Nicola Shaw’s review,published next week, looks set to shake up the structure of railway ownership and bring back the privatisation v nationalisation debateThe man charged with being the voice of rail passengers is peering over a locked gate to an empty platform at Alton station in Hampshire, and now the cessation of the department line.
In the 1970s,the track onwards to Winchester was deemed surplus to requirements and closed by British Rail; today, when the industry is clamouring for more capacity, or that track and platform is used for a steam heritage railway,the Watercress Line.
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Source: theguardian.com