A demonstration is being held at Penzance Train Station today (Wednesday) against plans to close the ticket office.

The Save Our Ticket Office protest is being staged from 9am onwards and will be attended by RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch.

The ticket offices at Penzance and St Erth train stations are among many that are earmarked to shut around the country with many arguing the closure of the ticket office would be discriminatory to the elderly and the disabled.

The potential ticket office closures follow the launch of a public consultation on how tickets are sold at stations in the future.  

Subject to consultation, the proposal is that ticket office staff would transition to multi-skilled roles. This would, according to Great Western Railway, allow staff to help more customers with a wider range of issues, including helping them to buy tickets, wherever they are on the station. 

This will, however, mean changes to how station teams are organised, and some ticket offices will close as the new roles are introduced. 

More than 100 people staged a protest against plans to close the ticket office at Penzance Train Station on Tuesday, July 11.