Unfortunately those representations were of no avail, and the branch line has been closed.
Fortunately that happens to be a branch line on which there are rarely any trains, otherwise the obstruction would be intolerable.
The idea that a service on a branch line can be withdrawn without co-operation from a bus company is very much exaggerated.
I hope that we can continue to keep that branch line open.
Therefore, threats to the branch line railways, threats to rural bus services, to rural road development programmes, are all threats to rural communities.
I was even pleased to hear him put in a plea, during his own speech, for his own local branch line.
I must also point out that this is a trunk route; not a branch line.
A small gauge railway ran along the west coast and there was also a short branch line of some 20 miles.
