Egg Centric
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I understand the principle of parliamentary services - keep an old line (or more often part of a line, quite often just a curve or single station) open so as to avoid the expenses involved with closure proceedings.
But what would actually happen if a TOC ignored this? It's my understanding, for example, that there are no Stockport - Staylbridge services running and the world doesn't seem to have exploded. Similarly, even before Covid and its recent closure I think I'm right in saying Newhaven Marine wasn't really served for years; at most a train entered the platform without releasing the doors and more recently not even that.
Is the industry perhaps petrified of legal sanctions that don't actually come? Or is it genuinely playing with fire every time it cancels the service from Reddish South? And if it really is this worried, why so cavalier with the far more important penalty fares regulations as described in the fare sanctions subforum...?
But what would actually happen if a TOC ignored this? It's my understanding, for example, that there are no Stockport - Staylbridge services running and the world doesn't seem to have exploded. Similarly, even before Covid and its recent closure I think I'm right in saying Newhaven Marine wasn't really served for years; at most a train entered the platform without releasing the doors and more recently not even that.
Is the industry perhaps petrified of legal sanctions that don't actually come? Or is it genuinely playing with fire every time it cancels the service from Reddish South? And if it really is this worried, why so cavalier with the far more important penalty fares regulations as described in the fare sanctions subforum...?
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