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Railway Ticket Offices

Proceeding contribution from Chris Loder (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 13 September 2023. It occurred during Debate on Railway Ticket Offices.

I will address those points later, if the hon. Gentleman will allow me.

Moving staff from being solely behind the ticket office window to being more visibly present on the station, and directly helping passengers with purchasing tickets or helping people on and off trains, is a good concept. In principle, it is an initiative that I support, but behind the veil is the reality: at Sherborne station, the overall staffed hours will be 40% less than today; Crewkerne station in south Dorset, which serves the rural west of my constituency, will have its hours slashed by 50%; and the reality for Dorchester, the county town

of Dorset, is that South Western Railway currently proposes to slash the staffing presence at Dorchester South station by 55%.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
737 cc324-5WH 
Session
2022-23
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
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