Campaigners will be protesting in Telford tomorrow against the closure of two railway station ticket offices.
The protest will take place at Wellington Railway StationIt comes as a consultation on proposals to close ticket offices across the country, including at Telford Central and Wellington Railway Station, closes on September 1.
A spokesman for the RMT said:"Closing our ticket office will make our train station less safe, less secure and less accessible. Closing ticket offices will put 2,300 jobs at risk. We cannot allow people to lose their livelihoods for 'modernisation'. "We are urging people to come along to Wellington ticket office to show that we support our ticket office staff, and customers with additional needs, and that Wellington says: save our ticket office."Mark Webster, disability spokesman for the borough's Green Party, said:"We are determined to stand up for the rights of the most vulnerable in our society.
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