This might be one for the rail fans out there, but could someone tell me why the train station at DTV has been put into its almost closed state ?
I understand that with few passengers, the local train firm no interest in stopping there, but the UK legal procedure for closing part of the railway network means it's simpler to just serve the station once per week and maintain the fantasy that the station remains open and served by trains - i.e. a parliamentary or ghost station.
What puzzles me, is that the station is not a branch line or terminus - even if the station was closed, the trains on the line would still have to go past DTV's train station. I accept that for a train to slow down, stop for a minute and then accelerate again takes a little bit of time and costs a little bit of money in extra fuel used, but are these extra costs really that high ? Why was DTV's train station not turned into a request stop as is the case with some stations in rural parts of Wales and Scotland ?