Proposed Closures (Hansard, 31 July 1964)

§ Mr. Marples

The following is the information:

PROPOSALS TOR CLOSURE OF RAILWAY PASSENGER SERVICES OF WHICH NOTICE WAS GIVEN UNDER SECTION 56 OF THE TRANSPORT ACT, 1962, BETWEEN 1ST JUNE, 1963, AND 29TH JULY, 1964.

(Proposals to withdraw local or stopping services from lines on which other services will continue to operate are marked with an asterisk.)

(A) Proposals of which the Board gave notice but to which no objections were lodged:—

Newcastle—Washington.
Flax Bourton station, Somerset.
Exminster station, Devon.

(B) Proposals of which the Board has given notice but objections have not yet been considered by the T.U.C.C.'s:—

Liverpool Exchange—Wigan Wallgate.
^*Liverpool Lime Street—St. Helens—Wigan North Western.
Halwill—Torrington.
Dumfries—Kirkcudbright.
^*Glasgow—Dumfries—Carlisle.
Aberdeen—Ballater.
Oban—Connel Ferry—Ballachulish.
^*Fort William—Mallaig.
^*Edinburgh Princes Street—Glasgow Central.
Hamilton—Strathaven/Coalburn.
Killin J unction—Killin.
^*Edinburgh Princes Street—Carstairs—Lanark.
Huddersfield—Clayton West/Penistone.
^*Bradford Exchange—Mirfield—Huddersfield.
^*Bradford Exchange—Halifax—Huddersfield.
Peterborough—Grimsby.
Firsby—Skegness.
Willoughby—Mablethorpe.
^*Manchester Central—Chinley—Derby Midland.
^*Lincoln Central—Barnetby.
†Lincoln Central—Grantham.
Okehampton—Bude.
Halwill—Wadebridge.
^*Manchester Piccadilly—Glossop/Hadfield.
Manchester Victoria—Bury Bolton Street.
Liverpool Central—Gateacre—Warrington.
^*Liverpool Lime Sreet—Chester General.
^*Crewe—Chester General.
^*Glasgow Buchanan Street—Stirling—Oban.
Greenhill station, Stirling.
^*Glasgow St. Enoch—Lugton—Kilmarnock.
Glasgow St. Enoch—Barrhead.
Glasgow St. Enoch—East Kilbride.
^*Glasgow St. Enoch—Paisley West.
^*Glasgow St. Enoch—Kilmacolm.
^*Glasgow St. Enoch—Dairy—Kilmarnock.
^*Shrewsbury—Aberystwyth.
Felixstowe Beach station, Suffolk.
^*Ipswich—Norwich.
†‡Stalybridge—Diggle via Micklehurst.
†Southport St. Lukes—Pool Hey Junction via Blowick.
Barnstaple Junction—Torrington.
†Folkestone East station, Kent.

Three Bridges—Groombridge.
Eridge—Hailsham.
^*Aviemore—Forres.
^*Leeds City—Shipley—Bradford Forster Square.
^*Leeds City and Bradford Forster Square —Ilkley—Skipton.
^*Leeds City and Bradford Forster Square— Keighley—Skipton.
^*Nottingham Midland—Sheffield Midland.
^*Derby Midland—Sheffield Midland.
^*Pye Bridge—Kirkby-in-Ashfield East.
Ryde Pier Head—Ventnor/Cowes.
York—Hull.
Selby—Driffield.
Lancaster Castle/Lancaster Green Ay re—Heysham.
Dunstable North—Hatfield.
†East Brixton Station, London.
^*Oxford—Worcester Shrub Hill.
†Oxford—Bletchley—Cambridge.
Middlesbrough—Whitby—Scarborough.
Malton—Whitby.
Croxley Green—Bushey and Oxhey.
Buxton—Millers Dale.

(D) Proposals in connection with which the T.U.C.C.'s have made reports to the Minister:—

Workington—Penrith.
^*Carlisle—Hellifield.
Glazebrook—Stockport Tiviot Dale.
^*Manchester Exchange—Tyldesley—Wigan North Western.
Leek—Uttoxeter.
Darlington—Richmond.
New Holland—Barton-on-Humber.
Cleethorpes—New Holland.
Cleethorpes—Immingham Dock.
Lincoln Central—Woodhall Junction—Firsby.
Taunton—Barnstaple Junction.
Tiverton Junction—Tiverton.
^*Taunton—Exeter St. Davids.
Bristol Temple Meads—Bath (Green Park).
Bath (Green Park)—Bournemouth West.
Berkeley Road—Lydney Town.
Highbridge—Evercreech Junction.
^*Taunton—Weston-super-Mare.
St. Margarets—Buntingford.
Harrow and Wealdstone—Belmont.
Watford Junction—Croxley Green.
West Drayton and Yiewsley—Staines West.
Carmarthen—Aberystwyth.
^*Worcester Shrub Hill—Gloucester Eastgate—Bristol Temple Meads.
Darlington—Bishop Auckland—Crook.
Monkseaton—Newbiggin.
Newcastle—Newbiggin.
Newsham—Blyth.
Darlington—Barnard Castle—Middleton-in-Teesdale.
Leeds City—Knottingley.
Wakefield—Goole.
Leeds Central—Castleford Central—Pontefract.
Cambridge—St. Ives—March.
Witham—Maldon East.
Leicester London Road—Burton-on-Trent.
Nottingham Midland—Worksop.
^*Didcot—Oxford—Leamington Spa.
Shoreham by Sea—Christ's Hospital.
Christ's Hospital—Guildford.
^* Didcot—Swindon.
^*Swindon—Kemble—Gloucester Central.
^*Plymouth—Penzance.
Lostwithiel—Fowey.
^*Cheltenham Spa—Swansea High Street.
Widnes Loop.
St. Helens Shaw Street—Warrington Bank Quay.
Wolverhampton High Level—Burton-on-Trent.
Birmingham New Street—Sutton Park-Walsall.
^*Blackpool North—Fleetwood.
Nuneaton (Trent Valley)—Coventry—Leamington Spa.
^*Stourbridge Junction—Worcester—Hereford.
Walsall—Rugeley (Trent Valley).
Ballinluig—Aberfeldy.
Thornton—Crail—Dundee.
^*Aberdeen—Inverurie.
^*Aberdeen—Keith—Elgin.
^*Perth—Blair Atholl—Struan.
Bangor—Amlwch.
Ruabon—Barmouth.
Rossett Station, Denbighshire.
Bala Junction—Bala.
Bangor—Afon Wen.
Newcastle—Riverside—Tynemouth.
^*Stratford-on-Avon—Honeybourne.
Lana rk—Muirkirk.
^*Bath Spa—Swindon.
Bristol Temple Meads—Avonmouth Dock.
Bristol Temple Meads—Clifton Down—Pilning.
Bristol Temple Meads—Patchway—Pilning.
Llandudno—Blaenau Ffestiniog.
Brent Station, Devon.
Kingskerswell Station, Devon.
^*Inverness—Elgin.
Dalwhinnie—Aviemore—Inverness.
Aviemore—Craigellachie—Elgin / Keith.
Dalnaspidal Station, Perthshire.
^*Glasgow Central—Carlisle.
Whitchurch—Welshpool.
Llanymynech—Llanfyllin.
Sunderland—South Shields.

(E) Proposals to which the Minister has given consent:

§ Kemble—Tetbury.
§ Kemble—Cirencester.
§Sheringham—Melton Constable.
§ Stoke-on-Trent—Silverdale.
^*Middlesbrough—Guisborough.
§Porth—Maerdy.
§ Barry—Bridgend.
§ Cardiff Clarence Road—Cardiff General.
§ Caerphilly—Senghenydd.
§Trentham station, Staffs.
§Selby—Goole.
§^*║Swansea—Fishguard/Pembro-ke Dock/Milford Haven/Neyland.
Carlisle—Silloth.
§Sunderland—Durham—Bishop Auckland.
§ Swaffham—Thetford.
§Salisbury—Fordingbridge—Bournemouth.
§Brockenhurst—Ringwood—Bournemouth.
§Taunton—Yeovil Pen Mill.
§^*Edinburgh Waverley—Dunbar.
§ Langholm—Riddings Junction—Carlisle.
Edinburgh Waverley—Berwick - upon Tweed.
§^*Craigendoran—Arrochar.
Fraserburgh—St. Combs.
§St. Boswells—Berwick-upon-Tweed.
§ Kilmarnock—Ardrossan.
§Wivenhoe—Brightlingsea.
Dereham—Wells-next-the-Sea.
§Northampton Castle—Peterborough East
§Wellingborough Midland Road—Northampton Castle.
§Crowhurst—Bexhill West.
§ Leeds Central—Pudsey—Bradford Exchange.
§Ettingshall Road and Bilston station. Staffs.
§Walsall—Dudley.
§^*Banbury—Woodford Halse.
Worcester—Bromyard.
§Stirling—Alloa—Kinross—Perth.
Southport Chapel Street—Preston.
Southport Chapel Street, Crossens.
Audley End—Bartlow.
§Gleneagles—Crief—Comrie.
Stafford—Wellington.
^*Wellington—Shrewsbury.
Wolverton—Newport Pagnell.
North Walsham—Mundesley-on-Sea.
Derby Friargate—Nottingham Victoria.
§Kidsgrove—Etruria (Stoke Loop)
§Normacot station, Staffs.
§Abercynon—Aberdare.
§Leeds City—Wetherby—Harrogate.
§Wetherby—Church Fenton.
§^*Sunderland—West Hartlepool.
§Ayr—Dalmellington.
§Kilmarnock—Darvel.
§Elgin—Lossiemouth.
§Hurstbourne station, Hants.
§Knowle Halt, Hants.
§Puxton and Worle station, Somerset.
§Spon Lane station, Staffs.
§Swan Village—Great Bridge.
§Dudley—Old Hill.
§Banff—Tillynaught.
§^*Edinburgh Princes Street—Kingsknowe.
†§Woodhead station, Derby.
Ford station, Devon.
Devonport (Kings Road) station, Plymouth.
Bradford Exchange—Batley—Wakefield.
^*Edinburgh Waverley—Musselburgh.
║Dumfries—Stranraer.
Gloucester—Hereford.
^*║Glasgow Queen Street—Kirkintilloch.
Bristol Temple Meads—Portishead.
Romsey—Andover.
Manchester Victoria—Newton Heath—Middleton.
Wigan Central—Glazebrook.
Coatbridge—Dumbartion.
†Blackpool Central, Lancs.
Castlethrope station, Bucks.
Roade station, Northants.
Mow Cop and Scholar Green station, Cheshire.
^*Stations on the Ayr—Stranraer line (Kilkerran, Dailly, Pinmore, Pinwherry, Barrhill, Glenwhilly, New Luce).
Hull—Withernsea.
Hull—Hornsea.
Buckingham—Bletchley.
Aberdeen—Fraserburgh.
Maud—Peterhead.
Stations on the Inverness—Wick/Thurso line (Invershin, Dumobin, Salzcraggie, Kildonan, Borrobol, Forsinard, Hoy).
Stations on the Inverness/Kyle of Lochalsh line (Achtermeed, Glencarron, Duncraig).

(F) Proposals to which the Minister has refused consent:—

Cardiff—Coryton.
Kilmarnock—Ayr.
Inverness—Wick/Thurso (through services and the stations and halts at Dingwall, Invergordon, Fearn, Tain, Bonar Bridge, Culrain, Laing, Rogart, Golspie, Brora, Helmsdale, Kinbrace, Altnabreac, Scots-calder, Georgemas Junction).
Inverness—Kyle of Lochalsh (through services and the stations and halts at Garve, Lochluichant, Achanalt, Achna-sheen, Achnashellach, Strathcarron, Attadale, Strome Ferry, Duirinish, Plackton).
Gowerton North station, Glam.
Narberth station, Pembroke.
Lamphey station, Pembroke.
Clarbeston Road station, Pembroke.
Bishopsbriggs station, Dunbarton.
^*Stranraer Town station, Wigtownshire.
Stranraer Harbour station, Wigtownshire.
¶Ayr—Stranraer.
Manchester Piccadilly—Buxton.
† Not listed for closure in the Reshaping Report.
‡ No objection yet received.
§ Closure has already taken place.
║ Consent refused to closure of certain stations listed in Section (F).
¶ Consent given to the closure of certain stations listed in Section E.