GRG Banking says it has won a contract to supply all together 70 ticket vending machines for Beijing-Tianjin Inter-city Express Railway. It is the company’s first time to deploy railway self-service products in China.

GRG Banking’s 55 M822 (Railway tickets vending machine) and 15 M822Z (Platform tickets vending machine) are now in operation in Beijing South Station and Tianjin Station of the express railway. All machines are able to accept banknotes with different denominations as well as credit cards.

Beijing-Tianjin Inter-city Express Railway is the first international inter-city express railway in China with independent intellectual property right. It has adopted a series of new high-tech on its equipments, among which the ticket vending machine (TVM) is one of the highlights.

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