In 2002, a year before launching the system, Scheidt & Bachmann appointed British company The Needham Group as their local agent and distributor within Britain for all products and services in the Fare Collection Systems division. Their first sale was to the Scotland-based TOC ScotRail, which bought a batch of 27 machines at the start of 2004. It undertook no trial of the machines; other trial installations had taken place around this time at stations on the Central Trains and Chiltern Railways networks, though. The Scottish installation programme started with the introduction of multiple machines at Glasgow Central and Queen Street stations and Edinburgh's Waverley and Haymarket stations between January and March 2004. From April 2004 these were followed by further machines in central Scotland and at smaller stations on the North Berwick Line and Edinburgh to Bathgate Line. In February 2005, when installations at Dalgety Bay, Inverkeithing and Kirkcaldy were announced, ScotRail stated that more than one million tickets had been issued from Ticket XPress machines on its network since the installation programme began a year earlier.