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Whenever ghost trains and ghost buses come in the news, I am reminded of the court case in Scotland about the Fort William sleeper, in which a Scottish judge held that a ghost train was not sufficient to avoid the need for a closure process … but I never get very far in researching it further. One of these days, I must.
It occurs to me that parliamentary services defeat the object of having closure procedures in the first place.
@Ronnie MB
It might be somewhere in the legislation (I’ve no idea where) that a ‘regular service’ is at minimum weekly, hence running one train once a week satisfies the ‘regular service’ threshold.
I seem to recollect that it’s in the Railways Act 1993, S. 40, as repealed and restated in the Railways Act 2005