Lea Bridge station covered footbridge
 

The new edition of Modern Railways shows that the footbridge being built
at the soon-to-reopen station is covered. Is it a new standard that all
footbridges have to be covered? Since the platforms appear to be mostly
uncovered, in bad weather people will crowd on the footbridge while they
are waiting for trains and then sprint down the stairs when the train
arrives, so it seems dangerous as well as being an unnecessary expense
if the bulk of the platforms are not going to be covered as well.

Lea Bridge station covered footbridge
 

Basil Jet wrote:

The new edition of Modern Railways shows that the footbridge being built
at the soon-to-reopen station is covered. Is it a new standard that all
footbridges have to be covered? Since the platforms appear to be mostly
uncovered, in bad weather people will crowd on the footbridge while they
are waiting for trains and then sprint down the stairs when the train
arrives, so it seems dangerous as well as being an unnecessary expense
if the bulk of the platforms are not going to be covered as well.


The footbridge linking platforms 1 and 2 at Shipley, West Yorkshire, built
some time ago, is uncovered, and wasn't covered over when lifts connected
to it were installed a few years ago. But the newer bridge linking
platforms 3 and 4, built at the same time as the lift installation, is
covered. So perhaps you are right about this being a new standard.

--
Jeremy Double

You're assuming that large numbers of people will use this
re-opened station. I don't assume that.

Lea Bridge station covered footbridge
 

On 27/02/2016 22:49, Basil Jet wrote:

The new edition of Modern Railways shows that the footbridge being built
at the soon-to-reopen station is covered. Is it a new standard that all
footbridges have to be covered? Since the platforms appear to be mostly
uncovered, in bad weather people will crowd on the footbridge while they
are waiting for trains and then sprint down the stairs when the train
arrives, so it seems dangerous as well as being an unnecessary expense
if the bulk of the platforms are not going to be covered as well.

I'd suspect that is to stop:
People throwing themselves off
People throwing objects off, or dangle things over
Risks of slips when wet.
Isn't one of issues on GWML that parapets on bridges now have to be even
higher?

I thought most HSE stuff had counter issues?

We now protect children from so many risks, that they cannot properly
evaluate such things as adults (or even as professionals in the field!)

Jim
(who fell out of trees and crashed bike into nettles as a child, and
rock-climbed and driven a car on glazed ice as an adult!)