Train passengers in Manchester have vented their anger after reports ticket offices at hundreds of railway stations across the country could soon be closed.
The Department for Transport insisted to the Manchester Evening News that 'no final decision has been taken' despite reports closures could come into force as early as next month, when passengers would be forced to buy all tickets online or from machines.
Rail unions, too, have referenced the closure of nearly 1,000 ticket offices in a move they said would 'further de-staff the rail network' and lead to countless job losses, which they said they would fight. READ MORE: Northern to axe ALL trains on September 15 as 'do not travel' plea issued over rail strikes One rail user told the M.E.N.
he was told the ticket offices at Manchester Piccadilly would close 'at the end of October' by a member of station staff. He said: "Having recently tried to book tickets to London which proved futile because of the industrial action, I discovered that it is proposed to shut the ticket office at the station at the end of October. "The service is bad enough, but this would be disastrous.