I noticed one of the justifications for the closures:
"Train companies said that only 12% of tickets were now bought at station kiosks."
A quick Google brought up this:
How many rail tickets are sold each year UK?
In the past year there were 1.4 billion separate rail journeys, so 168 million tickets were bought in ticket offices.12 Jul 2023
That is not an insignificant proportion, the government are right to step in, IMHO.
