Complex sentence: He claimed that almost £50,000 had been saved in the closure, and that an average of less than three passengers had joined or alighted at each of the eleven stations and made it clear that there was little or no chance of the service reopening.
Split into simpler sentences: He claimed that almost £50,000 had been saved in the closure, and that an average of less than three passengers had joined or alighted at each of the eleven stations. He made it clear that there was little chance of the service reopening.