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=== {{anchor|APTIS ticket}}APTIS ticket ===
[[File:Annotated APTIS.jpg|thumb|A 1996 APTIS ticket for travel from Leamington Spa to Bradford-on-Avon]]
Before the introduction of [[APTIS]] (Accountancy and Passenger Ticket Issuing System), British Rail used the [[Edmondson railway ticket]], first introduced in the 1840s and phased out in the early 1970s. Tickets issued from British Rail's APTIS system had a considerable amount of information presented in a consistent, standard format. The design for all tickets was created by [[Colin Goodall]]. This format has formed the basis for all subsequent ticket issuing systems introduced on the railway network – ticket-office-based, self-service and conductor-operated machines alike. APTIS survived in widespread use for twenty years but, in the early 2000s, was largely replaced by more modern [[Personal computer|PC-based]] ticketing systems. Some APTIS machines in the [[Transport for London|Greater London area]] were modified as APTIS-ANT (with no obvious difference to the ticket issued) to make them [[Oyster card]] compatible.<ref>{{cite magazine |title = Ticketing: APTIS replacement takes shape |magazine = Modern Railways |issue = 631 |date = April 2001 |pages = 37–42}}</ref> The last APTIS machines were removed at the end of 2006 as there was no option to upgrade them to accept [[EMV|Chip and PIN]] credit card payments. The last APTIS-ANT ticket to be issued in the UK using one of the machines was at [[Upminster station]] on 21 March 2007.<ref name=Rail563>{{cite magazine |title = An apt end for BR's APTIS |magazine = [[Rail (magazine)|Rail]] |issue = 563 |date = 11 April 2007 |page =  14}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.c2c-online.co.uk/latest_updates/news/last_call_for_ticket_work_horse |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080724185058/http://www.c2c-online.co.uk/latest_updates/news/last_call_for_ticket_work_horse |title = Last call for ticket work horse |publisher = [[c2c]] |date = 23 March 2007|archive-date = 24 July 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |title = Last APTIS ticket sold |magazine = [[Today's Railways UK]] |issue = 66 |date = June 2007 |page = 11}}</ref>

Before the rail network was privatised, British Rail [[Concessionary fares on the British railway network|introduced several discount cards]] through the APTIS that were available to certain demographics, issued either by National or Regional schemes:

* [[16–25 Railcard]]
* [[Network Railcard|The Network Railcard]], introduced in 1986 by British Rail upon the creation of their [[Network SouthEast]] sector in parts of Southern England
* [[Disabled Persons Railcard]], introduced in 1981 to coincide with the [[International Year of Disabled Persons]].
* [[Senior Railcard]], introduced in 1970.