Chatham 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.
Chatham station is on the list.
These pictures show the station.
This Google Map shows the station.
Note.
- The station building is above the tracks.
- There are two staircases from the building to each platform.
- The platforms are reasonably wide.
It might not be an easy station to provide full step-free access.
Installing Step-Free Access
This Google Map shows the Eastern side of the station building.
You can just see the stairs at the back of the building.
In stations with similar layouts, Network Rail have built new stairs and lift structures, like these at New Cross Gate station.
Could something similar be squeezed in at Chatham station?
It would be difficult but podssible, in a station that handles nearly three million passengers per year.
Chatham Station
Chatham station is one of the stations, that could be important to a proposed South London Outer Orbital .
The proposal says that two trains per hour (tph) could go to the Medway Towns.
These are pictures I took of the station, as I passed through.
As I said in Gillingham Station, up to nine trains per hour (tph), could call at all three Medway towns of Rochester, Chatham and Gillingham, so all Chatham station needs to be is a quality two-platform station able to handle twelve-car trains every six or so minutes.
I’m certain Chatham station is up to that!
The Anonymous Widower 