Cllr Alan Chewings, Chair of Sawley Parish Council is backing a campaign which has been launched to stop the closure of Long Eaton train station ticket office. Campaigners say passengers will be put at risk with no staff on hand to deal with emergencies and that passengers with mobility issues would find it difficult to access the platforms if the lifts were not operating. Cllr Chewings said: “We were promised a better rail service locally, now we are seeing services cut and there is a threat to close our ticket office.”
The Department
for Transport say that the number of passengers using ticket offices over the
last nine years has dropped from 34% to 12% which is only one ticket in eight. East Midlands Railway say there are no plans to
close the ticket office at Long Eaton.
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