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‘Why more time MUST be taken to to rethink ticket office shutdown plans’

Axing even popular, busy ones will ­intensify the backlash and strengthen the legal case of Labour mayors preparing a court challenge

Under pressure to extend consultations on shutting all train station ticket offices, rail companies and their Fat Controllers in No10 should listen to passengers.

Axing even popular, busy ones will ­intensify the backlash and strengthen the legal case of Labour mayors preparing a court challenge to decisions that appear to have been taken before anybody was asked what they thought.

The TUC’s High Court win against the Tories’ strike-breaking agency worker regulations, proving they were unlawful, should be a warning to any bosses hell-bent on a rail crash.

Ticket offices are valued by those who use them, particularly the elderly and vulnerable, and those of us who are bamboozled by often confusing platform machines.

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