
What Are the Railways For?
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The Rise of Leisure Travel on the Hebden Bridge Line
Leisure travel on the Hebden Bridge line is 40% up on the pre-pandemic level. Transport Focus Chief Executive Anthony Smith: 'There's some real opportunities to be grasped here if the industry can be more flexible' The balance has changed on the railway, so there's more leisure travel now than there is commuting. But the railway is capable of adapting to that, just as it adapted to both world wars and mass car ownership in the 50s.
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