Lawrence Hill Step-Free Access: Supporting the devolved transport agenda

The Lawrence Hill Step-Free Access project will make a busy suburban Bristol station accessible for users with mobility challenges and easier to navigate for rail users with children, heavy luggage or shopping. The design/build project, delivered by Octavius, sees a new lift providing step-free access to platform 2 for the first time. A new deck […]

Modular Construction: The Great AfA Enabler

Access for All (AfA) schemes present many practical difficulties for engineers, designers and project managers. Sites are usually small and constrained with limited access to platforms. Despite these challenges, stations need to remain functional while work is carried out. Disruptions and closures have to be kept to the absolute minimum. It’s hard to imagine a […]

We Believe In Rail, Which Is Why We Love Delivering AfA Projects

The National Travel Survey 2021 found that people with a ‘mobility difficulty’ made on average 2 rail trips per year. Others, without mobility issues, made an average of 14 trips per year (Department for Transport).  What does that usage gap tell us? Essentially it tells us there are millions of people who feel excluded from […]

AfA: The Past, Present and Future Of Accessible Rail Transport

The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 made it illegal to discriminate against people with disabilities when providing goods, services, facilities or employment. A rail network, much of which dated from Victorian times and which was difficult for many people to access, inevitably came into focus. The result was the Access for All (AfA) programme. Formally launched […]