Parliamentary Train
Parliamentary trains are passenger services that were, by an 1844 Act of Parliament, intended to afford cheap and basic rail travel for the less-affluent travellers of the 19th century. The legislation applied to each and every railway route in the United Kingdom, and required that at least one such service per day was run on any given route.
In recent years the term has been adopted by rail enthusiasts to apply to the situation where a minimal train service runs to avoid closing the route or station. Such services are also known as ghost trains.
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