Passenger Services (Proposed Closures) (Hansard, 19 January 1965)

§ Mr. Galbraith
asked the Minister of Transport, if he will give a complete list to date of the railway passenger services proposed for closures in sections 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of Appendix II of the British Railways Board Report, The Reshaping of British Railways, and similar proposals made since the publication of the Report, indicating the latter in each case, which have been the subject of closure application by the British Railways Board, which have been the subject of hearings of objections by the transport users' consultative committees, in respect of which hearings transport users' consultative committees have forwarded their report to him, to which he has given his consent, indicating those which the Board have already withdrawn, and to 50W which he has refused consent, respectively.

§ Mr. Tom Fraser
The following is the information:
PROPOSALS FOR CLOSURES OF RAILWAY PASSENGER SERVICES OF WHICH NOTICE WAS GIVEN UNDER SECTION 56 OF THE TRANSPORT ACT 1962 BETWEEN 1ST JUNE, 1963 AND 18TH JANUARY, 1965.

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

Newcastle—Washington.

Flax Bourton station, Somerset.

Exminster station, Devon.

§Stalybridge—Micklehurst—Diggle.

(B) Proposals in respect of which the Board have 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.

Manchester Central—Chinley—Derby Midland.

^*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—Dalry—Kilmarnock.

Stockport—Stalybridge.

Tipton St. John's—Exmouth.

^*Salisbury—Exeter.

Sidmouth Junction—Sidmouth.

Seaton Junction—Seaton.

^*Bedwyn—Westbury.

Patney and Chirton—Holt Junction.

Chippenham—Calne.

^*Chippenham—Trowbridge—Westbury.

^*Derby Midland—Tamworth—Birmingham New Street.

York—Harrogate.

Harrogate—Northallerton.

Kettering—Leicester London Road.

^*§Birmingham New Street—Worcester Shrub Hill.

§Birmingham New Street—Redditch.

Kettering—Nottingham/Leicester via Melton Mowbray.

Okehampton—Bere Alston.

Gunnislake—Callington.

^*Manchester Central—Chinley—Hope—Sheffield.

^*Manchester Exchange/Victoria—Huddersfield.

^*Manchester Exchange/Victoria—Stalybridge—Greenfield.

Manchester Victoria—Oldham—Rochdale.

Royton—Royton Junction.

Manchester Victoria—Rochdale—Todmorden.

^*Liverpool Lime Street—Tyldesley—Patricroft—Manchester Exchange.

^*Birmingham New Street—Leicester London Road—Nottingham Midland.

Leicester London Road—Nottingham Midland.

Rugby—Peterborough East.

Seaton—Stamford.

^*Leicester London Road—Peterborough.

^*Derby Midland—Nottingham Midland.

§Grove Ferry and Upstreet station, Kent.
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§Boscombe station, Hants.

^*Chester—Holyhead/Llandudno.

^*Leeds—Skipton—Morecambe-Heysham.

§Farnley Junction—Spen Valley Junction via Heckmondwike.

Wigan Wallgate—Bolton—Bury—Rochdale.

Manchester Victoria—Bury—Bacup.

Manchester Victoria—Bury—Accrington.

Brompton station, Yorkshire.

Bournemouth West station, Hants.

(C) Proposals, objections to which have been heard by the T. U. C. C.'s but they have not yet reported to the Minister:—

Three Bridges—Groombridge.

Buxton—Millers Dale.

^*Lincoln Central—Barnetby.

§Lincoln Central—Grantham.

Rosegrove—Todmorden.

^* Bristol—Bath—Westbury—Weymouth.

Earby—Barnoldswick.

Yeovil Town—Yeovil Pen Mill.

Yeovil Junction—Yeovil Town.

^*Ipswich—Norwich.

Romford—Upminster.

Ulverston—Lakeside (Windermere)

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

Workington—Penrith.

New Holland—Barton-on-Humber.

Cleethorpes—New Holland.

Cleethorpes—Immingham Dock.

Lincoln Central—Woodhall Junction—Firsby.

Bristol Temple Meads—Bath (Green Park).

Bath (Green Park)—Bournemouth West.

Highbridge—Evercreech Junction.

Watford Junction—Croxley Green.

Croxley Green—Bushey and Oxhey.

Leeds City—Knottingley.

Wakefield—Goole.

Cambridge—St. Ives—March.

Shoreham-by-Sea—Christ's Hospital.

Christ's Hospital—Guildford.

St. Helens Shaw Street—Warrington Bank Quay.

Thorton—Crail—Dundee.

^*††Aberdeen—Keith—Elgin.

Stratford-on-Avon—Honeybourne.

^*Oxford—Worcester Shrub Hill.

Eridge—Hailsham.

Ryde—Cowes/Ventnor.

York—Hull.

Selby—Driffield.

Dunstable North—Hatfield.

Lancaster Castle/Lancaster Green Ayre—Morecambe—Heysham.

Okehampton—Bude.

Halwill—Wadebridge.

Aberdeen—Ballater.

^*Edinburgh Princes Street—Carstairs—Lanark.

Liverpool Central—Gateacre—Warrington.

^*Bradford Exchange—Mirfield—Huddersfield.

^*Bradford Exchange—Halifax—Huddersfield.

Huddersfield—Clayton West/Penistone.

§Oxford—Bletchley—Cambridge.

Oban—Connel Ferry—Ballachulish.

^*Manchester Piccadilly—Glossop/Hadfield.
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§Southport St. Lukes—Pool Hey Junction via Blowick.

^*Glasgow—Dumfries—Carlisle.

Dumfries—Kirkcudbright.

Barnstaple Junction—Torrington.

Hamilton—Strathaven/Coalburn.

^*Derby Midland—Sheffield Midland.

^*Nottingham Midland—Sheffield Midland.

^*Pye Bridge—Kirkby-in-Ashfield East.

^*Liverpool Lime Street—Chester General.

^*Crewe—Chester General.

Peterborough—Grimsby.

Firsby—Skegness.

Willoughby—Mablethorpe.

^*Crewe—Shrewsbury.

Killin Junction—Killin.

^*Glasgow Buchanan Street—Stirling—Oban.

§East Brixton station, London.

Axminster—Lyme Regis.

§Folkestone East station, Kent.

Manchester Victoria—Bury Bolton Street.

Aviemore—Forres.

^*Fort William—Mallaig.

Greenhill station, Stirling.

Haigh station, Yorkshire.

Crigglestone station, Yorkshire.

Bolton Percy station, Yorkshire.

Ferrybridge station, Yorkshire.

Ulleskelf station, Yorkshire.

Sherburn-in-Elmet station, Yorkshire.

Dundee West station, Angus.

Manchester Victoria—Horwich.

^*Ely—Newmarket.

(E) Proposals to which consent has been given:—

(a) before 16th October, 1964:

†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/Pembroke Dock/Milford Haven/Neyland.

†Carlisle—Silloth.

†Sunderland—Durham—Bishop Auckland.

†Swaffham—Thetford.

†Salisbury—Fordingbridge—Bournemouth.

†Brockenhurst—Ringwood—Bournemouh.

†Taunton—Yeovil Pen Mill.

^*†Edinburgh Waverley—Dunbar.

†Langholm—Riddings Junction—Carlisle.

^*†Edinburgh Waverley—Berwick-upon Tweed.

^*†Craigendoran—Arrochar.

Fraserburgh—St. Combs.

†Kilmarnock—Ardrossan.

†Wivenhoe—Brightlingsea.

†Dereham—Wells-next-the-Sea.

†Northampton Castle—Peterborough East.

†Wellington Midland Road—Northampton Castle.

†Crowhurst—Bexhill West.

†Leeds Central—Pudsey—Bradford Exchange.

†Ettingshall Road and Bilston station, Staffs.

†Walsall—Dudley.
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^*†Banbury—Woodford Halse.

†Worcester—Bromyard.

†Stirling—Alloa—Kinross—Perth.

†Southport Chapel Street—Preston.

†Southport Chapel Street—Crossens.

†Audley End—Bartlow.

†Gleneagles—Crieff—Comrie.

†Stafford—Wellington.

^*†Wellington—Shrewsbury.

†Wolverton—Newport Pagnell.

†North Walsham—Mundesley-on-Sea.

†Derby Friar Gate—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—Dumbarton.

§†Blackpool Central, Lancs.

†Castlethorpe 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, Dunrobin, Salzcraggie, Kildonan, Borrobol, Forsinard, Hoy).

Stations on the Inverness/Kyle of Lochalsh line (Achterneed, Glencarron, Duncraig).

^*†Bristol T.M.—Avonmouth Dock.

^*†Bristol T. M.—Patchway—Pilning.

^*†Bristol T.M.—Clifton Down—Pilning.

†Nottingham Midland—Worksop.

^*†Bristol T.M.—Gloucester Eastgate.

^*†Gloucester—Worcester Shrub Hill.

†Lostwithiel—Fowey.

†Bath Spa—Swindon.

West Drayton Yiewsley—Staines West.

^*|Leeds City and Bradford Forster Square Ilkley—Skipton.
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^*Leeds City and Bradford Forster Square—Keighley—Skipton.

^*Leeds City—Shipley—Bradford Forster Square.

†St. Margarets—Buntingford.

Taunton—Barnstaple.

^*†Blackpool (North)—Wyre Dock—Fleetwood.

†Glazebrook—Stockport Tiviot Dale.

†Walsall—Rugeley Trent Valley.

†Birmingham New Street—Sutton Park—Walsall (via Penns).

†Wolverhampton High Level—Burton-on-Trent.

†Nuneaton Trent Valley—Coventry—Leamington Spa Avenue.

†Ruabon—Barmouth.

†Bala—Bala Junction.

†Whitchurch—Welshpool.

†Llanfyllin—Llanymynech.

†Bangor—Amlwch.

Carmarthen—Aberystwyth.

^*Perth—Blair Atholl—Struan.

Ballinluig—Aberfeldy.

¶Aviemore—Craigellachie/Elgin.

Whitby—Malton.

Whitby—Scarborough.

†Lanark—Muirkirk.

†Newcastle—Newbiggin.

†Newsham—Blyth.

†Monkseaton—Blyth—Newbiggin.

^*†Plymouth—Penzance.

^*†Swindon—Kemble—Gloucester.

^*†Didcot—Swindon.

†Leicester London Road—Burton-on- Trent.

†Kingskerswell Station, Devon.

†Brent Station, Devon.

†Witham—Maldon East.

†Berkeley Road—Lydney Town.

†Harrow and Wealdstone—Belmont.

^*†Taunton—Exeter St. David's.

†Tiverton—Tiverton Junction.

^*†‡Taunton—Weston-super-Mare.

†Widnes Loop.

^*†‡Didcot—Oxford—Leamington Spa.

†Leeds Central—Castleford Central—Pontefract.

^*†‡Cheltenham—Swansea High Street.

^*†Manchester Exchange—Tyldesley—Wigan North Western.

†Leek—Uttoxeter.

†Darlington—Barnard Castle—Middleton in-Teesdale.

†Stations on the Llandudno—Blaenau Ffestiniog line (Glan Conway and Dolgarrog).

†‡Bangor—Afon Wen.

^*^* ^* Aviemore—Inverness—Elgin.

Dalnaspidal Station, Perthshire.

^*Aberdeen—Inverurie.

^*Stations on the Keith Junction—Elgin line (Tauchers, Mulben, Orton, Orbliston and Llanbryde).

†Rossett Station, Denbighshire.

^*†Glasgow Central—Carlisle.

(b) after 16th October, 1964.

^*†‡Shrewsbury—Aberystwyth.

Sunderland—South Shields.

Halwill—Torrington.

^*Stourbridge—Worcester—Hereford.

Station on Edinburgh Princes Street—Glasgow Central (Eglinton Street).

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(F) Proposals to which consent has been refused:

(a) before 16th October, 1964

Cardiff—Coryton.

Kilmarnock—Ayr.

††Inverness—Wick/Thurso (through service and the stations and halts at Dingwall, Invergordon, Fearn, Tain, Bonar Bridge, Culrain, Laing, Rogart, Golspie, Brora, Helmsdale, Kinbrace, Altnabreac, Scotscalder, Georgemas Junction, Wick, Thurso).

††Inverness—Kyle of Lochalsh (through services and the stations and halts at Garve, Lochluichant, Achanalt, Achnasheen, Achnashellach, Strathcarron, Attadale, Strome Ferry, Duirinish, Plockton, Kyle of Lochalsh).

Gowerton North Station, Glam.

Narberth Station, Pembroke.

Lamphey Station, Pembroke.

Clarbeston Road Station, Pembroke.

Bishopbriggs Station, Dunbarton.

Stranraer Town Station, Wigtownshire.

Stranraer Harbour Station, Wigtownshire.

††Ayr—Stranraer.

Manchester Piccadilly—Buxton.

Brent Knoll Station, Somerset.

King's Sutton Station, Northampton.

Caldicot Halt.

††Llandudno—Blaenau Ffestiniog.

Middlesbrough—Whitby.

‡‡Darlington—Bishop Auckland.

^*Newcastle—Riverside—Tynemouth.

Caernarvon station, Caernarvonshire.

Dalwhinnie and Carr Bridge stations (on Dalwhinnie—Aviemore—Inverness line).

(b) after 16th October, 1964.

††Edinburgh Princes Street—Glasgow Central.

Darlington—Richmond.

Caersws station (on Shrewsbury—Aberystwyth line).

Carlisle—Hellifield.

Felixstowe Beach station, Suffolk.

^*Withdrawal of local or stopping service.
†Closure has already taken place.
‡Consent refused to closure of certain stations listed in Section (F).
§Added since publication of the Reshaping Report.
|Proposal for Leeds/Bradford—Ilkley line still under consideration.
¶Proposal for Craigellachie—Elgin/Keith still under consideration.
^*^* Proposal for Aviemore—Forres section still under consideration.
††Consent given to the closure of certain stations listed in Section E.
‡‡Consent given to closure of Bishop Auckland—Crook section.

§ Mr. Carlisle
asked the Minister of Transport whether, in arriving at his decision on the proposed withdrawal of passenger train services between Liverpool, Lime Street and Chester, General, and the discontinuance of all passenger 56W train services between Runcorn and Frodsham, he will take into consideration the existing state of overcrowding and congestion on the A.56 road through Helsby and Frodsham, and the likely future increase in demand for use of these train services by reason of the fact that Runcorn has been designated as a new town; and if he will make a statement.

§ Mr. Tom Fraser
I shall take all relevant matters into account before reaching my decision.