West Anglia Inners - Station Improvements

waysider did you ever get around to uploading them? Do you have a flikr account?

I think you can use social media accounts to set-up accounts on flickr and such, but its not a necessity. I would use a computer though instead of a mobile device.

Pics, please!

That's not West Anglia.

Bethnal green is gated, waysider covered the station on this thread

It's now a significantly longer walk between the town centre and the northbound platforms, if I'm understanding things right. There is no realistic proposition of gating the subway entrances to the platforms, but retaining it as an access route between the platforms would have been rather useful at least.

The Highams Park change is very retrogressive. I can see no reason for it. It's the natural way to get out from the down platform to the shops, Tesco, bus stops etc. TFL have just reopened an ungated exit at nearby Buckhurst Hill (hurrah); is Highams park that much more lawless than BH?
The formalisation of the other exit from the down platform through what was once the gate to the goods yard is remarkable, as it was a "passenger made" exit, not an official one, in the 80s when it began!

Not exactly a passenger friendly location!

I know this isn't an W.Anglian location, but a month later I stumbled across a uncovered 710 stop board on Twitter, the same ones will be unveiled in time on W.Anglia.






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i notice new ticket machine on right side on photos

I'm sure I read somewhere that TfL are wanting to increase the service frequencies out of Liverpool Street, and indeed are working on it, but it's not something that can be done overnight.

It looks rather too tight to fit a gateline given the staircase position and the need for a ticket machine. You need to have adequate run off space and it doesn't exist.

TfL have tended to add new buildings / enclosures at station entrances to add gates. From photos on here they've added buildings at Bethnal Green and Turkey Street. Enclosures have been added on the GOBLIN - Leyton Midland Rd, Wanstead Park, Woodgrange Park - to provide a weatherproof shelter for gates. In some places existing buildings just had the gates added - Walthamstow Central, St James St, Wood St.

I've not used the intermediate stops on the Enfield / Cheshunt route so don't know what's been done there. I keep expecting to see some sort of structure for gates to be added at Silver Street but it's possible TfL / Network Rail don't own / lease enough of the land at the bottom of the station steps there. Strikes me as a good location to add them as it's pretty busy.

TfL do intend or at least intended to gate LF but it would mean closing the back entrance which Hackney Council fought for years to have opened. So at the moment its stalemate as TfL argue with LBH.

Can confirm Southbury has a gate line. Top of the stairs serving as one gate line for both platforms