J Lynch wrote:

In what sense can FasTIS "do the lot" if it cannot issue two growing
(if still small) segments of the ticketing market as you identify?

FasTIS offers the full range of National Rail products, though for
things like PlusBus, the add-on needs to be issued separately from the
travel ticket.

As for Ticket on Departure, I believe the possibility of getting it
enabled on FasTIS is being looked into, given it's the only one of the
next generation Ticket Issuing Systems with no facility for ToD recall
(however, there are procedures that can be brought into play to issue
replacement tickets if there's a Self-Service Machine failure).

I do not know these stations well enough - are there self service
ticket machines available that are now (and will continue to be)
capable of issuing ToD bookings?

Some stations do (primarily Shere FAST machines, though FCC are
installing Scheidt and Bachmann machines to replace their old Ascom
ones), with a steadily increasing number offering ToD.

Cheers,

Barry