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TSSA general secretary Maryam Eslamdoust warned train bosses and ministers they will face the 'force force' of the union if they try to resurrect plans to shut ticket offices

The Transport Secretary has pulled back now, but is he genuinely abandoning the journey, Paul Routledge asks, or merely changing trains and not the destination?

The Government has announced that it is scrapping the proposals drawn up by train firms to shut ticket counters at 974 railway stations across England

Operation close down ticket offices seems to be getting under way, despite calls from MPs warning it is 'too far, too fast', says Paul Routledge

The Commons Transport Committee said ministers must rethink plans to close ticket offices at 974 railway stations across England that will hit the disabled and elderly

The Daily Mirror is fighting to block the mass closure of 974 ticket officers across England, highlighting the impact on passengers, especially the elderly, and disabled

The plans to close almost every ticket office in England have caused outrage, with the Mirror campaigning to save them - and disabled rail users have now applied for a judicial review

The National Pensioners' Convention takes place in London later this month and the railway industry's plan to axe hundreds of front counters will be top of the agenda

Cabinet Minister Mark Harper doubled down on moves to shut 974 railway station front counters in a bid to save money, despite the plan triggering a huge backlash

Hopes are growing that railway firms will abandon controversial, Government-backed proposals to shut hundreds of ticket office counters across the network, after a huge backlash

The former Home Secretary said she and her constituents are "flabbergasted" at the proposed closure of 974 ticket offices, while minister Huw Merriman hinted at future climbdowns

Addressing MPs the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union general secretary said the cull was "designed to be rammed through while people were looking back the other way"

Labour's Shadow Transport Secretary Louise Haigh urged Rail Minister Huw Merriman to 'come clean' after she took apart his claims about the closure of rail ticket offices

The Tories are backing a controversial plan put forward by train bosses to close ticket counters at 974 railway stations across England - which has sparked a major backlash

The petition showing 'the power of the public' against the Tory-backed cull of 974 ticket counters comes just a fortnight after hundreds marched to No10 in protest at the plans

The public understands the important role ticket office staff play in helping passengers navigate their journeys and supporting frail and disabled customers

A public consultation is just a means of softening-up opinion, says Paul Routledge

Hundreds of campaigners took the fight to the PM’s doorstep as they joined a rally outside Downing Street. They marched through Westminster from the Department for Transport to No10

As the RMT prepares to hold a rally in Whitehall, responses to the public consultation on plans to shut ticket offices at 974 railway stations have hit half a million

More than 460,000 people have responded to a consultation into planned closures, which will hit the elderly, vulnerable and disabled - and put more than 2,300 station jobs at risk

Documents written by the rail companies themselves lay bare the true impact of the railway ticket office closures on disabled, elderly and vulnerable passengers

This Government seems hellbent on taking away everything of value the country has to offer and either giving it to the super-rich in the form of profit or throwing it in the bin

Sheila Cross, who uses Northallerton railway station in Rishi Sunak’s constituency, accused the Prime Minister of failing to understand what life is like for ordinary passengers

The RMT's Mick Lynch said the plan to shut ticket counters at 974 stations across England would result in vital staff members being cut, leaving vulnerable passengers without support

The Mirror is hosting an online event to fight railway ticket office closures TODAY at 5pm. You can watch live on this page or our YouTube channel