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On May 27, 12:37*pm, wrote:

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I need to travel on 1st train on Sunday Morning from Wembley Park
to Chesham Station. Do these stations have the new Bicycle Friendly
barriers, or do they have the old style barriers that have to be
opened by a member of staff?

If you are worried that there may not be staff to open barriers at
that time, my understanding is that barriers have to be left in a
locked-open state if there is no member of staff on duty to open
them manually.

The gates are unlocked rather than open at East Putney when there is
no member of staff supervising them in person. I was just told to
push it.
There are staff within the station if anyone using a gate needs
assistance but they are not immediately to hand.

(Just to be clear, Colin is referring to the manual side gates here.)

This arrangement seems to be fairly common - I've seen it at a number
of other stations too. The staff are close nearby, but as you say "not
immediately to hand" i.e. out on the gateline or supervising the
gateline from the immediately adjacent open ticket office (where they
can 'buzz open' a manual gate from). Sometimes staff seem to be just
behind the blind in the closed ticket office though.

So if there's no-one immediately to hand try the manual side gate and
you'll almost certainly find it unlocked (it's on springs so always
swings back closed again after being opened).

I think they are somewhere else at East Putney. There is a room by the
bottom of the stairs to the platforms which always seems to be busy.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Paul Terry wrote:
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I need to travel on 1st train on Sunday Morning from Wembley Park to
Chesham Station. Do these stations have the new Bicycle Friendly
barriers, or do they have the old style barriers that have to be
opened by a member of staff?

If you are worried that there may not be staff to open barriers at that
time, my understanding is that barriers have to be left in a locked-open
state if there is no member of staff on duty to open them manually.


Having used Chesham many times, I can confirm that is the case.

Whenever the member of staff takes a lunch break, or a comfort break,
the wide gate is first locked in the open position.

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Paul Terry wrote:
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" writes

I need to travel on 1st train on Sunday Morning from Wembley Park to
Chesham Station. Do these stations have the new Bicycle Friendly
barriers, or do they have the old style barriers that have to be
opened by a member of staff?

If you are worried that there may not be staff to open barriers at that
time, my understanding is that barriers have to be left in a locked-open
state if there is no member of staff on duty to open them manually.


Having used Chesham many times, I can confirm that is the case.

Whenever the member of staff takes a lunch break, or a comfort break,
the wide gate is first locked in the open position.


Out of interest what time is the first train?

On May 28, 7:29*pm, wrote:

Out of interest what time is the first train?

The TfL Journey Planner can tell you that:
http://journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk/

Either do a straightforward query or click on the "Timetables" link on
the right hand side to see Tube timetables by line or station.