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

Q wrote:
I can confirm Oyster readers are installed (And covered) at BHK and
ENF
BHK has 1 or 2 in the booking office, 2 on the up road gate access
and 2 on the down road side access. The new (non oyster) ticket
machine has also been installed on the up road platform.


Most of the new ticket machines SWT are installing (from S&B) have a small
rectangular blanking plate to the right of the screen where the Smartcard
Pad will be fitted, maybe the NXEA machines have a similar blank fitted?

Paul S

Q wrote:

I can confirm Oyster readers are installed (And covered) at BHK and ENF

This probably isn't news, but I encountered one at Hendon last week.
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David of Broadway