Lichfield TV Platform 3 Closure

[pdeaves]

That's interesting - how was it advertised? Did it just go out of the station and reverse back in via points or a siding?

I suspect (but have no first hand knowledge) that it was in reality permission to use a train to somewhere with non-step facility and catch another one back (which 'should' take the user to a different platform than where they started).

 

[87015]

I suspect (but have no first hand knowledge) that it was in reality permission to use a train to somewhere with non-step facility and catch another one back (which 'should' take the user to a different platform than where they started).

It was the 08 and a coach/van doing shunts as required on request.

 

[pdeaves]

It was the 08 and a coach/van doing shunts as required on request.

Fair enough. I guess this was a long time ago!

 

[snowball]

There's a picture of the underside of the platform in the June Modern Railways, page 23.

 

[Bevan Price]

How about Coventry when the lifts were being renewed? Not a bus, but a train between platforms for anyone who couldn't use the steps.

There was a similar Class 08 shuttle at Doncaster many years ago; intended mainly for wheelchairs, etc., but enthusiasts were not turned away. I vaguely remember it possibly being due to a lift being out of action.

 

[shipbiulder101]

According to station staff it should reopen on Sunday wether this is just as an overpass or as a platform was not said.

 

[Liam L]

According to station staff it should reopen on Sunday wether this is just as an overpass or as a platform was not said.

Cross city services will be serving the station again.

Realtime Trains | Departures from Lichfield Trent Valley all day on 05/06/2022

Train information at Lichfield Trent Valley all day on 05/06/2022. From Realtime Trains, an independent source of train running info for Great Britain.

www.realtimetrains.co.uk

 

[norbitonflyer]

There was a similar Class 08 shuttle at Doncaster many years ago; intended mainly for wheelchairs, etc., but enthusiasts were not turned away. I vaguely remember it possibly being due to a lift being out of action.

I have seen a photo of a D27xx North British shunter on similar duties - I forget where. A wagon was used, mainly to carry parcels trollies etc across whilst the barrow crossong was being replaced, but it seems the odd perambulator also got the rare haulage!

 

[snowball]

This press release has been up since Wednesday

Platform repairs complete at Lichfield Trent Valley station

Rail services are returning to normal at Lichfield Trent Valley station following the completion of platform repair work.

www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk

Rail services are returning to normal at Lichfield Trent Valley station following the completion of platform repair work.

Platform 3 at the station had been temporarily closed for safety reasons, meaning Cross City line trains have been unable to call at the station for several weeks.

However, after Network Rail completed the installation of a temporary support structure the platform has now reopened and Cross City line services are able to call at the station once again from Sunday 5 June.

The completion of the work also means passenger access between Platforms 1 and 2 for West Coast Main Line services will be restored.

 

[rower40]

How about Coventry when the lifts were being renewed? Not a bus, but a train between platforms for anyone who couldn't use the steps.

During a previous rebuild of Derby (Not the 2018 resignalling, but something back in the 1980s or 1990s), when the subway was out-of-use, and there weren't any lifts back then, a DMU was stabled in Derby platform 5 (then a bay platform) to convey Post Office BRUTE trolleys, wheelchairs (and their occupants), and bikes from one platform to another.
Just a phone call from station staff to PSB, and it all got arranged.