I find that hard to believe, unless they have a massive amount of SPORTIS rolls, as I I'm pretty certain Bemrose Booth have discontinued producing SPORTIS ticket rolls (since Avantix machines now all use common stock, and as far as I was aware, SPORTIS was defunct). If not, I'd be very, very interested to find a machine in use still, and would be very interested in making some ticket purchases from it! That would be rare. (About as rare as the 3 surviving Ascom machines in use on the IoW :P)
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It must be said, talking to people on Northern who use Avantix machines, they often say they are nightmare, and prone to malfunctioning. The majority who remember SPORTIS say they would much prefer using the old technology, as they issue local tickets far quicker than Avantix. That said though, the thought of using a SPORTIS on an InterCity train does seem rather antiquated- the amount of manual imput from the NFM required would be fare more work than just writing the ticket on an XS fare pad (as GNER/ NXEC did until they adopted Avantix technology late last year- also, I'm pretty sure VWC used XS pads rather than SPORTIS, though they introduced Avantix a long time before - c. 2002).
