https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/hs2-unable-to-confirm-level-boarding-accessibility-at-1-6bn-old-oak-common-12-09-2024/ Civil engineering and construction news and jobs from New Civil Engineer Fri, 13 Sep 2024 13:59:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0 https://www.newcivilengineer.com/wp-content/themes/mbm-mops-2017/images/logo.gif https://www.newcivilengineer.com 125 75 Civil engineering and construction news and jobs from New Civil Engineer https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/hs2-unable-to-confirm-level-boarding-accessibility-at-1-6bn-old-oak-common-12-09-2024/#comment-4893 Fri, 13 Sep 2024 13:59:07 +0000 https://www.newcivilengineer.com/?p=283444#comment-4893 The fundamental problem here is the lack of a consistent level boarding strategy for the rail network. OOC’s non-HS2 platforms will have a mix of trains with different boarding heights. There is simply no ‘correct’ height to set the platforms at to provide level boarding. The Elizabeth line ‘solved’ this by using non-standard platform heights, but this creates problems for the future as you then have a further problem of different platform heights.

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