parallel guide rails, and a nut of the ball screw is fixedly connected with the vertical moving table. The ticket card recovery speed is increased, and thesystem is simple in structure.