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"David Cantrell" wrote in message ... On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:32:46AM +0000, d wrote: Can anyone think of any tube stations where the platforms lead directly out onto the street without any lifts/steps/escalators? The only ones I can think of are Woodside Park, Epping and Kew Gardens. I'm sure there must be lots more that I've not been to. Olympia is certainly stepless from the District line and the northbound Overground, I think it's also stepless from the southbound platform too. Sudbury Town. michael adams .... -- David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age Planckton: n, the smallest possible living thing |
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"michael adams" wrote in message ... "David Cantrell" wrote in message ... On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:32:46AM +0000, d wrote: Can anyone think of any tube stations where the platforms lead directly out onto the street without any lifts/steps/escalators? The only ones I can think of are Woodside Park, Epping and Kew Gardens. I'm sure there must be lots more that I've not been to. Olympia is certainly stepless from the District line and the northbound Overground, I think it's also stepless from the southbound platform too. Sudbury Town. Another is Uxbridge. Sudbury Town has a gateline to each platform leading directly from the street\alleyway while at Uxbridge being a terminus the gateline is at the end of all the platforms. There are others such as North Ealing and North Acton with a street\alleyway level gateline to one platform but where access to the other platform is by means of a footbridge. michael adams ... -- David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age Planckton: n, the smallest possible living thing |
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"michael adams" wrote in message ... "michael adams" wrote in message ... "David Cantrell" wrote in message ... On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:32:46AM +0000, d wrote: Can anyone think of any tube stations where the platforms lead directly out onto the street without any lifts/steps/escalators? The only ones I can think of are Woodside Park, Epping and Kew Gardens. I'm sure there must be lots more that I've not been to. Olympia is certainly stepless from the District line and the northbound Overground, I think it's also stepless from the southbound platform too. Sudbury Town. Another is Uxbridge. Sudbury Town has a gateline to each platform leading directly from the street\alleyway while at Uxbridge being a terminus the gateline is at the end of all the platforms. There are others such as North Ealing and North Acton with a street\alleyway level gateline to one platform but where access to the other platform is by means of a footbridge. There's a map and accompanying details here. http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloa...-guide-map.pdf According to the map neither North Acton nor North Ealing qualify in any respect. Maybe on account of the footbridge access to one platform; or because my memeory is playing me tricks; or because of rebuilding or remodelling in the last few years. michael adams ... -- David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age Planckton: n, the smallest possible living thing |
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michael adams wrote on 13 August 2010 19:34:24 ...
"michael wrote in message ... "michael wrote in message ... "David wrote in message ... On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:32:46AM +0000, d wrote: Can anyone think of any tube stations where the platforms lead directly out onto the street without any lifts/steps/escalators? The only ones I can think of are Woodside Park, Epping and Kew Gardens. I'm sure there must be lots more that I've not been to. Olympia is certainly stepless from the District line and the northbound Overground, I think it's also stepless from the southbound platform too. Sudbury Town. Another is Uxbridge. Sudbury Town has a gateline to each platform leading directly from the street\alleyway while at Uxbridge being a terminus the gateline is at the end of all the platforms. There are others such as North Ealing and North Acton with a street\alleyway level gateline to one platform but where access to the other platform is by means of a footbridge. There's a map and accompanying details here. http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloa...-guide-map.pdf According to the map neither North Acton nor North Ealing qualify in any respect. Maybe on account of the footbridge access to one platform; or because my memeory is playing me tricks; or because of rebuilding or remodelling in the last few years. The Central Line at North Acton is in quite a deep cutting. According to an old accessibility spreadsheet that I acquired years ago, there are at least 26 steps down to each platform. North Ealing is shown as level access to the ticket hall, then 14 steps down to the westbound platform, which is the one you don't need the footbridge for. -- Richard J. (to email me, swap 'uk' and 'yon' in address) |
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"Richard J." wrote in message news:63k9o.4272$ex1.2161@hurricane... michael adams wrote on 13 August 2010 19:34:24 ... "michael wrote in message ... "michael wrote in message ... "David wrote in message ... On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:32:46AM +0000, d wrote: Can anyone think of any tube stations where the platforms lead directly out onto the street without any lifts/steps/escalators? The only ones I can think of are Woodside Park, Epping and Kew Gardens. I'm sure there must be lots more that I've not been to. Olympia is certainly stepless from the District line and the northbound Overground, I think it's also stepless from the southbound platform too. Sudbury Town. Another is Uxbridge. Sudbury Town has a gateline to each platform leading directly from the street\alleyway while at Uxbridge being a terminus the gateline is at the end of all the platforms. There are others such as North Ealing and North Acton with a street\alleyway level gateline to one platform but where access to the other platform is by means of a footbridge. There's a map and accompanying details here. http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloa...-guide-map.pdf According to the map neither North Acton nor North Ealing qualify in any respect. Maybe on account of the footbridge access to one platform; or because my memeory is playing me tricks; or because of rebuilding or remodelling in the last few years. The Central Line at North Acton is in quite a deep cutting. According to an old accessibility spreadsheet that I acquired years ago, there are at least 26 steps down to each platform. From about 20 years ago can I only remember two steep alleys from either end of Victoria Road both leading down to the station and the westbound platform but no steps. There was no outside access to the eastbound platform as the main freight line ran directly behind it. However having wiki'd it, seems there were and are stairs between the booking hall at the bottom of the slope, and the platform, which I totally forgot. Plus the station has now been remodelled with an extra platform. The former eastbound platform now being an island platform. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Acton_tube_station North Ealing is shown as level access to the ticket hall, then 14 steps down to the westbound platform, which is the one you don't need the footbridge for. Correct. And that howler was only from a couple of years ago. It's maybe just as well I haven't been called to give evidence in any murder trials michael adams .... -- Richard J. (to email me, swap 'uk' and 'yon' in address) |
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On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 04:06:52AM -0700, Mizter T wrote:
On Aug 13, 11:45=A0am, David Cantrell wrote: Olympia is certainly stepless from the District line and the northbound Overground, I think it's also stepless from the southbound platform too. It is, yes. Long way round on street to change platforms though! Incidentally, London Overground advertise Clapham Junction as having step-free access to the street. Never mind that their trains ain't exactly at platform level, *none* of the platforms have step-free access to the street. And even when all the lifts from platform to bridge are commissioned, there's still not been any work that I can see on having an exit from the bridge to St John's Hill. And even when that has been done, there's still no lift for platform 17, which LO occasionally use. -- David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice fdisk format reinstall, doo-dah, doo-dah; fdisk format reinstall, it's the Windows way |
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In message , David
Cantrell writes Incidentally, London Overground advertise Clapham Junction as having step-free access to the street. Never mind that their trains ain't exactly at platform level, *none* of the platforms have step-free access to the street. And even when all the lifts from platform to bridge are commissioned, there's still not been any work that I can see on having an exit from the bridge to St John's Hill. And even when that has been done, there's still no lift for platform 17, which LO occasionally use. I guess it's possible that the step-free reference refers to the stair-creepers for wheelchairs on the steps down to street level. But they're hugely inconvenient (National Rail recommend adding an hour if using them for an interchange!) and are of no help for non-wheelchair users with mobility problems. -- Paul Terry |
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On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:48:26PM +0100, Paul Terry wrote:
I guess it's possible that the step-free reference refers to the stair-creepers for wheelchairs on the steps down to street level. But they're hugely inconvenient (National Rail recommend adding an hour if using them for an interchange!) and are of no help for non-wheelchair users with mobility problems. What are these "stair creepers"? Is this something like a portable stair lift that they install when needed? -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david You can't spell AWESOME without ME! |
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"David Cantrell" wrote in message k... On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:48:26PM +0100, Paul Terry wrote: I guess it's possible that the step-free reference refers to the stair-creepers for wheelchairs on the steps down to street level. But they're hugely inconvenient (National Rail recommend adding an hour if using them for an interchange!) and are of no help for non-wheelchair users with mobility problems. What are these "stair creepers"? Is this something like a portable stair lift that they install when needed? Is this the sort of thing? 'Creepers' seems a less used term than 'climbers'. http://www.mobilitystairclimbers.co.uk/ Paul S |
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