Ticket offices: on track for closure?

Proposal to shut the vast majority of the 1,000-plus ticket offices across England has prompted uproar

Rail ticket office closure
Are ticket offices obsolete in 2023?
(Image credit: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

A “huge and worrying change” is coming down the railway track, said The Sunday Times.

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