The Guardian view on closing train station ticket offices: the wrong route Editorial

The Guardian - Modernisation does not have to mean closures and cuts. The government and train companies should think again.
In 1963, as the cost-cutting axe fell on railway branch lines across the country, the popular songwriters Flanders and Swann mourned their loss in elegiac verse: No one departs, no one arrives / From Selby to Goole, from St Erth to St Ives / Theyve all passed out of our lives.