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Sure, I know these kinds of things can be done at some stations. I guess I am thinking about stations where none of these options are available. My two closest ones happen to be examples. So for people entirely dependent on the lifts, many journeys simply become impossible to do by train if...

This is very well written. The difficulty is communicating all these arguments in an easy to understand way, to regular passengers, because most of them aren't starting from a point of understanding how things currently work, or exactly how they are changing. To them the fares system is already...

I don't see a reason why they wouldn't.

Well, that's good to hear.

It would be interesting to know what this is being done instead of. It's tempting to wonder whether decisions are based on what makes for the best PR on handover to GBR, or on what provides most benefit in the long term.

I imagine on cruise liners they have some redundancy, that is, they aren't totally reliant on one single lift to get between two decks. This is the problem with station lifts ... there's often no redundancy at all (understandably to some extent due to limited space) 1788376566 They say where...

From a bit of reading around, it seems that the problem with fixing lifts is that they can come from a multitude of companies, some of those companies disappear during the lifespan of the lifts, and even when they don't, they don't keep a stock of spare parts because of the cost of doing so. And...

This doesn't seem to work in my browser. I did, when i first looked at it, wonder if some of the red periods were overnight but had no way of checking. Of course if lifts are unavailable when the station's not open, then this affects the picture, they may even be deliberate maintenance...

How are you getting the detail on time of day etc? The website doesn't seem to offer this to me.

The 30 day availability may improve, yes, or it may get worse again - we can't say. Maybe it will suffer another multi-day failure in Spetember, maybe it won't. I deliberately said "on average". The current 7 day availability, which doesn't include that long term failure is currently at 90%...

This may be true, but it just means that the lift needs to be specified appropriately for its intended use. Obviously a station lift is generally going to have to be more robust than one in a retail setting, for the reasons you give.

It was painted in triple grey for ESH. Now (only a few months later) it has been repainted into the new EPR livery. It's a full repaint not just sticking some decals on top. You can see from the colour of the posts between the front and side cab windows which were yellow but are now the base...

I've discovered there's a website that monitors station lift availability: https://stationlifts.org.uk It lets you see the history up to a year ago. The results for my two stations are pretty poor: https://stationlifts.org.uk/DMK/history https://stationlifts.org.uk/HNH/history Of course I...

It feels to me much more likely that a station lift will be out of service, than one in a retail store. Finding a lift out of order at a shop is pretty rare. On the other hand, finding one or more of the lifts out of action at my two nearest stations with lifts, both with annual exits/entries...

Lots of people rely on lifts to make journeys possible, so I would say they are a critical part of the rail infrastructure. But it feels to me like a lift failure is not really treated as an urgent situation. Lifts, it seems, can sometimes be out of action for days. So, what actually happens...

I think it must be near enough finished - none of that machinery seemed to be doing anything when I took the photo - in fact there was hardly any activity obvious anywhere on site.

I think the "rebuilt" bit on the upside is the area where they seemed to have dumped a load of aggregate to make a sort of access ramp during the works. You can see that it doesn't extend all the way to the overbridge (to the left in this view) where the suspected rail buckle ocurred. I think on...

Here's what the site looks like this afternoon. This is a photo of the site from an elevated position. There is not much happening on the site.

Thanks for this, a good reminder that it wasn't as simple a story as Gateway opening and taking away trade.

I wonder if we will ever see intermodal by rail from Thamesport again, or whether that's been thoroughly killed off by London Gateway.