Delegates at the Edinburgh conference endorsed an emergency call to campaign alongside passengers to resist the 240-plus threatened job cuts, and welcomed an early-day motion against the closures tabled in parliament by John McDonnell MP.

“These threatened closures represent a dangerous attack on station staffing and we are asking passengers to fight alongside Tube workers to ensure that they are not allowed to take place,” RMT General Secretary Bob Crow said today.

“No Tube booking office will be safe if LUL is allowed to get away with this round of cuts, and delegates at our conference have voted unanimously to support a campaign of industrial action against them.

“Our conference made it clear that Tube workers will not tolerate the increase in ticket disputes, assaults stress and lone working that these cuts would bring about.

“Like passengers, Tube and rail workers want to see more visible, trained staff on stations, not fewer, and if LUL presses ahead with its planned cuts it will have a fight on its hands,” Bob Crow said.

Early Day Motion 1706 and the full list of ticket offices under threat follow:

EDM 1706:

Ticket office closures on the London Underground (
Tabled by John McDonnell and signed by 30 others as at June 27

That this House is alarmed that London Underground intends to close 40 ticket offices and drastically to reduce the opening hours of dozens of more ticket offices; notes the concerns expressed by passenger groups and trade unions at the proposals; is further concerned that the closures will remove an essential service to passengers, make passengers feel more vulnerable and lead to increased assaults on staff; believes that the proposals are ill-thought out; and therefore urges Transport for London to withdraw these unnecessary and dangerous cuts."

The ticket offices threatened with closure are:
Barkingside, Becontree, Boston Manor, Buckhurst Hill, Cannon Street, Canons Park, Chesham, Chiswick Park, Chorleywood, Croxley, Debden, East Putney, Fairlop, Hornchurch, Goldhawk Road, Ickenham, Latimer Road, Mansion House, Mill Hill East, Moor Park, North Ealing, North Harrow, Northwood Hills, Park Royal, Perivale, Ravenscourt Park, Regents Park, Royal Oak, Ruislip, Ruislip Gardens, South Ruislip, Sudbury Hill, Temple, Totteridge & Wealdstone, Upney, West Acton, West Finchley, West Harrow, West Ruislip and Wimbledon Park.

In addition, LUL also proposes to shut Canary Wharf (East), Seven Sisters (B) Southwark (West) and Waterloo (International) ticket offices.

Further planned cuts include the following ticket offices:

Oxford Circus (Argyll Street) to close, Hainault to close weekends, Wanstead to close weekends, Waterloo (Shell) to close on Saturdays, Mornington Crescent to close weekends, Goodge Street to close weekends, Alperton to close on Sundays, South Harrow to close weekends, Sudbury Town to close weekends, Barbican to close Sundays, Moorgate (main) to close Saturdays, Shepherds Bush (H&C) to close Sundays, Westbourne Park to close weekends, Dagenham East to close weekends, Dagenham Heathway to close on Sundays, Elm Park to close weekends, Bow Road to close weekends, Bromley By Bow to close weekends, Baker Street (Met) to close Sundays, Euston Square to close Sundays, Great Portland Street to close Sundays, Eastcote to close Sundays, Hillingdon to close Sundays, Northwick Park to close Sundays, Ruislip Manor to close Sundays, Chalfont & Latimer to close Weekends, Northwood to close on Sundays, Pinner to close on Sundays, Rickmansworth to close on Sundays and Watford to close on Sundays.

Other major hours reductions include:

Lambeth North to lose window service between 1430-1630 Mon to Fri, Warwick Avenue 1400-1700 M-F, Epping 1600-1900 M-F, Loughton 1200-1500 M-F, South Woodford 1330-1630 M-F, Woodford 1330-1630 M-F, Waterloo( Shell) 1000-1400 M-F, Dollis Hill 1330-1600 M-F, Mornington Crescent 1100-1630 M-F, Tufnell Park 1400-1700 M-F, High Barnet 1330-1600 M-F, Kennington 1400-1630, Bow Road 1000-1600 M-F

In addition, LUL wants to remove the current afternoon peak window service from the following stations: Hainault, Redbridge, Snaresbrook Wanstead, Woodside Park, South Harrow, Cockfosters, Westbourne Park, Dagenham East, Hillingdon, Ruislip Manor, Northwood, Pinner, Rickmansworth, and Watford.