Talk:APTIS ticket features

APTIS Ticket Month Codings
Does anyone have any idea where the curious three-letter abbreviations for months on APTIS tickets originates? 93.93.133.82 (talk) 15:55, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't have a source to hand, but my understanding is that they were adopted as an anti-fraud measure – or at least, to make forgery more obvious to spot. (Not sure how effective it was!  However I have read of at least one case where a forged season ticket was spotted because of this.)  So having non-intuitive abbreviations was supposed to make it more likely for forgers to make a mistake.  For everybody else's info, the month abbreviations were as follows (non-intuitive in bold): JNR, FBY, MCH, APR, MAY, JUN, JLY, AUG, SEP, OCT, NOV, DMR.  I have recently done some research at The National Archives on the introduction of APTIS, so I'll see if there's anything in any of the hundreds of documents I went through.   Hassocks  5489 (Floreat Hova!)  17:08, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Current usage
Where is the APTIS-style layout still used? I ordered some tickets by post in June 2021 which have that layout. Are the Trainline the only ones still using it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Uncriticalsimon (talk • contribs) 22:36, 2 July 2021 (UTC)