Personally I am disgusted another station is closing. We should be adding more stations not removing them I blame the government and Scotrail. Stirling trains will soon skip Polmont next month. I fear we are going back to the Beeching rail cuts.
Personally I am disgusted another station is closing. We should be adding more stations not removing them I blame the government and Scotrail. Stirling trains will soon skip Polmont next month. I fear we are going back to the Beeching rail cuts.
Personally I am disgusted another station is closing. We should be adding more stations not removing them I blame the government and Scotrail..
Because if they think they can close one station you can be assured more will come and they will only keep profitable ones open. We have seen this happen with buses over recent years places being cut off.
Another? You make it sound like they are a dime a dozen. What was the last proper closure (as opposed to resiting like Rochester and Bromsgrove)? Probably Norton Bridge in 2004 (correct me if I'm wrong). How many new and reopened stations have we had in recent years?Personally I am disgusted another station is closing.
What on earth are you on about? It's having it's services suspended until such time when it would be possible to reopen it, aka when the site gets redeveloped into housing or another business estate. It has also been closed at the request of the police to try and prevent crime taking place on what remains of the site. In fact if the police didn't get involved, ScotRail would probably still be serving there, oblivious to the fact that it's serving nothing.Because if they think they can close one station you can be assured more will come and they will only keep profitable ones open. We have seen this happen with buses over recent years places being cut off.
What on earth are you on about? It's having it's services suspended until such time when it would be possible to reopen it, aka when the site gets redeveloped into housing or another business estate. It has also been closed at the request of the police to try and prevent crime taking place on what remains of the site. In fact if the police didn't get involved, ScotRail would probably still be serving there, oblivious to the fact that it's serving nothing.
I am pretty sure they are not closing this station. It’s just not being used until such time as there is a market. That’s what normal businesses do. You don’t market a product nobody wants.
We don't know the exact legal situation but there seems a general consensus that there is something special here that allows the operators to suspend services. It’s probably not going through formal statutory closure procedures because it isn’t a normal station and because it’s not being closed either.
I get no sense that the Scottish Government or rail companies want to close lots of stations. The Scottish Government have recently been looking at proposals to re-open a number of lines and stations. They just don’t want to waste time and money having trains calling at this one at the moment, because nobody is using it. (And that aspect doesn’t appear to be in dispute). I commend them for their common sense.
What on earth are you on about? It's having it's services suspended until such time when it would be possible to reopen it, aka when the site gets redeveloped into housing or another business estate. It has also been closed at the request of the police to try and prevent crime taking place on what remains of the site. In fact if the police didn't get involved, ScotRail would probably still be serving there, oblivious to the fact that it's serving nothing.
This article says it was the local population who initially requested services to IBM Halt were suspended.
This article says it was the local population who initially requested services to IBM Halt were suspended.
What was the last proper closure (as opposed to resiting like Rochester and Bromsgrove)? Probably Norton Bridge in 2004 (correct me if I'm wrong).
Services are being suspended until such time it is viable to re-open because of the crime taking place on the site and the fact it's not useful to anyone.This doesn't make sense, as surely having no services did mean the station is closed, as that is why tickets to Wedgwood are accepted on a bus service, so the station isn't closed.
This doesn't make sense, as surely having no services did mean the station is closed, as that is why tickets to Wedgwood are accepted on a bus service, so the station isn't closed.
Personally I am disgusted another station is closing. We should be adding more stations not removing them I blame the government and Scotrail. Stirling trains will soon skip Polmont next month. I fear we are going back to the Beeching rail cuts.
The last attempt at closing a station - Breich, used by just 48 people last year, resulted in a decision to spend two million quid of taxpayers' money on a rebuild! Personally, I think that's disgusting. Yes, I'm pro-rail, but in a world of limited resources, we should spend the cash where it's useful. IBM station has no current legitimate uses, there's no housing nearby, and it's fuelling anti-social behaviour and crime.
Quite. A better way (involving obscure stations) to spend that £2m would have been, for instance, to close Breich and open a station at Halkirk on the Far North - a settlement that has inexplicably not had one for a long time when the nearby non-stations still exist, and all it'd need would be a short platform with a bench and a bus shelter so probably come in at that price.
I'm pretty sure the police & local residents are disgusted that a useless station is helping fuel anti-social behaviour in the local area.Personally I am disgusted another station is closing.
Absolutely, it's insane that Altnabreac has a station and Halkirk doesn't. I live in Winchburgh, and a station there would get significant use, far more than Breich will ever get. We've been promised one, but there's no sign of it yet, and we've just had the frequency of our buses to Edinburgh halved.
That said, I love the fact that Altnabreac station still exists, and the time I spent exploring the area around it ten years ago was fascinating, even though there's literally nothing there.
Altnabreac serves more than IBM does, there's the station house, assuming someone lives there at the moment.
There also isn't an antisocial behaviour problem, other than by errant deer
What was the last proper closure (as opposed to resiting like Rochester and Bromsgrove)? Probably Norton Bridge in 2004 (correct me if I'm wrong). How many new and reopened stations have we had in recent years?
There is one building still standing. It's structurally sound (I assume, otherwise it would have been pulled down).I'm by no means saying that a service is justified, but what exactly is it that these alleged rampaging gangs of yobs are vandalising? According to the posters on this thread who've been to have a look, there's nothing there any more.
Anybody who has to commute on a regular basis will know the pain of cancelled services and unreliable timetables all too well.
Wouldn't it be great if the services would revolve around our lives and turn up exactly when we need them to?
So you can just imagine the groans and despairs from commuters when the Hokkaido Railway Company announced it was going to close down a rural station in the north of Japan.
Well, not quite. It turned out the remote station was being used by only one person each day.
Every school day at 7.04am, a girl would hop on the train at Kami-Shirataki station, then at 5.08pm she would return again.
After the railway company discovered the identity of the station's only customer, it did something amazing.
Rather than press ahead with the closure, Hokkaido decided it would keep the station open until the girl graduates from high school.