Tuesday, March 01, 2005

Railway Station closures

Some railway news that most British taxpayers should welcome. Action is being taken to close underused railway stations in the West Midlands to start reducing the £5 billion (!) annual taxpayer subsidy to the railways. To quote The Times, "At Norton Bridge, typically only one person boarded each train. Even at Stone, the best-used of the five stations, each of the 18 daily trains picked up an average of just four passengers."

Hopefully, railway stations in other areas will also be pruned back. It will also make rail travel quicker for other users of course as there will be fewer stops!!

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