Tories' attack on the elderly, disabled and vulnerable travelers from Berwick, Alnmouth and Morpeth can be helped by the Unitary County Council?

The disgraceful austerity slashback from the conservative government in power to close all railway station ticket offices is predicted by rail experts to be very damaging to the most vulnerable in society. 

The travelling public who are not fully computer savvy in order to buy their tickets need to feel confident when forking out large sums of their meager incomes or pensions (which are possibly damaged through the governments dreadful economic crisis) to travel to relatives or for medical treatment etc. The usually warm and helpful face behind the glass screen at their local ticket office puts most service users at their ease and are ever so helpful if people need the answers surrounding onward journeys from terminus stations or arrival times to make appointments.

The changes fully exclude anyone who needs to pay for rail tickets using cash they have saved to cover the cost of their journeys. The loss of the ticket offices denies those people the opportunity to travel safely and in comfort by train giving them a tough time to get to their destinations by other forms of public transport.

For the market towns of Morpeth and Berwick incoming visitors will become ever more limited which will affect businesses who need train travelers to bolster the local trade. But in Northumberland the all purpose unitary council could help enormously by taking over the service on behalf of residents.

The council may have made unlawful and illegal decisions in business previously but acting as a travel agent at a time when its own government is attempting to offload the service should be simply legalised through the government's various business departments.

Will they help? Let's see, or is the wind from the council leader all smoke and mirrors?

https://www.northumberland.gov.uk/News/2023/Jul/Leader-s-concern-at-ticket-office-plans.aspx