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ELL Stock in Place
On Feb 6, 12:30*pm, MIG wrote: On 23 Jan, 19:58, Arthur Figgis wrote: On 22/01/2010 02:30, Mizter T wrote: * (And West Croydon will be - actually, already is - a LondonOverground managed station, so there's perhaps a bit more likelihood that they'd ensure it's a pleasant enough place to wait for, say, eight minutes.) Well, it has gained a coffee shop in the past year or so, and they even fixed the leaking roof on platform 4. Ideally they would give up on it and start again with a new station, this time providing integration with the tram stop and bus station, some bogs, step-free access, more seats, etc. As an aside from this, it has often been commented how useless it can be to clutter announcements with TOC names, but with LO supposedly managing the stations, this has been doubled up: "Southern Railway on behalf of London Overground ..." now preceding announcements (probably useless anyway, to do with personal possessions). The main change at Brockley is that the accessible side exit from the down platform (which has an Oyster pad) is now locked quite early in the evening, forcing crowds of people to go up the stairs to the bridge, where they are then trapped as they queue for a single barrier. *I doubt if it's healthy and safe. Bah, humbug. |
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ELL Stock in Place
On 6 Feb, 13:35, Mizter T wrote:
On Feb 6, 12:30*pm, MIG wrote: On 23 Jan, 19:58, Arthur Figgis wrote: On 22/01/2010 02:30, Mizter T wrote: * (And West Croydon will be - actually, already is - a LondonOverground managed station, so there's perhaps a bit more likelihood that they'd ensure it's a pleasant enough place to wait for, say, eight minutes..) Well, it has gained a coffee shop in the past year or so, and they even fixed the leaking roof on platform 4. Ideally they would give up on it and start again with a new station, this time providing integration with the tram stop and bus station, some bogs, step-free access, more seats, etc. As an aside from this, it has often been commented how useless it can be to clutter announcements with TOC names, but with LO supposedly managing the stations, this has been doubled up: "Southern Railway on behalf of London Overground ..." now preceding announcements (probably useless anyway, to do with personal possessions). The main change at Brockley is that the accessible side exit from the down platform (which has an Oyster pad) is now locked quite early in the evening, forcing crowds of people to go up the stairs to the bridge, where they are then trapped as they queue for a single barrier. *I doubt if it's healthy and safe. Bah, humbug. I'm not saying that I'm definitely planning to cancel Christmas over this, but it is the opposite of what we'd expect from improved accessibility with LO. Providing a lift that one or two people can use at a time doesn't really justify sending a couple of hundred people up the stairs when they used to use a side gate. |
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