More than 680,000 responses had been submitted to the session, which ended on September 1.
Mr Lynch advised the Commons’ Transport Select Committee: “We think the whole thing has been a sham designed to be rammed through while people were looking the other way.
“It all goes back to the Secretary of State (Mark Harper).
“The Secretary of State initiated these changes through the contracts he has with the TOCs (train operating companies).
“He directs everything they do these days, every letter that’s sent, he gets access to.
“Of course, if the watchdogs object (to the closures) on the limited basis they’re allowed to, the decision will end up with him as well.
“It’s a controlled show.
“The whole thing is designed so that they can force this through in a way that they want.”
Katie Pennick, campaigns and communications supervisor at charity Transport for All, mentioned many individuals “have not had a fair opportunity” to touch upon the proposals.
She advised the listening to that many operators didn’t make session paperwork obtainable in accessible codecs similar to braille or British Sign Language.
Ms Pennick mentioned: “Any consultation, but especially one on proposals that will disproportionately impact disabled people, is rendered useless if it’s not accessible to the very people who will be impacted.”
She added: “I’m really disappointed to see the opaqueness of these consultation documents and the number of misleading statements there were in the documents, particularly around staffing.”
Mr Lynch described claims by operators that ticket workplace workers might be redeployed onto station concourses and platforms as “nonsense”.
He mentioned: “They’re not taking them out of the ticket office to work on the platforms. They’re taking them out of the ticket office to make cuts, to cut the jobs out of the system.”
Mr Lynch added that workers “will not be there” at off-peak intervals, and folks travelling then “will be left to fend for themselves”.
Christopher Brooks, head of coverage at charity Age UK , advised the committee there’s a “lack of understanding” about how tough it’s for people who find themselves not web customers to purchase tickets from machines at stations.
He mentioned: “It is extremely difficult to expect someone to use a TVM (ticket vending machine) and be able to use the interface, however intuitive some tech savvy designer thinks it is.
“It is very, very difficult, probably impossible, for many, many people who are offline.
“Over a fifth of over-65s are not internet users so to expect people to go into the station and do that is an extremely tall order.”
He added: “There’s a significant number of people, millions of pensioners, who will find it very, very difficult if we go down a more automated route.
“It will obviously have the impact that it will put some people off travelling altogether.”
