Work at St Pancras platforms A and B

[Tetchytyke]

How is the work being done at St. Pancras give trains are terminating and heading back north there?

The trains are all using the upstairs platforms.

 

[Bletchleyite]

(off topic) when did Network Rail go from keeping chuggers beyond their boundaries to allowing them to harass people on concourses

Dunno, but every time they inconvenience me (which is every time I see them as their whole modus operandi blocks passenger flow) I make a formal complaint, and encourage others to do so too.

 

[infobleep]

The hoarding is for material storage for installing the harrington humps. Unfortunately its only going in along the core so is going to cause issues.
Whereas as now wheelchair passengers have to come to us to ask for a ramp, and then we know they're on the train to call the destination station, once the humps are in people are going to get on without telling us, thinking they can get off at the other end and find they can't as their destination will have no idea they're coming causing them either to miss their stop or delay the train.

How much with it cost to install them at every station with step free access that a Thameslink train goes to? And those it will go to in the future?

 

[takno]

How much with it cost to install them at every station with step free access that a Thameslink train goes to? And those it will go to in the future?

If they aren't compatible with trains other than the 700s you probably can't install them at non-core stations however much you have to spend. The core can reasonably operate a restricted loading gauge, with wider or longer stock banned or limited to crawling through at low speed.

Level access in Liverpool is going to be done through a combination of a largely-dedicated network and pop-out filler things underneath the doors on the trains.

 

[spinba11]

It’s a shame they can’t put humps in at the airport stations at that would help a lot as people will be traveling with luggage.

 

[Supercoss]

work was completed during xmas day and boxing day no train period ready for Dec 27th where the low level platforms were available to turnback Thameslink services -
an additional (stairs) entrance exit onto Midland Road also to open soon to relieve platform congestion (existing fire escape made public area rather than new construction)

 

[ComUtoR]

Please delete

 

[185143]

Dunno, but every time they inconvenience me (which is every time I see them as their whole modus operandi blocks passenger flow) I make a formal complaint, and encourage others to do so too.

There's a good idea! If you have to go out of your way to avoid them-then they are causing an obstruction, and it needs dealing with. At Lime Street you can normally avoid them by turning immediately left after leaving the barriers (or arrive on a Virgin service which is guaranteed to use an unbarriered platform) though I've not seen any for a while now.. Merseyrail have tried it at Liverpool Central, they seemed to be doing little more than getting in the way of passengers leaving the station and thankfully, after that period, I've not seen it since-with the exception of poppy sellers and soldiers collecting for Help for Heroes, which was done in different places.

The worst cases of chugging I've seen was whilst crossing between the Glasgow stations, FIVE times they tried to stop me! One group in each station and the rest in the city centre...

 

[spinba11]

Is there anyone who can take a couple of photos at Farringdon (from the underground ticket hall/platforms) of the work taking place?

 

[Minstral25]

Why don't they make the whole platforms through the core level with the trains as only one type going through? Would be good for everyone with cases etc. instead of these silly humps in the middle.

 

[spinba11]

Cost.

 

[edwin_m]

Why don't they make the whole platforms through the core level with the trains as only one type going through? Would be good for everyone with cases etc. instead of these silly humps in the middle.

I suggested earlier that someone with mobility difficulties might board anywhere on the train at a core station and then find they can't alight at a non-core station because their door doesn't align with the hump.

 

[spinba11]

None core stations won’t have humps added.

 

[Supercoss]

St Pancras Low Level works;
https://twitter.com/13milepost/status/946108248221941761

 

[spinba11]

Thank you, I find the comment from trainspotter slightly offensive, I’ve tried to go from st Pancras to Blackfriars a number of times where I can’t find any staff to put the ramps down (very late at night around 11pm). Now with the humps installed I don’t need any assistance.

 

[Supercoss]

Access for all in the core is quite high on the list of operational items with very low platform 'dwell' time so regardless of if train is 8car/rlu or 12 car/flu the two doors marker with blue car side stripe will always be against the raised area
so car 4 and 5 on an 8 car set , cars 6 & 7 on a 12 car
an onboard wheelchair ramp is also carried in he TOSLW (car wih disabled accessible toilet)
which fits into two small lugs on door tread plate
http://bed-pan.homestead.com/class700ramo.JPG
http://bed-pan.homestead.com/class700rampLUG.JPG

But simply not enough time to deploy these (platform variety) within dwell time

 

[QueensCurve]

The modular platform humps are known as 'Harrington Humps' after first being installed at Harrington station, which is in the north of England.

Attached is a picture of the original hump at Harrington. These exist at almost all stations on the Barrow to Carlisle line. The platforms were fully rebuilt however at Ravenglass.

 

[FlippyFF]

The southbound hump at City Thameslink.