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{{Short description|Former ticket issuing system by Cubic}}
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{{Verification|date=June 2025}}{{Infobox British computerised railway ticket system | System=Cubic FasTIS | image= | Name=Cubic FasTIS | Usage=Ticket Office-based | Stock=Hopper-fed | Manuf=Cubic Transportation Systems | Date=April 2005 | Machines=0001-0395 | Windows=Upwards from 51 | Total=305 (as of May 2007) | Current=[[Transport for London]] | Former=[[South West Trains]]<br>
[[Govia Thameslink Railway]]<br>
[[Heathrow Express]]<br>
[[Northern Rail]]}}

'''Cubic FasTIS''' (Flexible and Secure Ticket Issuing System)<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2 October 2018 |title=Customer Journey Modernisation Review |url=https://www.rmt.org.uk/news/publications/customer-journey-modernisation-review-rmt-tssa/ |access-date=30 June 2025 |website=rmt.org.uk |publisher=[[RMT (trade union)|RMT]] and [[Transport Salaried Staffs' Association|TSSA]]}}</ref>{{Rp|page=35}} was a TIS (ticket issuing system) developed by Cubic for Transport for London and rolled out across a large number of National Rail stations in the London area.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |date=March 2021 |title=FasTIS Retirement |url=https://foi.tfl.gov.uk/FOI-0724-2122/TRU132_Redacted.pdf |journal=Ticketing and Revenue Update |publisher=[[Transport for London]] |issue=132 |access-date=30 June 2025 |via=[[tfl.gov.uk]]}}</ref> It could also be used by [[Revenue Protection Officer|Revenue Protection Officers]] to check the validity of possibly inauthentic tickets.<ref name=":0" />{{Rp|page=24}}

is the latest TIS introduced to the UK National Rail Retailers.  The prototype was piloted at Chiltern Railways [[High Wycombe railway station|High Wycombe station]] from April 2005, the second pilot machine was deployed at [[Banbury railway station|Banbury station]].  Following successful piloting, both [[Northern Rail]] and [[Chiltern Railways]] selected FasTIS to replace their [[APTIS]] fleet.

Notably, the prototype at High Wycombe was destroyed when the station burnt down on Sunday 27 November 2005.<ref>{{cite web|title=Chiltern Railways: High Wycombe station commences rebuilt (2 May 2007) |url=http://www.chilternrailways.co.uk/content.php?nID=news&ID=292&yID= |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070607185629/http://www.chilternrailways.co.uk/content.php?nID=news |archivedate=7 June 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Station blaze disrupts journeys|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/4476286.stm|publisher=[[BBC]]|date=27 November 2005|accessdate=2 January 2010}}</ref> FasTIS was rolled out across all Northern locations from around December 2005; Chiltern rolled out across their stations around mid-2006. Developed by [[Cubic Transportation Systems]], FasTIS is unique in embedding a journey planner. FasTIS was derived from the LUL Ticket Office Machine developed for the [[Transport for London|TfL]] Prestige Project.

CTSL was also the maintainer of heritage TISs &ndash; [[APTIS]] and [[PORTIS/SPORTIS|SPORTIS]] &ndash; after taking over [[Thorn Transit Systems]] in April 1997. A derivation of FasTIS called FasTIS+ was commissioned by [[Rail Settlement Plan|RSP]] in late 2006 to replace the APTIS-[[ANT (ticketing system)|ANT]] combination in London, used to retail TfL [[Oyster card]] products.  FasTIS+ fully integrates the TfL Oyster and National Rail sales, and 99 machines are currently deployed across in-zone London rail stations.

Cubic FasTIS is now being replaced by Cubic FTO machine - 64bit and [[Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard|PCI-DSS]] secure.

In June 2006, [[Northern Rail]] awarded a £2.3 million contract to Cubic for them to install FasTIS on their network,<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=20 June 2006 |title=Cubic to install ticket distribution system for U.K.'s Northern Rail |url=https://www.progressiverailroading.com/rail_industry_trends/news/Cubic-to-install-ticket-distribution-system-for-UKs-Northern-Rail--12464 |access-date=2025-06-30 |website=Progressive Railroading |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Cubic awarded contract to upgrade UK's Northern Rail ticket issuing system |url=https://www.secureidnews.com/news-item/cubic-awarded-contract-to-upgrade-uks-northern-rail-ticket-issuing-system/ |access-date=2025-06-30 |website=SecureIDNews |language=en-US}}</ref> which is equivalent to £{{Inflation|index=UK|value=2300000|start_year=2006|r=-5|fmt=c}} in {{Inflation/year|index=UK}}.{{Inflation/fn|index=UK}} This included 236 units installed at 153 stations. Cubic was contracted for the supply, installation, and maintenance of these machines.<ref name=":2" /> As of that date, Cubic was responsible for over 400 systems installed across five continents, including in [[London]], [[New York City]], [[Brisbane]], and [[Singapore]].<ref name=":3" />

By March 2021, the system had began to be withdrawn in due to train operating companies switching to alternative systems. This meant that stations in the London area would no longer be able to sell Oyster cards to customers. Surplus stocks of Oyster cards were transferred to London Underground stations where they could still be issued.<ref name=":1" />

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