Government plans to close railway ticket offices hit the buffer

The government has backtracked on plans to close railway ticket offices following a consultation that saw widespread opposition to the plans from the public.The plans, announced earlier this year would have seen the majority of ticket offices in stations in England closed, and the staff redirected to other tasks in the station. The argument was that just 12 percent of train tickets were bought in a ticket office, so it’s not a huge leap for those people to switch to ticket machines or onli