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Trivia: Non-accessible interchange stations

yorkie

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Does anyone have any examples of stations that could feasibly be used for interchanges, but where step-free access isn't possible, even by deploying a ramp, meaning that someone who requires step-free access would need to change somewhere that may not be the optimal according to standard journey planners?

Thanks in advance for any examples that anyone can provide :)
 
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Slightly cheating, but Bletchley can fall into that category if changing to/from the Marston Vale given Platform 6 doesn't have a lift. That can be mitigated for by replatforming the MV service from P6 to P5 though.

Hackney Downs when changing from a Southbound Chingford service to a Northbound Enfield Town or Cheshunt one. The alternative being to travel all the way into Liverpool Street and back.

Similar for changing between the Hertford Loop and Welwyn services at Alexandra Palace, where you need to change at Finsbury Park instead.
 

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Slightly cheating, but Bletchley can fall into that category if changing to/from the Marston Vale given Platform 6 doesn't have a lift. That can be mitigated for by replatforming the MV service from P6 to P5 though.

Hackney Downs when changing from a Southbound Chingford service to a Northbound Enfield Town or Cheshunt one. The alternative being to travel all the way into Liverpool Street and back.

Similar for changing between the Hertford Loop and Welwyn services at Alexandra Palace, where you need to change at Finsbury Park instead.
Those are great examples, and exactly the sort of thing I'm after, thanks!

If anyone has any more, that would be great!
 

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Tyseley. No step free access between platforms to enable travel from the North Warks Line to the Chiltern Mainline.

Passengers would need to change at Small Heath or Birmingham Moor St and as far as i am aware journey planners dont alway account for it.
 

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Are you counting the London Underground? If so, Euston to Waterloo's a route where the plausible accessible options I can think of are a bus, with the least bad Tube option I can think of being double-backing to Northwick Park(!)* (itself needing getting from Euston to Euston Square) and then changing at Finchley Road. The other direction doesn't look much better (I think changing at Bank, and Moorgate or King's Cross St. Pancras for Euston Square due to Euston Tube station not having any step-free entrance, and Euston Square westbound only).

*The accessible Tube map has it rather than Preston Road highlighted despite both being single island platforms, which might be down to gaps between platforms and trains.

I think that's a case where the (shortest) minimum connection time of 50 minutes wouldn't be sufficient. Using the TfL journey planner suggestion and removing buses as an option (due to Maltese cross tickets not being valid), it suggests at least 49 minutes northbound (changing at Green Park, King's Cross St. Pancras and Euston Square) and 65 minutes southbound (I misread the map at first and it's 'only' necessary to go as far as Wembley Park for an accessible change).

Clapham Junction and Willesden Junction seem more accessible, so avoiding the Tube altogether could be a desirable option.
 
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Earlestown -- Platform1 or Platform 5 to any other platform - where use of at least one footbridge is needed.
 

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