A £6 million refurbishment of Hither Green station aimed at improving lighting and cover for passengers is complete. The works include the refurbishment of the platforms, installation of new lighting and removing and replacing the old timber canopy on Platform 2 and 3 with a tubular steel glass one, as well as work to improve the station buildings and footbridges. New tactile strips, which help blind people tell how close they are to the platform edge, have also been installed. A report earlier this year concluded that absence of tactile strips at Eden Park station in Bromley was a “possible causal factor” in the death of a blind man who fell on the tracks in 2020.
£6m refurbishment of Hither Green station completed providing more convenience to passengers post-lockdown
A £6m refurbishment of one of London’s busiest suburban stations, Hither Green, has now been completed.
The works included the refurbishment of the platforms, rewiring all the electrics in the station and replacing all the lighting, removing and replacing the old timber canopy on Platform 2 and 3 with a tubular steel glass one, as well as work to improve the station buildings and footbridges.
The station is a busy one, serving 3.3 million passengers a year in normal times. These passengers will now be able to enjoy brighter lighting and shelter from the weather under new glass canopies, along with resurfaced platforms and new tactile strips to help visually impaired passengers.
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Tunbridge Wells to Tonbridge railway closed until February 20 for landslip repairs in High Brooms
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Updated: 14:15, 05 February 2021
A railway line between Tunbridge Wells and Tonbridge will be closed for another two weeks while engineers carry out emergency landslip repairs, Network Rail has announced.
The line between Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells will be closed until February 20. Picture: Network Rail
A full closure was put in place which they expected to last until February 2, but now engineers say more work is needed to permanently fix and protect the 150 metre stretch.
The line will now re-open on Saturday, February 20.
Fiona Taylor, Network Rail Route Director for Kent, said: âIâm so sorry weâre having to put passengers in this position.
Ben Houchen by Platform 2 at Middlesbrough station TEES Valley Mayor Ben Houchen today (Monday) revealed that direct trains between Middlesbrough and London will return by the end of this year, as work gets under way on the station’s £34million upgrade. In order to allow for more services and the longer LNER Azuma trains that run on the East Coast Main Line to the capital, platform 2 is being extended with construction work set to be complete by May, ahead of the restoration of the direct London service in December. Mr Houchen visited the station to see first-hand how the scheme was progressing which, just a year ago, was still a design on a page. Since then, the Mr Houchen and the Combined Authority have been working with Network Rail to significantly speed up the delivery of the improvements.