Step-free access at London station reaches major milestone

Step-free access at London station reaches major milestone

Work to provide step-free access at Wandsworth Town has reached a major milestone, with the completion of sinking piles for the station’s new lifts.

Passengers at Wandsworth Town can use the station’s island platform again after months of changes to where the trains stop.

Engineers have finished the foundation work for new lifts which will provide step free access to every platform. The £19.8 million project also includes a second entrance on Odyssey Way. Step free access is expected to be ready next summer.

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Major milestone reached to provide step-free access at Wandsworth Town station

Piling work for Wandsworth Town’s new lifts is complete, paving the way for improved accessibility at the station, with trains now once again calling at the station’s island platform Collaboration between track and train has completed this important phase of the programme and kept customers moving  The £19.8 million project will deliver new lifts serving all platforms and a new  station entrance on Odyssey Way, with step-free access expected in …