Department for Transport

Railway Stations [[ticket office reductions]]
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date 14 June 2012
source Department for Transport
type Written answer

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Railway Stations

Maria Eagle: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport which train operating companies have made requests to (a) close and (b) reduce opening hours at station ticket offices in the latest period for which figures are available; and in respect of which stations such applications have been made. [110066]

Mrs Villiers: Since May 2010:

(a) there has been a request from one train operating company, London Midland, to close station ticket offices as shown in the following table.

(b) there have been requests from seven train operating companies: Chiltern Railways; East Coast; East Midlands Trains; London Midland; Northern Rail; Southeastern; and South West Trains, to reduce opening hours at station ticket offices as shown in the table.

Train operating company
Station

Requests to close station ticket offices

London Midland
Adderley Park
Bescot Stadium
Cheddington
Duddeston
Jewellery Quarter
Lye
Small Heath
Witton
Wythall

Requests to reduce station ticket offices opening hours

Chiltern Railways
Aylesbury Vale Parkway
Aylesbury
Banbury

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Beaconsfield
Bicester North
Birmingham Moor Street
Denham
Gerrards Cross
Great Missenden
Haddenham and Thame Parkway
High Wycombe
London Marylebone
Northolt Park
Princes Risborough
Seer Green and Jordans
Stoke Mandeville
Warwick
Warwick Parkway
Wendover

East Coast
Darlington
Durham

East Midlands Trains
Melton Mowbray

London Midland
Acocks Green
Apsley
Aston
Berkhamsted
Bletchley
Berkswell
Birmingham Snow Hill
Blake Street.
Bournville
Butlers Lane
Canley
Chester Road
Coleshill Parkway
Coseley
Cradley Heath
Droitwich Spa
Dudley Port
Edrington
Five Ways
Four Oaks
Gravelly Hill
Great Malvern
Hall Green
Hampton-in-Arden
Hamstead
Hartford
Hemel Hempstead
Kidderminster
Kings Langley
Kings Norton
Langley Green
Lea Hall

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Leighton Buzzard
Lichfield City
Lichfield Trent Valley
Longbridge
Long Buckby
Malvern Link
Marston Green
Northfield
Nuneaton
Old Hill
Olton
Perry Barr
Redditch
Rowley Regis
Sandwell & Dudley
Selly Oak
Shirley
Smethwick Galton Bridge
Smethwick Rolfe Street
Spring Road
Stechford
Stourbridge Junction
Stourbridge Town
Stratford upon Avon
Sutton Coldfield
Tame Bridge Parkway
Telford Central
The Hawthorns
Tile Hill
Tipton
Tyseley
University
Walsall
Wellington
Widney Manor
Winsford
Wolverton
Worcester Foregate Street
Worcester Shrub Hill
Wylde Green
Yardley Wood

Northern Rail
Halifax
Northwich
Mexborough
Thorne North
Wilmslow
Worksop

Southeastern
Canterbury East
Sittingbourne
Tunbridge Wells

South West Trains
Feniton

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Sherborne
Templecombe

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