• Access for All

  • New bridge installed overnight at Hooton railway station  

    On Schedule

    We’re putting in new lifts, footbridges, installing handrails and tactile platform paving.


    Schemes delivered nationally include Huddersfield, Exeter Central, Lewisham and Middlesborough. Further schemes are planned at Abergavenney, Bridgend, Long Eaton, Letchworth Garden City and Perth, Scotland.


    Work carried out will cause no interruptions to passenger journeys.
    The work is essential to provide growing transport needs now and in the future.

  • Improved accessibility

    Step free access stations have lifts or ramps so that passengers don't have to use escalators or stairs.

    Easier access to key stations

    Wheel chair users, people with mobility issues, parents with pushchairs, assistance dogs and passengers with heavy or awkward luggage will now find using key stations easier.

     

    On trains, off roads

    Our work is attracting even more people onto the railway and taking them off our busy roads. We want to deliver real benefits, making journeys more comfortable and easier.

    Project timeline

    We're working to complete these improvements on schedule. View our project timeline.

     
     

  • Image gallery

    Network Rail - Upgraded footbridge at Sutton Coldfield Large
     

    Official opening at Pitsea with Julian Drury C2C, Stephen Metcalfe MP and Sean Cronin, NR

    Network Rail - Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP viewing new lifts and upgraded footbridge at Sutton Coldfield large
     

    Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP viewing new lifts and upgraded footbridge at Sutton Coldfield

    New footbridge and two lifts at Canterbury West railway station
     

    New footbridge and two lifts at Canterbury West railway station

    New bridge installed overnight at Hooton railway station
     

    New bridge installed overnight at Hooton railway station

    Completed footbridge and lifts at Hooton station
     

    Completed footbridge and lifts at Hooton station

     
    Completed footbridge and lifts at Staines station
     

    Completed footbridge and lifts at Staines station

    Start of work at Blackburn station with Rt Hon Jack Straw MP(2)
     

    Start of work at Blackburn station with Rt Hon Jack Straw MP

    Opening event at Grimsby station with Austin Mitchell MP(2)
     

    Opening event at Grimsby station with Austin Mitchell MP

    Mark Hunter MP testing the new lifts at Cheadle Hulme station
     

    Mark Hunter MP testing the new lifts at Cheadle Hulme station

    Jack Straw MP opening platform 4 at Blackburn Large
     

    Jack Straw MP opening platform 4 at Blackburn station

     
    Wellingborough AfA lift and footbridge Large
     

    Wellingborough AfA lift and footbridge

     

  • External sites

    More detailed information on the Government’s Railways for All Strategy can be found on the Department for Transport and Transport Scotland websites.

  • Completed projects

    Find out how Access for All projects are transforming our stations: