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The doors will open on your left as you face the front of the train. There is tactile paving along the edge of each platform.
We assume that you won't need to take the step-free route around the station. If you do, please follow the directions in the Change Platforms page.
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From Platform 1, Eastbound From Platform 2, Westbound |
There are two exits from this platform, one via the lift, the other via stairs.
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Via the Lift Via the Steps |
As you go from the front of the train, you pass the wall of the covered waiting area, jutting out. Go round this wall, turn right, continue to the wall in front of you then turn left and locate the lift, on your right.
From the rear of the train, you pass the waiting room before the wall retreats left into the covered waiting area. Turn left into this, continue to the wall in front of you then turn right and locate the lift, on your left.
Go down to the low (ticket office) level, leave via the other dorrs then continue to the wall in front of you. turn left then take the turning right, down the ramp, into the forecourt.
From the front of the train, you pass the wall of the covered waiting area jutting out. Continue, past this and the pillars supporting the canopy, till you reach the wall of the waiting room. Move right and continue through the door into the waiting room.
From the rear of the train, you reach the wall of the waiting room, which retreats into the covered area, turn left into this area, and go through the door on your left, into the waiting room.
Continue, down three steps, then down a flight of steps. turn right, go down a flight of steps then turn right again and go down another flight, to ticket office level. turn left (180 degrees) then go down five steps and continue, through the door onto Station Road.
There are three exits from this platform: the stepped exit to Back Station Road, the step-free exit to the car park and the stairs-only route via the subway, into the ticket office.
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To Back Station Road To the Car Park To the Ticket Office |
Go beyond the rear of the train, take the turning right and go down five steps. Follow the short path then take the turning left into Back Station Road. Note that there's only pavement on the left-hand side of this road.
From the front of the train, you pass the waiting room (the wall doesn't jut out) before the wall retreats into the path to the car park. Turn right and continue into the car park.
From the rear of the train, you pass the path to the car park before the wall of the waiting room juts out. turn left before this wall and continue into the car park.
From the front of the train, you pass the waiting room )the wall doesn't jut out) before the wall retreats into the path to the car park. Turn right here and go through the door on your right, into the waiting room.
From the rear of the train, you reach the wall of the waiting room jutting out. go through the door, towards the right-hand end of this wall, into the waiting room.
The steps to the subway are in front of you, there's a barrier between the right-hand side of the stairwell and the wall and a gap to the left, which is not of concern. Continue forward, down two flights of steps then turn right into the subway.
Note that this has a low ceiling, about two metres. Go through the subway into the ticket office and continue beyond the end of the wall on your right. From here, you can turn left and continue, down five steps to Station Road, or turn right into the passage then take the turning left, down the ramp into the forecourt.
© 2009, Terry Robinson