APTIS

APTIS

Aptis ProStation next to an Aptis machine at the National Railway Museum, York
System information
Full name	All Purpose Ticket Issuing System
Machine type	Ticket Office-based
Type of ticket stock	Manual/Hopper-fed
Manufacturer	Thorn EMI, Wells
History
First introduced	October 1986
Machine number range	2000-5168
Window number range	Upwards from 01 Downwards from 99 (spare machines)
Machines in use	2,971 (maximum historic figure) 3 (as of March 2007)
Locations/areas/train operating companies
Current users	none
Former users	Before privatisation: - All passenger sectors of British Rail After privatisation: - All train operating companies

APTIS was the Accountancy and Passenger Ticket Issuing System used on the British Rail/National Rail network until 2007.^{[citation needed]} It was originally called "Advanced Passenger Ticket Issuing System" as it was being developed at the time of the Advanced Passenger Train.^{[citation needed]}

It was widely known as the All-Purpose Ticket-Issuing System, a description which was used during the development of the prototype devices.^[1][2]

It led to the introduction, on the national railway, of a new standardised machine-printable ticket, the APTIS ticket, which replaced the Edmondson railway ticket first introduced in the 1840s.