Manchester Piccadilly Through Platforms Become ‘A Station Within A Station’
The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on Railway Gazette.
This was the introductory paragraph.
Following what Network Rail describes as ‘a major rethink’, the two through platforms at Manchester Piccadilly which handle up to 14 trains/h are to be managed independently from the rest of the station.
Measures to be taken include.
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- A dedicated Customer Service team.
- Better customer information screens.
- An improved satellite lounge with lots of facilities.
- Platforms will be fitted with windbreaks.
- Improved train stopping procedures to cut train dwell times.
Network Rail is also going to run a design contest to see if anybody has any other ideas.
I shall be interested to see how this works out.
The Anonymous Widower 
Train arrival alerting capability to encourage people to NOT go to the platform too early?
Contrariwise, improvements for disabled access and support, including level boarding and a dedicated disabled waiting area (with disabled toilets readily at hand) with staff on hand to speed entry and exit to train.
Comment by MilesT | March 18, 2020 |
Those platforms really need an extra set of stairs for both end, staggered forward the existing ones, to direct passengers in a one way system, one for entrance (the new stairs) and one pair for exit, (the existing ones), end an extension of the waiting facilities, (ie as in the plans for p15-16)…
Comment by Daniel Altmann | March 20, 2020 |