The first machines in live use went into service on Thameslink stations, starting with St Albans.

Small numbers of machines were deployed at other stations, including Leeds, Manchester Piccadilly and London Paddington.

B8070 machines were fitted with an industrial PC connected to the UK rail wide area network.

This offered a significant advantage over the B8050 in support terms, giving the ability to connect to each machine from a central location and: A significant advantage of the Avantix B8070 over the Ascom B8050 was the ability to handle credit card payments.

Several train operating companies took the opportunity to customise the front of the machine with branded graphics.