0h, there s a post there. i think we go right round the post. so, to help people with impaired or no vision. we re coming up to the door. there s a sound of the echo. network rail has teamed up with the bristol sight loss council to create an audio guide, an audio map of bristol temple meads, available on a smartphone. the ticket barriers are white and gray branded. the left hand side of the ticket gate is for entering the station, and the right hand side is for exiting, so keep left as you go towards them. going through the gate. now it s telling us we re on platform three. and it s telling us to turn right, to go to the stairs of the subway. alan davis has helped to write the guide. it includes details that a sighted person might not think of. you ll walk up a very tiny slope and you ll feel the floor surface change from rough to smooth. so we re looking for the tactile, which the file is telling us about. alan and anila are putting the guide to the test the ticket barrier
it is time. dusted down now, definitely. thank you. if you ve ever made your way through a railway station at rush hour, you ll know how daunting it can be. bristol temple meads has become the first station in the uk to offer an audio guide to help blind and visually impaired passengers find their way around. breakfast s john maguire reports. the hustle and bustle of a busy mainline railway station is an assault on the senses. but what if, as you try to navigate your way around the platforms, the passengers and the people, you can hear everything, but see nothing? so if we start walking forward now, we re walking past the gate line. i m trying to knock somebody over. sorry, apologies. we re going against the flow, as well, aren t we? we re against the flow of people coming off the train. 0h, there s a wonderful fur coat there that i ve just brushed against it.
for people who haven t had the confidence to travel on their own, people who have thought they can t travel on their own, people who are just scared to travel on their own, i think it s going to be life changing for lots and lots of visually impaired people, but it s also going to change things for other people who don t have confidence. the guide, the first in the uk, was born out of the station s major refurbishment. in some places the physical layout has been altered, and this is a way to let passengers with a visual impairment know what has changed. please be aware that there are large scaffolding towers on the platform after you have passed through the main ticket gate, approximately six feet away immediately in front of you. but now, the ambition is to roll it out at other stations. we re now looking at paddington and looking at how we can develop, because if we can help people with visual impairments and visual problems get around paddington much better, that will be great f
0k. optimistic that ghana will qualify. ok. we don t have too long to wait. thank you very much, that is emmanuel agyemang badu, a former international footballer felt ghana. bristol temple meads has become the first railway station in the uk to offer an audio guide to help blind and visually impaired passengers find their way around. the guide includes the sounds and smells of the station as well as directions. john maguire reports. the hustle and bustle of a busy mainline railway station is an assault on the senses. but what if, as you try to navigate your way around the platforms, the passengers and the people, you can hear everything, but see nothing? so if we start walking forward now, we re walking past the gate line. i m trying to knock somebody over. sorry, apologies. we re going against the flow, as well, aren t we? we re against the flow of people coming off the train. oh, there s a wonderful fur coat there
that i ve just brushed against it. oh, there s a post there. i think we go right round the post. so, to help people with impaired or no vision. we re coming up to the door. there s a sound of the echo. ..network rail has teamed up with the bristol sight loss council to create an audio guide, an audio map of bristol temple meads, available on a smartphone. the ticket barriers - are white and grey branded. | the left hand side of the ticketj gate is for entering the station, and the right hand side i is for exiting, so keep left as you go towards them. going through the gate. now it s telling us we re on platform three. and it s telling us to turn right, to go to the stairs of the subway. alan davis has helped to write the guide. it includes details that a sighted person might not think of. you ll walk up a very tiny slope and you ll feel the floor surfacej change from rough to smooth. so we re looking for the tactile. alan and anila are putting the guide to the test the ticket