Train

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00:00Denton Railway Station, outside Manchester, it's a station where one train stops once a week.

00:06It is the least busy railway station in the country. Do you know how many people visited the station last year?

00:1164.

00:1254?

00:13So they've got one train a week? Yeah.

00:15What are they complaining about?

00:18Why don't people use Denton Station, do you think?

00:20I mean, this train is not a crowded train.

00:22It's not a crowded train.

00:23So why would you not use it?

00:25Yeah, I would take advantage of that. I'm sick of being stood up like that for two and a half hours.

00:29Well, don't do it.

00:30Well, I really don't.

00:31Perhaps we ought to hear from the locals.

00:35Yeah, they say from the locals, yeah.

00:36BBC Radio reporter Katie Hazelby went and asked some local people.

00:40Shall we listen to that?

00:41So I'm going to go and ask them, have they ever caught a train from Denton Station?

00:46Have you ever used it?

00:47I haven't, no, because I live in Hyde.

00:50Right.

00:51I've been told it runs once a week, but I honestly don't know what time.

00:55So what's the point of having that station there?

00:58I honestly don't know, unless I don't even know where the train runs to.

01:03Does it go to Manchester?

01:05I think it goes to Staley Bridge.

01:07Oh right, that's probably why then.

01:09Do you know where the technical term...

01:14Do you know where the technical term...