Abstract: In view of the special requirements of railway e-ticket to Automatic Fare Collection(AFC) system and equipment, this paper designed the overall architecture and network structure of the e-ticket based railway AFC system, took the off-line e-ticket cluster of CHINA RAILWAY as the center and adopted the technology of whole process passenger service record to implement the integrated service of online and offline ticket purchasing, designed the specific functions of the self-service equipment and the transformation scheme of the existing equipment. The feasibility of the scheme was verified by the application on the high-speed railway line, and the research directions of the future e-ticket AFC system and equipment were proposed.