‘Appendix B’ is a get-out clause allowing Network Rail to avoid providing accessibility in the vast majority of station refurbs. If there’s a step-free station within 50 km (!!) they only have to create ‘passive provision’ for lifts to be fitted in the future. I think we know how that’ll work out.
As Chair of the ‘Bedfordshire Rail Access Network’, I was recently contacted by Network Rail as part of a public consultation into replacing the (inaccessible) station footbridge at Har…
