Monday 14 Dec 2009
ACCESS IMPROVEMENTS UNDERWAY AT HUDDERSFIELD STATION
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Passengers at Huddersfield station are set to benefit from a £2.3m investment in new lifts to improve access.
Network Rail has begun work to install two new lifts to provide step-free access links between the subway and platforms. They will also have CCTV and telephone links.
Richard Lungmuss, Route Director for Network Rail, said: “These new facilities will make station and platform access much easier for all passengers, including people with disabilities, those carrying heavy luggage or with pushchairs.
“This important funding has made it possible for us to carry out these vital station improvements that will make the railway open to more and more people. We will complete this work with the minimum of disruption to passengers.”
Edith Rodgers, customer services director of First TransPennine Express
added: “Easy access to the station and between platforms is vitally important for all passengers and these new lifts will be a major improvement, providing a much easier start and finish to thousands of journeys every year.”
Notes to editors
The Huddersfield project is being funded through the Department for Transport’s Access for All scheme and will be complete in summer 2010.
Access for All is a UK-wide, £370m ring-fenced fund for station accessibility improvements under the government’s ten-year Railways for All strategy. To date, 132 stations in England and Wales and 13 stations in Scotland have been chosen to have step-free access improvements.
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