The Anonymous Widower

Grays Station To Go Step-Free

This document on the Government web site is entitled Access for All: 73 Stations Set To Benefit From Additional Funding.

Grays station is on the list.

These pictures show the station.

Note.

1. The stopping trains from London arrive in a long bay platform 3.
2. There are exits on both sides of the tracks.
3. There is a subway under the tracks.
4. There is a bridge over the tracks outside the station.
5. The station only handles four trains per hour in both directions.

This Google Map shows the layout of the station.

Note that the main platforms can take twelve-car trains.

Installing Step-Free Access

According to a station guy, it will not be easy to add lifts to the subway and a step-free bridge will be installed.

• The subway is narrow and two wheelchairs probably couldn’t pass.
• There also appears to be enough space for a bridge.
• The bridge could probably be placed either side of the main station building.

In Winner Announced In The Network Rail Footbridge Design Ideas Competition, I wrote how the competition was won by this bridge.

So could a factory-built bridge like this be installed at Grays station?

Installing such a bridge, would not need the subway to be closed, so overall the station could handle more passengers needing to cross the tracks.

This would not appear to be the most difficult of installations.

April 9, 2019 - Posted by AnonW | Transport/Travel | CP6 Funding For Step-Free Access, Grays Station, Network Rail/RIBA Footbridge Design Competition, Step-Free