One in Four Ticket Offices to Close

[jay38a]

Hi all

Mentioned in the Telegraph on 05th Sepember, that 1 in 4 ticket offices might close (thats 675 stations to loose staff) as part of the governments £1 billion spending cut on the Railways.

The more worrying fact is that its not just country stations that are loosing staff, some stations in London will loose them like Willesden, Slade Green & Belvedere. Greenhithe is also set to loose its staff which seems stupid as its so close to the 2nd (soon to be 3rd) largest shopping centre in Europe. Some Stations may close also but this will be left to the TOCs to decide.

Lets just not hope the TOCs dont decide to close a haud of Stations like Beeching did in the 60s.

The Link to the Article is here: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/8741943/One-in-four-railway-ticket-offices-faces-the-axe.html

and a list of the 675 stations to loose their ticket offices and staff is here: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/8743170/List-of-675-railway-station-ticket-offices-to-close.html

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Acton Main Line has no ticket office to close.
Almost all London Overground's NLL ticket offices are listed, but London Overground insist there are no plans to close any of their ticket offices.
Folkestone Harbour Station hasn't seen a train in ten years.
Castle Bar Park is an unlikely candidate as the ticket machines were removed in 2005 due to persistent vandalism

[Steve09]

Belvedere is never staffed as adequately as it should be anyway according to the NR page for the station and most of the time only open for about three hours from about 8 to just before midday which can be annoying. Most people use Abbey Wood as the ticket office is open alot more and the fast trains stop there.

Willesden Junction has two ticket offices, both of which you can use to access all platforms (Bakerloo line, Watford DC and North London Line) and the office nearest the NL Line appears to have been refurbished recently :/ Elephant & Castle is another silly one as it's in a busy area and at the only interchange between Thameslink and the Bakerloo Line.