Cutting them. The govt has nearly only focused on high speed inter city trains. Some regional commuter ones.

All the trains that served rural people have pretty much died and been replaced by the car.

Dut to individual cars becoming the norm

Probably also due to new bus lines replacing smaller train lines and/or driving passengers to/from the remaining bigger train stations of the lines instead. I guess bus service had lower maintenance and operational costs while being more flexible than a small train or tram.