metrocammel
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The last APTIS machine on the Northern Rail network was issued late last week: http://www.northernrail.org/images/upload/News Release - Pick Picks Up Last Ticket - 08_09_06.pdf
Out of interest, the bloke in the picture, on the right Alex, was one of the people who i "shadowed" on my work experience with Northern a couple of weeks ago. In retrospect, Im annoyed I didn't ask him if anywhere still used APTIS, as I assumed it had gone already throughout Northern. I needed a platform ticket off Congleton's machine, as I had one from nearly every station in the "Manchester area", but not blo*dy Congleton!
Anyway, now APTIS is pretty much dead, surviving only in very limited numbers down south, namely (afaik), at Greenwich (due to Oyster-ant being required), City Thameslink (but not for issuing tickets - Oyster validation only), South Kenton (not confirmed, but apparently still is main TIS and Oyster validation), also London Marylebone still has one machine, however it is simply there as a backup for the notoriously slow new Cubic "FasTIS" machines, which are having lots of "teething troubles"- unlike with ARJIS (which is the computer system which allowed reservations to be made in conjunction with APTIS, ie you reserved a seat / booked an APEX ticket on the computer, then printed the ticket out on the APTIS machine) the new system doesn't let you check multiple journeys at once, all journeys have to be searched manually, so in theory much slower than the system it has replaced. Anway, I shall stop before this digressed into a rant about new fangled technology. Also, if anyone knows of a station still with an APTIS machine (a big grey coloured square boxy ticket machine, that prints on non-shiny ticket stock) please let me know!
Out of interest, the bloke in the picture, on the right Alex, was one of the people who i "shadowed" on my work experience with Northern a couple of weeks ago. In retrospect, Im annoyed I didn't ask him if anywhere still used APTIS, as I assumed it had gone already throughout Northern. I needed a platform ticket off Congleton's machine, as I had one from nearly every station in the "Manchester area", but not blo*dy Congleton!
Anyway, now APTIS is pretty much dead, surviving only in very limited numbers down south, namely (afaik), at Greenwich (due to Oyster-ant being required), City Thameslink (but not for issuing tickets - Oyster validation only), South Kenton (not confirmed, but apparently still is main TIS and Oyster validation), also London Marylebone still has one machine, however it is simply there as a backup for the notoriously slow new Cubic "FasTIS" machines, which are having lots of "teething troubles"- unlike with ARJIS (which is the computer system which allowed reservations to be made in conjunction with APTIS, ie you reserved a seat / booked an APEX ticket on the computer, then printed the ticket out on the APTIS machine) the new system doesn't let you check multiple journeys at once, all journeys have to be searched manually, so in theory much slower than the system it has replaced. Anway, I shall stop before this digressed into a rant about new fangled technology. Also, if anyone knows of a station still with an APTIS machine (a big grey coloured square boxy ticket machine, that prints on non-shiny ticket stock) please let me know!