Railway engineer, writer and host of #Railnatter podcast has recently published How the railways will fix the future (details below)

Interestingly for the issues that are so pressing at Chinley, Gareth Dennis is also co-founder of the Campaign for Level Boarding.

This campaign describes its aims as follows:

"The Campaign for Level Boarding is an unofficial network of disabled rail users, railway engineers and other industry professionals, seeking to use their combined experience and knowledge to revolutionise rail travel and improve safety for everyone.

The key asks of the campaign are to:

• Establish a procurement standard for all new trains to be “low-floor”, with extendable gap fillers, to match the platform height
• Begin a rolling programme of platform improvements to bring all platforms up to the existing UK standard (915mm height, 730mm offset)
• Agree a target of 2040 to achieve level boarding across the UK rail network.

How the railways will fix the future, Gareth Dennis, published by Repeater; 1st edition 12/11/2024, ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1915672481 (Amazon review here)

#Railnatter details here