Maidenhead Main Line Platform 2/3 edge barriers

[XCTurbostar]

Since when has this station had platform barriers in the middle of the island? It looks like a newer installation but all the gates are locked open.

Can anyone shed any light on this?

 

[CarltonA]

The barriers have been installed a few weeks ago but the gates were only installed recently and not yet put into use.

 

[mathmo]

It was installed in the last few months. There's also one in Slough, installed at a similar sort of time. Before last year's GWR timetable change there would have been quite a few fast services at peak times using those platforms but now they generally don't, which is probably why they only got the barriers much later than many of the smaller stations.

 

[Melancholia]

That leaves Didcot Parkway as the last station without platform barriers on the GWR network, where trains regularly pass at 125mph with passengers on the platform.

There's of course Chippenham too, but all trains stop there, unless there's diversions in place.

 

[Taunton]

The ones at Slough were installed a while ago, probably during lockdown. I believe on this stretch they are all as much for avoidance of intentional acts as much as for safety of passing passengers, particularly after the inquest into a particularly appalling incident at Slough some years ago.

Notably the automated PA announcements tied to the approaching track circuits at the various stations, the previous mitigation, have not been changed, and still constantly boom out across the station to stand clear at platform x, despite these main line ones now being locked off.

 

[stuving]

Notably the automated PA announcements tied to the approaching track circuits at the various stations, the previous mitigation, have not been changed, and still constantly boom out across the station to stand clear at platform x, despite these main line ones now being locked off.

But then, the core stations on the Elizabeth Line have always had those announcements too - despite the low speeds of the (out of service) trains, and being in a space custom-designed for gated access to trains that doesn't look much like a platform and has nothing you could point to and say "look - that's a dangerous platform edge"!

 

[XCTurbostar]

The barriers have been installed a few weeks ago but the gates were only installed recently and not yet put into use.

Thanks, the gates were in use but had no stickers to say how to use them. The staff didn't seem too concerned that they were open and didnt close them whilst I was there.

It was installed in the last few months. There's also one in Slough, installed at a similar sort of time. Before last year's GWR timetable change there would have been quite a few fast services at peak times using those platforms but now they generally don't, which is probably why they only got the barriers much later than many of the smaller stations.

There are still a few peak time 387s that use those platforms (1708 and 1739) hence why I was a bit confused that they needed to be installed here.

Notably the automated PA announcements tied to the approaching track circuits at the various stations, the previous mitigation, have not been changed, and still constantly boom out across the station to stand clear at platform x, despite these main line ones now being locked off.

The Maidenhead Platform 1 and 2 announcements are definitely turned off. At Ealing Broadway, they are still on.