 From a very low base, the GWR tried to encourage traffic in the thinly populated area; the opening of a new halt at Crossways in April 1929 to encourage traffic can hardly have done much to affect the losses.The weekday passenger train service had long been four trains each way, although this was reduced to three during World War II.Nationalisation of the railways took place in 1948; there were four daily passenger trains once again, but inevitably the new owner, "British Railways", considered the carryings on the line.