Britain's aging railway stations set many challenges for their owners and operators, and work is being carried out throughout the country to make sure they are fit for purpose for the twenty-first century.

Some need to be enlarged, or at least have their capacity increased, to handle the ever-growing number of passengers using today's railways. The work at Birmingham New Street is a good example of this.

Others simply need rebuilding and repairs as one hundred and fifty years of use have taken their toll on the structure of the Victorian buildings.

Victoria, Paddington and Edinburgh Waverley are high-profile examples of this, and we have reported on all of them.


But many more just need to be brought up-to-date. When they were built, DDA regulations were unknown, but now even the smallest station has to be made to comply. Network Rail’s Access For All scheme is doing important work in installing lifts in footbridges, but there are other important aspects of the legislation that have to be addressed.

Surface Mounted Tactile Paving

One obvious feature is the installation of tactile strips towards the edges of platforms. These can now be seen in many stations and are a series of offset lumps that warns the visually-impaired of the proximity of the platform edge. Visul Systems is one of the leading manufacturers of these strips and they have retro-fitted many platforms on both the London Underground and the national rail network.

For further information please Contact:

VISUL SYSTEMS

Kingston House

3 Walton Road

Pattinson North

Washington

Tyne & Wear

NE38 8QA

United Kingdom

Tel: +44(0)191 402 1960

Fax: +44(0)191 402 1906

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