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Calling all users of Peckham Rye station. This is the busiest interchange station in the entire country without step free access to platforms or accessible facilities for passengers. It is also now dangerously overcrowded at times. Even with the reduction in rail travel during Covid-19 the station remains overcrowded at times. Network Rail now has the go ahead from the Government to spend the money to redesign the station interior and platforms as necessary to make it step free and reduce overcrowding.


They have set up a quarterly zoom public meeting to be updated on the design work as they look for solutions. The first meeting was this evening. The next one is on 13th January 6pm-8pm. It will be good if people who use the station can sign up for updates and get to the meetings. They are keen for feedback on the ideas.

Email [email protected] to get on the mail list.


i am starting this thread to let people know and also to encourage station users to share views about the ststion and how it can be improved for access and stopping overcrowding. More info:


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info: https://www.networkrail.co.uk/running-the-railway/our-routes/kent/kent-and-south-east-london-railway-upgrade-plan/peckham-rye-station-redevelopment

It?s very overcrowded and those stairs/passages are like something from a sixties Soviet film. The exterior is lovely and I?m glad it?s been revamped to an extent but the immediate environs are dystopic ? makes me think of Quatermass and the Pit. It?s doubly bad if you?re disabled, infirm, with kids or dogs. I hope it?ll chsnge for the better soon.

Eileen Wrote:

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> Calling all users of Peckham Rye station. This is

> the busiest interchange station in the entire

> country without step free access to platforms or

> accessible facilities for passengers. It is also

> now dangerously overcrowded at times. Even with

> the reduction in rail travel during Covid-19 the

> station remains overcrowded at times. Network Rail

> now has the go ahead from the Government to spend

> the money to redesign the station interior and

> platforms as necessary to make it step free and

> reduce overcrowding.

>

> They have set up a quarterly zoom public meeting

> to be updated on the design work as they look for

> solutions. The first meeting was this evening. The

> next one is on 13th January 6pm-8pm. It will be

> good if people who use the station can sign up for

> updates and get to the meetings. They are keen for

> feedback on the ideas.

> Email [email protected] to get

> on the mail list.

>

> i am starting this thread to let people know and

> also to encourage station users to share views

> about the ststion and how it can be improved for

> access and stopping overcrowding. More info:

>

> Follow Twitter @NetworkRailSE

> info:

> https://www.networkrail.co.uk/running-the-railway/

> our-routes/kent/kent-and-south-east-london-railway

> -upgrade-plan/peckham-rye-station-redevelopment


This is great news, thanks for the heads up.

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