How can it be compliant a wheelcahir user can't just rock up and board without assistance which I thought was more preferable than having ramps which take longer to deploy and then remove, especially on a tight section of the ECML.
Because it's a standard height platform. The platform cannot in general be higher than that because it would risk people having to step down into the train from the platform if it did. It may also be out of gauge.
As gimmea50anyday notes, the floor height difference is contained within the step at the door, not at a ramp (except for walking through the corridor to or from the driving vehicles).
I've been remembering the corridors to the gangways then
The level boarding interface with 700s in the Thameslink core is only at the centre of the train, where the wheelchair area doors are. It’s still a hump, but a properly installed one. The rest of the platform is lower.
This is true, although the main reason for that at at pancras is that other platforms that the trains stop out would not be able to have level boarding across their whole length. There's no point a wheelchair user getting themselves on at the end of the train and then finding they can't get themselves off at their destination.
Indeed. But it's still doubtful if even those could have been used if multiple different types of train needed to serve those platforms.
Did they actually wait and only install them once the various Electrostars had gone?
I seem to remember there was a bit of a gap between changing over to 700 only and the raised sections being installed.
Does anyone know the exact date and time of this working (I'm guessing it was Tuesday 22nd or the morning of Wednesday 23rd Feb) and which unit was involved (impossible to make it out in the photo)?I love the quote from the Leader of SBC. If only if it were that simple.
First train in more than half a century stops at Reston ahead of station's reopening
A nine-car Azuma from Edinburgh has become the first train to stop at Reston...planetradio.co.uk
First train in more than half a century stops at Reston ahead of station's reopening
Video displays as "private"
Works fine for me.
It simply said this video is unavailable for me 45 minutes ago, but now it's working.
Working now, but was displaying as "private" when I posted previously.
No pub, according to Google you’ll need to walk about 4 miles…
Oh well, will chose a nice day for a walk.
There’s no XC calls in the May timetable as far as RTT is showing. Looks as if the consultation has been ignored regarding that point. Wasn’t the intended TPE service yet to be decided when the consultation was published?
Either that or a bus every 2 hours to Ayton. Don't miss the one back though.
A 5 mile return trip to the Craw Inn, Auchencrow? Winner of Best Pub in the Borders, 2019!
Someone mentioned further back that there was a bus to Eyemouth.
I see there's a Preston to the north of Duns so maybe 'Reston for Preston'?
This is drifting off topic, but the Thameslink platforms aren't all straight- the St Pancras ones are for much of their length but have a surprisingly sharp curve at the south end. Farringdon they're neither straight nor level! But the low speed speed part does apply (slab track too, I think, which helps)
