Passenger lifts at stations question

[Barclay]

Hi folks

Does anyone know of any stations where passengers have to share lift facilities with goods (such as vehicles used to restock on-board catering facilties, etc)?

Many thanks

 

[Mojo]

At Birmingham New Street it is not uncommon to find yourself sharing a lift with a bin or catering trolleys although in many cases these use the GPO subway.

 

[philjo]

I have shared the lift with a catering trolley at Shrewsbury on several occasions.
I remember using the goods lift once as the passenger lift to the platform I needed was not working but can't recall which station it was. Possibly York?

But having a lift is a luxury - the lift at my local station hasn't worked for 20 years, so the only access to the platforms is via the staircase. It was one of those with the 2 sets of doors that you had to open/close manually & if the last person had left them open, you had to go up/downstairs to close them before you could call the lift.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Wimbledon is an interesting example, not just in the shared use of the lifts but also that they are tucked away at the back of the bridge behind the station shops!

 

[142094]

I have shared the lift with a catering trolley at Shrewsbury on several occasions.
I remember using the goods lift once as the passenger lift to the platform I needed was not working but can't recall which station it was. Possibly York?

They do indeed use them at York, most commonly for the TPE catering trolleys but at night they do use them to move the big blue bins around. Haven't been in a lift with a trolley or bin, but I've seen them used. Plus they use common sense and normally only use them away from peak times to move the bins.

 

[MidnightFlyer]

I have shared the lift with a catering trolley at Shrewsbury on several occasions.
I remember using the goods lift once as the passenger lift to the platform I needed was not working but can't recall which station it was. Possibly York?

But having a lift is a luxury - the lift at my local station hasn't worked for 20 years, so the only access to the platforms is via the staircase. It was one of those with the 2 sets of doors that you had to open/close manually & if the last person had left them open, you had to go up/downstairs to close them before you could call the lift.

Where's your local station then? . Not uncommon for the only one at Blackburn to be out of use nearly 50% of the time: its only about 5 years old!

 

[Aictos]

I have shared the lift with a catering trolley at Shrewsbury on several occasions.
I remember using the goods lift once as the passenger lift to the platform I needed was not working but can't recall which station it was. Possibly York?

But having a lift is a luxury - the lift at my local station hasn't worked for 20 years, so the only access to the platforms is via the staircase. It was one of those with the 2 sets of doors that you had to open/close manually & if the last person had left them open, you had to go up/downstairs to close them before you could call the lift.

Stevenage is like that, thankfully Hertford North aren't unless they're locked out of use especially at night.

 

[Kneedown]

Nottingham is another example. Passengers share lifts with Trolleys and supplies for the concourse shop and platform buffets.

 

[455driver]

Pedant mode-

But the TOCs only have to install lifts, it doesnt say that they have to work

Pedant mode off.

 

[philjo]

At my local station (Letchworth Garden City) in the days when the lifts worked there was a sign next to them saying "Passenger lift"
Then the sign was replaced by "Goods Lift" which somehow got BR/WAGN/FCC off the hook as they didn't have to do anything to them as they "were not for passenger use" as I was told several times.
After a lot of local protest & intervention from our MP, it was planned that the lifts would be replaced - I was told last year that the work would start Spring 2010- no sign of anything happening yet....