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Railway Stations

Debate between Jim Hood and Stephen McPartland
Tuesday 17th April 2012

(12 years, 7 months ago)

Westminster Hall
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Jim Hood Portrait Mr Jim Hood (in the Chair)
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Order. The hon. Lady’s intervention is too long.

Stephen McPartland Portrait Stephen McPartland
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I understand what the hon. Lady is suggesting, and I assure her that we are running a campaign to keep Knebworth station’s ticket office open. I am pleased that First Capital Connect has assured us that it has no plans to close the ticket office. I will refer later to the Government’s Command Paper, “Reforming our Railways”, and to giving more power to train operating companies to keep some stations open.